Local host not wroking

Question

My webSharing is no longer working, I always get a "Safari can’t connect to the server." error message when using http://localhost/, http://127.0.0.1 or the address in the network preference.
Apache seems to be running and is not showing any error message when doing an apachectl configtest.
What's wrong ?
Also is there a way to revert the network address to the default of 127.0.0.1 ?
Where do I do it ?
Thanks in advance for any info.

Answer 1

Ouch - i had a couple of typos in there - sorry about that.
I can't edit it for some reason, so let me repost correctly:
It may be a stale lock file if it thinks it's running but isn't binding to the port (may not actually be running).
Try this:
sudo apachectl stop
ls /var/log/apache2
... see what files are in there. Should just be a start log and an error log. If you see a lock file, remove it (sudo rm /var/log/apache2/filename).
If not, then open a second terminal window and run:
sudo tail -f /var/log/apache2/error_log
and in the first try starting apache back up (sudo apachectl start).
See if any errors are showing up.
Finally, see if it's in the process list:
ps -aef | grep -i http
Michael