Apache won't start (was: Hi, I need some help)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:13, Ali A Samii wrote:

> OK, prior to the total reinstall I did, apache was running, as was mysql
> 
> when I do a ps auxw | grep 
> and query for httpd - no process running now
> and query for mysql - no process running now
> 
> It appears that nothing is running.
> 
> I just issued "sudo touch /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf" command

why?

> I followed it by "sudo /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start"
> I didn't get an error message nor any feedback whatsoever.

I think that's normal.


> However, I decided to try to get to localhost, and for some reason, something changed because I got there.
> 
> So, I issued a " ps auxw | grep httpd": and it seems I now have 11 httpd start processes!
> 
> _www      1510   0.0  0.0  2451584   1548   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.00 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> _www      1509   0.0  0.0  2451584   1564   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.00 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> _www      1508   0.0  0.0  2451584   1544   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.00 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> _www      1507   0.0  0.1  2451584   1636   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.01 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> root      1506   0.0  0.2  2451584   5316   ??  Ss    6:07PM   0:00.09 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> ali       1550   0.0  0.0  2425568    204 s000  U+    6:09PM   0:00.00 grep httpd
> _www      1521   0.0  0.0  2451584    620   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.00 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> _www      1520   0.0  0.0  2451584    620   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.00 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> _www      1519   0.0  0.0  2451584    620   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.00 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> _www      1518   0.0  0.0  2451584    620   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.00 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> _www      1517   0.0  0.0  2451584    620   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.00 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
> _www      1516   0.0  0.0  2451584    620   ??  S     6:07PM   0:00.00 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start

Ok good. Note that you've just started the server, not scheduled it to start at system startup. So if you restart your computer, the server will not start again.

If you want the server to start at system startup, use the launchd plist MacPorts has installed for you. The simple way to do that is to first stop Apache again, then run "sudo port load apache2". If you ever want to undo that, then you run "sudo port unload apache2". You can also use any 3rd-party launchd plist manager. Lingon used to be a good one, but is no longer being developed; not sure if there's a current alternative.


> But still no mysql.

Ok, so what's going on there? Logs? Messages?