A way to solve this is to delete and retype the first an last character of each line which Apache is complaining about. You can then test your configuration again.
<pre><nowiki>service systemctl configtest httpd configtest</nowiki></pre>
If all goes well and you get "Syntax OK" then you can start your Apache server again.
<pre><nowiki>service systemctl restart httpd start</nowiki></pre>
If all things end badly and you can't figure it out then it is possible to restart this tutorial from scratch. Just start it over.