sudo port install apache2

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 16, 2007, at 18:03, Charlse Darwin wrote:

> "The MacPorts binary installer places a .profile file in your home  
> directory (view files preceded by a dot with 'ls -a'). The contents  
> of this ~/.profile file adds the MacPorts paths in front of the  
> standard Unix paths for the default BASH shell. This is done so  
> that if you have utilities or libraries from both MacPorts and OS  
> X's standard install, the MacPorts libraries will be run instead of  
> the ones provided by Apple.
>
> export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH


> in my system I have
[snip]
> export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/ 
> sbin:$PATH
[snip]
> $ env
> #…
> PATH=/Users/pm/Documents/scripts/:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/ 
> usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/ 
> bin:/usr/sbin/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ 
> local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
> #…
> $
>
> # env returns more than what I have in ~/.profile?!!

Do you maybe have a ~/.bash_profile which would be used in preference  
to any ~/.profile?


> # About directory "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/ 
> Current/bin/bin" ?!! Whatever feeds those extra paths to env is  
> where this weird directory and extra /bin and /sbin stem from.
> $ ls Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/bin
> ls: Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/bin:  
> No such file or directory
> $ ls Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/
> ls: Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/: No  
> such file or directory
> $ ls Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/
> ls: Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/: No such  
> file or directory
> $ ls Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/
> ls: Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/: No such file or  
> directory
> $ ls Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/
> ls: Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/: No such file or directory
> $ ls Library/Frameworks/
> EWSMac.framework                GoogleMapsShared.framework       
> Skype.framework
> $
>
> Your point about about direct use of apachectl is well taken but  
> what I was trying to say was that since bash calls the bash  
> installed by Macport I thought, by the same line of reasoning,  
> apachectl should call apachectl installed by Macport. After all  
> this is why we set the PATH that way; "if you have utilities or  
> libraries from both MacPorts and OS X's standard install, the  
> MacPorts libraries will be run instead of the ones provided by Apple."
>
> What am I missing?

The apachectl installed by the apache2 port is not in any of the  
paths in your PATH. It is in /opt/local/apache2/bin. If you want  
"apachectl" to refer to the MacPorts apache2 apachectl, add /opt/ 
local/apache2/bin to your PATH. Or add "alias apachectl=/opt/local/ 
apache2/bin/apachectl" to your ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile).