I recently upgraded my mythbuntu installation from 12.04 to 14.04. For some reason the distribution upgrade tool failed on me. I had to upgrade manually by updating everything in /etc/apt/sources* to point to trusty instead of precise.
After a reboot I was surprised to find out that everything upgraded beautifully except for one thing – mythweb. When I tried to start Apache I was greeted with this lovely message:
* The apache2 configtest failed. Output of config test was: AH00526: Syntax error on line 30 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mythweb.conf: Illegal option AllowAll Action 'configtest' failed. The Apache error log may have more information.
It turns out Ubuntu 14.04 uses a different version of Apache with different syntax, which breaks the configuration. Thanks to this post I found the fix to be relatively easy:
sudo rm /etc/apache2/sites-available/mythweb.conf sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythweb sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
After that was done, all was well and upgraded.