This describes a problem that can't be reproduced, that seemingly went away on its own or was only relevant to a very specific period of time. It's off-topic as it's unlikely to help future readers.

Closed last year.

I recently asked a question here about bugzilla, but I think it's really just my apache2 install. when browsing to http://my.ip.addr I get this text:

instead of the welcome screen. Most of the docs I found simply said to install apache2 and I should be up and running.

In the other question, I had two errors, one about the missing prefork package, and one about the ps output. Given that apache is so widely used, it's weird to me that it wasn't more straight-forward.

I found this doc that is more specific to 16.04, and it says to run the ufw command.

Update

ufw status:

I have this in my apache2.conf. (I changed it a couple of times, what should the correct value be?)

And I do have the /var/www/html/index.html file present. With the directory value set as above, I get this message when viewing in a browser:

update I resolved this by purging/removing apache2 and re-installing.