Forum Moderators: phranque
The default location for httpd.conf is in /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf. If you install from source using the defaults, this is where it is located. If you install apache with a package manager, like RPM, then it usually gets installed in a different location, and httpd.conf will reside in /etc/httpd/conf/. What likely happened was Apache was installed by a package manager, then removed, and reinstalled from source. Typically, if you've made any changes to the httpd.conf file, removing the package will not remove the httpd.conf file.
In order to figure out which one Apache is actually using, you need to find the actual httpd executable. This is probably either in /usr/sbin/ or /usr/local/apache2/bin/. If it is located in /usr/sbin/, then the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf is probably the correct one. Otherwise, the /usr/local/aapache2/conf/httpd.conf file is probably the correct one.
Hopefully that wasn't too convoluted :)
Chad
