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Default localhost settings

Hi there,

Over the past few weeks I have been trying to learn about building a LAMP server and followed countless tutorials. However it has made a little mess of my system, as I can no longer access localhost from a browser. I am suspecting it is /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf that I changed, and although I can see what I have changed, I have no idea what it said originally. I then tried something that I found online about recovering default set up files using dpkg which also did not work so now I have nothing. I want to go back to the default html page, whilst currently I am now stuck at a 404, which makes learning a little on the tricky side.

Is there an easy way to reset all this without actually reinstalling the whole operating system. This is on a raspberry pi, so there is nothing really important on there, but it would be nice to know what is happening and how to revert changes.

Kind regards
iFunc

Did you really edit directly and save as file of same name (as opposed to editing and saving as foo.com.conf)? Anyway, it doesn't contain a lot - apart from some comments, it has....

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Yes, unfortunately I did, however, as this particular pi is my development test thing, the best lesson I have learned from this is to rename the original file as a backup so I don't make the same mistakes twice.

Thanks for this, that is really helpful.

regards
iFunk