It's obvious that I am a newbie with server administration; my goal is to reach the knowledge needed to working with web services.
I played with my Debian server, and I messed up apache2; Now I want to completely* remove it from the server and then reinstall it as new.
*by completely i really mean completely, logs, configurations, settings, everything!
I followed the steps suggested by freedom_is_chaos in this answer, and I guess apache2 is no longer installed, because if I do apt-get remove apache2, I get this:
# apt-get remove apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package apache2 is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
# dpkg --remove apache2
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove apache2 which isn't installed.
# dpkg --purge apache2
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove apache2 which isn't installed.
Then, I rebooted the server, and:
# netstat -plant
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
[...]
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 3467/apache2
[...]
WTF? is apache2 still here? So it seems:
# /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
Stopping web server: apache2.
But:
# update-rc.d remove apache2
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/remove: file does not exist
So, what is happening to my server? How can I completely and truly remove apache2 from my server?
EDIT: As usually happens, the problem was between the chair and the keyboard ;)
I don't know how, but while I was 'playing' with the server configuration I installed apache2.2 by mistake, dpkg -l | grep 'apache' showed me some other libs still installed; once I removed them, I've been able to completely remove and reinstall apache2 (with the --purge option).
