Ubuntu reinstall apache

Apache has been corrupted somehow and now it just displays the following error when going to any page.

Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

This is nothing to do with .htaccess, everything was working fine on multiple virtual hosts before my virtual machine screwed up some files.

I think the best idea is to reinstall the apache2 package.

I have tried apt-get --purge remove apache2 and apt-get --reinstall install apache2. Nothing seems to work, it just marks it as removed but doesn't actually remove the files.

From serverfault Keyo

• apt-get remove apache2

  mv /etc/apache /etc/apache.old

  apt-get install apache2

  Keyo : 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1,484B of archives. After this operation, 36.9kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously deselected package apache2.... Looks like it just uses the old package.

  c10k Consulting : Does it happily install a new /etc/apache ?

  Keyo : I think I finally fixed it with `sudo apt-get purge apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-php5`
  From c10k Consulting