Web Sharing broke

I've been using Web Sharing with php enabled to work on my webpage. Lately my macbook lost power and when I booted it back up the server seems to have stopped working. I've tried restarting, turning off web sharing and turning it back on. typing "sudo apachectl restart" in the terminal. It looks like everything is ok until I actually go to view the page. Chrome says that it could not connect to the IP. I can't access any of the files in my "Sites" folder.
Is there any way to reset the apache server? or even find some kind of info on what the error is?

Figured it out. silly mistake. My local IP had changed when I restarted.

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    NOt that I am aware of - I may have tried to do something like launch the apache index page from httpd or similar in the first couple of days of owning the machine but unless by some sure accident I have not altered any settings.... ( I never got into admin settings or any of that from what I remember)
    I'm not even looking for PHP or mySQL now - Just a running WS so that I can test CSS in it.
    Even so - I still have absolutely no idea where the pws taller is located on the installation disk that I am referred to so therefore am not willing to unstall it for reasons mentioned. I most certainly do not want a reinstall for the sake of a little but in my case neccessary application
    Good point Gnarlodious - like to hear what angle you are coming from on this (particularly if you can help me get this sorted out from the disk as Apple suggest. Much as I love my conversion to apple I have to say the documentation and overall support from the site is appalling (I thought Microsoft was bad......). Instructions such as that encountered on the PWS toggle are vague to say the very least
    Thanks for the reply

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