I am running some pretty basic php sites on Snow Leopard.

Usually I just go to my browser and type anything like:

localhost
http://localhost
127.0.0.1
mycomputername.local

But suddenly, after installing a gem file (compass) none of this is working.

I tried

sudo apachectl restart

Thinking that I just needed to restart apache, but no luck.

My error log looks like:

[Mon Mar 26 09:39:08 2012] [warn] child process 45443 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45223 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45043 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45438 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45049 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45439 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45224 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45440 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45441 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45442 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:10 2012] [warn] child process 45443 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Mar 26 09:39:11 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

I also tried

sudo apachectl -k start

And I got the error:

Syntax error on line 182 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Illegal option

When I look at the code around that line, I see:

<Directory />
    Options Indexes MultiViews + FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow, deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>