> it seems that at some point.. someone changed the way apache was
> installed.. I just upgraded and now I'm not sure what's supposed to be
> what.. 
> 
> The docroot was in /usr/local/httpd/htdocs, but now seems to be moved to
> /var/www/htdocs ??
> 
> also it seems that the configuration moved from /etc/httpd to
> /etc/apache
> 
> 
> Could someone please clarify all the changes that got made here

Actually, all of the changes are documented.  Take a look
at /usr/portage/net-www/apache/ChangeLog.

-g2boojum-