Safari cannot connect to server "localhost"

I am stuck.

I am new to mac, I have a wamp development area on my win7 machine and I transfered everything over. I went through the process of setting up my dev area on the mac. I follow http://akrabat.com/computing/setting-up-php-mysql-on-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion/ tutorial step by step and everything went fine. I was able to server pages and get to my sites I had transfered over.

I then had some file permission errors so I went searching around for answers.

I ran $ dscacheutil -flushcache from the terminal window to reset some setting I had made and now nothing works. I of course cannot find the site I was on in the history to remeber what I was doing or try and back track.

I installed the websharing pluging by "tyler" http://clickontyler.com/ and it was also working fine but now I cannot get it to restart. It stays red when I turn it on. The PHP is a green light.

I have change the httpd.conf file out and replaced it with the original and still no restart.

Everything looks installed correctly when I do $ httpd -v from the terminal I get

Server version: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix)

Server built: Aug 28 2012 17:47:11

When I do $sudo apachectl graceful I don't get any errors

When I do $sudo apachectl start It tells me it is already running. But I cannot server pages.

When I run this from the terminal window, I sometimes get back a Webprocess returned and sometimes not.

$ sudo lsof -i -P | grep 80

webprocess 389 (a bunch of other #s) :80

I dont get httpd # (a bunch of other #'s):80 which I think I should get.

Any help would be appriacted!!