After having issues with network manager after my laptop shutdown I found a fix to the issue. To read the full blog post go here.

http://www.harshj.com/2010/06/02/network-manager-disabled/

AllowOverride All solution works fine for me. Here is what I did:

1) sudo a2enmod rewrite
2) sudo nano -w /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default