Well this is the apache that comes with redhats 8.0 install...

i edited the conf file and when I run httpd or apachectl start nothing happens :/

I nmap my self and no port 80

[root@dhcppc1 root]# apachectl start
[root@dhcppc1 root]# apachectl restart
httpd not running, trying to start
[root@dhcppc1 root]#

start the server and see if "dmesg" can shed any light as well as the files in /var/log/httpd/

this seems to be it

[Sat Feb 15 18:44:59 2003] [alert] (22002)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "dhcppc1"
Configuration Failed

any idea on what it means?

hmm, i'd not be that sure that it's a fatal error, but it might be. it would seem that you obtain your IP with dhcp (like most people) when you conenct to the net, and this seems to be changing your host name to dhcppc1. i'd assume that this is from your ISP and not a server you're running yourself or else you would know about it... if that's the name you always get (seems a bit of an odd name to me though) then you could just add it to /etc/hosts under your local host i think, but you should probably look to stop the isp setting your host name, which you can probably do just by confirming your own with "hostname mycomputersname"