Running but wont shut down.

[smoker616]

I am running mandrake 9.1 and have apache 2 installed. I modified the config files and tried to start it with apachectl but it wouldnt start. I then tried to start it with ./httpd and it looks like its running because i can access htdocs through my web browser at 0.0.0.0:80
However when i run apachectl status it says
Apache is *not* running
when i type the command
apachectl stop
i can still access the htdocs directory through my browser.

I am very new at linux and would appreciate any help you could give me on this

 

[smoker616]

Ok it looks like i found my problem apparently when i uninstalled apache previously it left some shell scripts in my sbin.