Localhost not accessible

[Adam McGreggor]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:06:55PM +0200, Ben Schonle wrote:

[...]

> # Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path.
> #
> ServerRoot "/etc/apache2"
> ServerName "localhost"

[...]

> Thus I tried the following changes on 
> */etc/apache2/sites-available/default:
> *
> 1) Document Root /var/www/apache2-default
> 2) Directory /var/www/apache2-default
> 3) removing the   # from   #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
> 
> However, I was not successful.
> 
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> Does anybody know how to make accessing localhost work? or point me to 
> some tutorial that is addressing the issue?
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

I'd revert the "Directory" directive to point to /etc/apache2, and
restart Apache.

That should do it.

You might find tail'ing your Apache error log useful, if it don't work.

  grep -R ErrorLog /etc/apache2/*
  
should give you the path: ISTR apache2 does split-file config (which,
seasoned list members may remember I hate): something else annoys me
about Apache 2 (can't remember what); I use 1.3x.

The Apache docs (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/) are well written, imo.