apache2 'connection closed' problem

[nihilo <exnihilo@myrealbox.com>]

hi,

I've just installed apache2 (apache2-common and apache2-mpm-worker, as 
well as libapache2-mod-python2.3).

The problem I'm having is that when it tries to serve up an html page, 
only the header gets sent, not the body. If I try to download a page 
that doesn't exist, I get a 404, but if I try to get a page that does 
exist, I get the following:

myhost:~# telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to myhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /index.html HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:56:10 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.47 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_python/3.0.3 Python/2.3+
Last-Modified: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 21:02:02 GMT
ETag: "33e8183-21c-814a680"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 540
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Connection closed by foreign host.
myhost:~#

The content-length is correct for the html file, so I know it's seeing 
the correct file, but the body of the  response is never sent.

Does anybody have any idea what might be going on?

thanks