[atomicski]

I have a macbook pro running osx. I do not know whether this happens if i am in windows since i don't currently have it installed, but when I access http://localhost or http://myip from my computer or any other on the network, i get a website loading instead of my apache, even if i turn apache off. what would cause this? some dns glitch? the website it directs to is not just a straight ip though, because the address would look like www.website.com/folder/folder/something.php and it is not a redirect, since localhost stays in the address bar.

any ideas?

[Simon]

I'm guessing it's serving the the content of /Library/WebServer/Documents as the default for http://localhost.

Are you sure it still serves that page (do a forced reload to make sure you're not just looking at a cached or proxy served page) when you stop Apache? And how did you stop Apache? Try this: go to System Preferences > Sharing and make sure "Personal Web Sharing" is unchecked. Have you enabled the root account in the past BTW?

[ghporter]

Apache is set up in OS X by default to provide something-not much, mind you, but something. The "Seeing this instead of the website you expected?" page is just the default "successful installation" page for Apache. But when I go to http://localhost, I don't get redirected. I think if you do get redirected that you should look at your hosts file (but I can't remember where that is at the moment...). The hosts file can redirect ANYTHING.