Anyway, I attempted to restart Apache to make some changes take effect and I was met with an error that stated Apache "Failed to start service".
What I did and what you might need to do in these situations is to look at apache's logs. In Ubuntu, apache's error log is located at:
/var/log/apache2/error.log
For my particular situation, all I needed to do was scroll down in this error log and there was my problem:
Unable to open logs
(2)No such file or directory: apache2: could not open error log file /home/server1/domains/SomeDomain.com/logs/error_log.
So what apparently happened is over the last few days I must have deleted the mentioned error log and apache wouldn't start without it being there.
This post is just a reminder that when you're having problems with apache not starting, the error logs should be your first place to gather information.
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