This Works:

After spending half a night trying the wrong way, i finally got apt-get in Ubuntu 9.10 to reinstall the apache configuration files. All you have to do is:

#sudo apt-get purge apache2.2-common
#sudo apt-get install apache2.2-common

Not Working:

I tried looking for several answers, all so close, yet all none working

  • http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1055112
  • http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=296875
  • http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Ubuntu/2006-10/msg00759.html

and even my own thread, that no one felt like replying to

  • http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1417816