Is their any way I could just have a default regular monolithic httpd.conf? Remember those one place to make changes to an apache setup and if I wanted to butcher it I could. To me it just seams the default setup makes more work.
Actually if you understand how it works on OpenSUSE you seldom have to edit anything inside /etc/apache2.
Virtual hosts go into vhosts.d, one per file. You need to uncomment NameVirtualHost in listen.conf.
Modules are enabled in /etc/sysconfig/apache. For SSL you will also have to configure the ssl in vhosts.d
The main thing that trips people up is the secure default of not serving DocumentRoot. But you just have to put an index.html in there and you will get a page.
i had a long time finding out where to put my files /svr/www/htdocs
it was only when i opened up default conf file to change the path i came to know where to put up the file