Setup local webserver

[steeldriver]

That's what the article said to do

I have a question though, how can i set the folder it's using to one in my documents area?

You can enable the apache2 default $HOME/public_html directory using

sudo a2enmod userdir

and restarting the apache2 service - if you want to enable php scripts in $HOME/public_html there's an extra step involving your /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf file - open the file and follow the instructions:

    # To re-enable php in user directories comment the following lines
    # (from <IfModule ...> to </IfModule>.) Do NOT set it to On as it
    # prevents .htaccess files from disabling it.
    <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
        <Directory /home/*/public_html>
            php_admin_value engine Off
        </Directory>
    </IfModule>

[ELD]

Hmm since doing this:

sudo a2enmod userdir

I can no longer start apache?

This is in the log file:

[Sun Mar 17 16:40:41 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Mar 17 16:40:42 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sun Mar 17 16:40:43 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.4.6-1ubuntu1.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Mar 17 16:41:38 2013] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Mar 17 16:41:38 2013] [error] (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket)
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[Sun Mar 17 16:41:38 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.4.6-1ubuntu1.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Mar 17 16:41:47 2013] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Mar 17 16:41:47 2013] [error] (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket)
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[Sun Mar 17 16:41:47 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.4.6-1ubuntu1.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Mar 17 16:42:25 2013] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Mar 17 16:42:25 2013] [error] (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket)
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[Sun Mar 17 16:42:25 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.4.6-1ubuntu1.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Mar 17 16:42:36 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico
[Sun Mar 17 16:42:36 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico
[Sun Mar 17 16:46:35 2013] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 127.0.0.1:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

[ELD]

BUMP, still need help with this

[steeldriver]

are you sure the service really stopped?

service apache2 status

did you look to see what's bound to port 80?

sudo netstat -nlp | grep :80

[ELD]

liam@liam-ubuntu:~$ service apache2 status
Apache2 is NOT running.


liam@liam-ubuntu:~$ sudo netstat -nlp | grep :80
[sudo] password for liam:
then nothing appears

Does that help?