I have broken default website on moutain lion server

Hi.
I am not sure how I did it exactly but do take full responsibility.
I switched on Website from server.app and all was well. I got the greating, nice globe, the lot.
However, I am now getting (from a browser) unable to connect, as if no website/server exisits.
I have rebooted, stopped and started from GUI, and command line.
Everything looks like it is working but no webpage.
I even created a simple index html to say hello world and place this in the document root. Nothing.
So, where do I start looking, there must be a log file somewhere? Right.
Thanks
Lee
The reason I was playing with websites is I intend to load Roundcube Webmail but this may be difficult without a working apache server!

OK and this get strange now...
I left it alone for a while. As you do...Honest no poking...
And the localhost now displays It Works!
Which is good enough for me but seems a bit tempermental plus where did the pretty MAC SERVER page go ?

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