Almost there... problem in Apache?

Hi,

OK I think I almost have this thing installed running apache2 and modperl
however when the Apache server starts no complaints but under the virtual
host I get and error trying to connect. The connection was refused when
attempting to contact servername:8080 the admin server is on 8888. Anyone?
the user and group is set to www do I need to change this ownership in
/opt/rt3 ?