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Question #77571 on apache2 in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+question/77571

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Daf Hobson confirmed that the question is solved:
Thanks for your answer.
As with arty farty people like me; after a while one has been through so many loops and so many hours of frustration that one looses track of the aim and the process. Somehow I got it going. 
What might help others who read this post is what worked for me.

I tried to remove apache2 in synaptic ... a 'complete' removal that is.
I discovered that many files were still in place; eg /etc/apache2
I tried -purge. This didn't clear my machine either.
I tried 'find' and manually deleted the entire list. (By now I didn't care if I lost the machine) I diodn't loose the machine but didn't clear apache2 from jaunty.

Eventually I found this line in Ubuntu forums:-

sudo apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l apache* | grep ii | awk '{print
$2}') && sudo apt-get install apache2

and I found it at:- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=813725

It worked 'out of the box' as it were. apache2 went stright in to Jaunty
and worked; and I now need to study it to understand what the first half
of the line before 'pipe' means.

I had to repeat the whole 'permissions' nightmare in order to get
apache2 to render my website - which it now does as it should.

The only connundrum I cannot solve is that I had been through that
'permissions' nightmare previously and am familiar with what to do. Hey
ho. For all the agony I've been with Ubuntu over a year and now cannot
stand looking at the 'other' operating system.

Regards
Daf

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