Hello

been trying to get localhost to fire up all day..
apache says its working fine on the generic localhost.

'It works!

This is the default web page for this server.

The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.'

I have followed the Ubuntu tutorial, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

but even though mysite.config is created, I am not seeing the 000-default disabled, it still appears to be the default page.

I currently have default, default-ssl and mysite conf in the available sites, and default in the sites-enabled after running sudo a2dissite 000-default && sudo a2ensite mysite as per the tutorial.

thanks for any input, been surprised how little I could find on this after looking all day. I've been trying to aviod xampp so that I can better learn apache.

is there a user named "apache" and are the apache related files and folders owned by that user ?

the out of the box ( default installed by the distro / package manager) will show the Apache " success" html page on
http://127.0.0.1:80
and the second option on port 8080

to make changes the httpd.conf file is 95 documentation
also be aware that 2.2 is OLD - supported but OLD
do not expect to do many "new fangled things"

see the documentation web pages
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/
-- think of them as your FINAL exam study material

Thanks for the response, I think I'm going to have to try and do a clean uninstall and use XAMPP for now.
I'll try and get a virtual box setup to play around with the adult version later and maybe see if I can get a setup that will support the latest version. Because of a lot of travelling, I'm just using Bodhi on a 16gb chromebook right now, so not really much scope for testing.
My setup seems a bit confusing, even though its listing as ver. 2.2 the httpd.conf is empty so appears to be using the newer setup. anyway, will come back to this later! too many variables!
(have bookmarked the apache documentation path though