Web sharing/Apache not working

Question

My web sharing doesn't seem to be working.
When I have it enabled in the Sharing panel of the System Preferences, I try to click on the link
My Computer's Website
http://myIPaddress
I get an error message, in both Safari and Firefox, saying that I cannot make a connection to the server. This is similar to other threads in this section except for the following:
- I do have a /var/log/apache2 directory
- I did a chmod 755 on the directory
- the directory is empty
- http://localhost does not work
when I look through a list of my tasks (on the Activity Monitor), I don't see anything related to apache so I'm wondering if my Web Sharing has not initiated the apache server.
I'm running 10.5.6 on a PowerBook G4.
Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

You shouldn't see any apache items in Activity Monitor. I've got web sharing on, and I see a bunch of httpd processes in Activity Monitor. Try repairing permissions on your hard drive. Also, look for some config files located in /etc/apache2/. I see the following files/folders in there on my machine:
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 442 Nov 24 2007 extra
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17684 Jan 27 07:21 httpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12958 Nov 24 2007 magic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28782 Nov 24 2007 mime.types
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Aug 13 2008 original
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Nov 24 2007 other
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Aug 13 2008 users