How to completely remove Apache from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - apache

I have tried all the steps in the given in the AskUbuntu forums but all in vain.I removed entire LAMP Stack as well.But Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page loads up.I want to shift to Nginx and try and test my website on to that first.
AskUbuntu Solutions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/50101/how-do-i-remove-the-lamp-stack-so-i-can-start-over
https://askubuntu.com/questions/176964/permanently-removing-apache2
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

In my case it was because the god damn index file was left in the /var/www directory. So the NGINX was running though it showed the apache html file :) So once I removed index.html from the directory it showed the correct one.

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How can "localhost" give an answer when apache2 is not installed?

My apache2 configuration is driving me crazy, and since I'm new to Linux/Ubuntu (16.04) and servers, I've been trying to install/remove lamp (and also xampp, and also phpmyadmin) a great number of times now, with several methods... without much results.
However, my current configuration is :
mysql-server is installed, and I can connect with 'mysql -u root -p'
phpmyadmin : I have tried to reinstall it, but there was a problem with apache2 (could not reload it or something... I haven't figured it yet)
php7 is installed and has been working until my server has crashed (I haven't tried to remove it)
apache2 : I used to have a lamp configuration + XAMPP (lampp in /opt/), but since there has been a problem, I uninstalled XAMPP and recently I also unistalled apache2 (sudo apt-get purge apache2, sudo apt-get autoremove, sudo apt-get clean and I verified that the configuration files have been deleted).
When I still had apache2, I finally had this problem : when opening "localhost" on Firefox, it was showing :
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /
on this server.<br>
</p>
<p>Additionally, a 403 Forbidden
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>
My main question for this post now :
Since I have deleted Apache2, "localhost" should not be working at all now on my browser (Firefox)... However, I still get the exact same page ?! Do you know why / can help me ?
Thanks a lot in advance to all who can help me, either to understand my problem better (so that I know a bit more where/how to search for answers), or to solve my problem (and help me work on my website again ^^) !
Have you already stopped Apache via systemctl? Something like sudo service stop apache2 (or is it sudo service apache2 stop), will stop the server from running. Even though you have uninstalled everything, the server process will still run if you haven't stopped it.

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I also looked at the instructions here but NONE of my site-available contain the lines that are mentioned.
Then I saw this post but my apache2.conf file did not contain the lines he mentioned either.
I'm puling my hair out.
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I saw a configuration file named <sitenam>-le-ssl.conf in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled So I tried a2dissite <sitename>-le-ssl.conf
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Hope this helps someone in the future.

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Now I want to change the port so that I can access http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8060/redmine
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...
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I am running a huge php-application on an ubuntu server, using apache2, php5, mysql.
Sometimes (approx. once a month) the page ist not reachable from the internet ("it's down").
The weird thing is, that service apache2 status says that apache is running.
The solution is always to restart apache using service apache2 restart and everything works fine again.
The server load is at a minimum and can't be part of the problem (I guess).
I know, this description is not as detailed as it should be, but I do not have more information.
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