Sagr (>>) and Brett (>) said:
?????? Errrr... Does this mean that EVERY SINGLE PERSON who wants to use Apache will encounter the same problem as me????
No, just debian and ubuntu users.
It's all a bit hit and miss. When I first started with Debian it tended to turn things on by default, and even now a lot of packages still seem to.
While I can understand (and agree with) the logic of not dumping daemons onto a server and running them without configuring them, it's annoying how many packages seem to come without any configuration help. Even telling me which documentation to read first is better than nothing, but some don't even manage that.
I should stop moaning and starting learning to maintain packages ;-)
Matthew