>The problem is that whenever I try to start Apache no errors are given,
>meaning it appears everything has started fine

Not getting a specific error doesn't necessarily mean that everything 
has started fine? The only way to determine that everything has 
started fine is the line:
/usr/pkg/sbin/apachectl start: httpd started

At any rate, have you tried apachectl configtest ?

Mike
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