All instances of loopback have the port number without them i get an error message about missing * ports and non-* ports when i dont use the port nubmer at all it tells me no port is defined. 

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
 * Starting web server apache2                                                  
[Mon Dec 31 04:28:18 2007] [warn] NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:61017 has no VirtualHosts
[Mon Dec 31 04:28:18 2007] [warn] NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:61017 has no VirtualHosts
                                                                         [ OK ]

$ cat error_log
[Mon Dec 31 04:28:20 2007] [error] /tmp/.wapi: Operation not permitted
[Mon Dec 31 04:28:20 2007] [error] /tmp/.wapi: Operation not permitted
[Mon Dec 31 04:28:20 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Ubuntu) Embperl/2.2.0 mod_auth_kerb/5.3 mod_mono/1.2.4 proxy_html/2.5 DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e PHP/5.2.3-1ubuntu6.2 mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Dec 31 04:28:20 2007] [error] /tmp/.wapi: Operation not permitted
[Mon Dec 31 04:28:20 2007] [error] /tmp/.wapi: Operation not permitted
[Mon Dec 31 04:28:20 2007] [error] /tmp/.wapi: Operation not permitted