Can't connect to localhost tho chkconfig apache2 says on

[nohairblair]

<SOLVED>when I try to connect to localhost in Firefox using 'localhost' or 'http://localhost/' or 'http://localhost/default.htm' I get an 'unable to connect' error. In Crome and Opera I get a list of google search/web sites. I've searched the FAQ and other threads but I can't find anything relative which makes me think that I'm doing something wrong that is probably quite simple to correct. Any help would be great!
p.s. I'm using Mint 12.

[DataMan]

You have properly installed LAMP into your Mint 12 right?

-DataMan

[nohairblair]

Hey DataMan, that's what I'm trying to confirm. I'm following the directions from mysoomro at http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/486, and I got to the TESTING APACHE stage, but I'm blocked.

[DataMan]

what do you get when you?

http://localhost/

-DataMan

[nohairblair]

if I use Firefox I get "unable to connect" if I use Opera I get "could not connect to remote server" and if I use Chrome I get "Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to localhost"

[DataMan]

I suspect that Apache is either not installed correctly or is not running.

Try this command (will return whether Apache is installed):

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ps -ef | grep httpd


-DataMan

[nohairblair]

by entering 'ps -ef | grep httpd' I get the following 'root 6343 6251 0 04:08 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto httpd'

I have no idea what that means!!

[unkilbeeg]

It means that httpd isn't running. You should probably try it again using "apache" as the string you grep for. The closest Mint machine I have is in another room (and firewalled off) but all the Debian and Ubuntu machines I can get to right now use "apache2" as the executable for the web server, not "httpd".

If you haven't already, type

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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

and then try

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ps ax | grep apache2

[nohairblair]

Hey unkilbeeg,
with entering "sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start" I get ".: 51: Can't open /etc/apache2/envvars"

and with entering "ps ax | grep apache2" I get "11100 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto apache2"

again I can't see why apache2 will not open?

[nohairblair]

Thanks Dataman and unkilbeeg for your help. I appear to have solved the problem by re-installing apache2 a number of times. Now when I enter "localhost" in the address line I get a "It Works" message! Now all I have to do is find out how to load a file into apache2.