Trying to install MAMP on new machine and having problems

[Ali A Samii]

OK, thanks, that's logical and efficient.

I used sudo /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k restart because that is what is recommended in the macports wiki how-to https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP

Maybe that should be updated with your recommendation
On 19 Nov, 2010, at 05:47 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Nov 18, 2010, at 22:34, Ali A Samii wrote:
> 
>> OK, you were right, I had the wrong copy of the httpd-vhosts.conf file loaded. I reloaded it, and it works.
>> 
>> However, apache isn't starting up on machine restart. I ran 
>> 
>> sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist
>> 
>> and it says 
>> 
>> org.macports.apache2: Already loaded
>> 
>> But when I restart, it doesn't load.
>> 
>> I discovered that when I switched the httpd-vhosts.conf file and issued the command
>> 
>> sudo /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k restart
>> 
>> and it said
>> 
>> httpd not running, trying to start
>> 
>> So is there anyway I can totally unload org.macports.apache2 and then reissue 
>> 
>> sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist
> 
> Well, to unload apache2, you would just issue
> 
> sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist
> 
> or equivalently:
> 
> sudo port unload apache2
> 
> 
> I am not certain that using apachectl to restart apache2 is a good idea. The purpose of launchd is to notice processes that stop without its knowledge, and to restart them. So if you use apachectl -k restart, launchd may notice apache "crashing" and restart it itself, confusing apachectl. Instead, you may want to use launchctl to unload apache2, then load it again. This will result in a short interruption of service. If that's not acceptable, investigate if you can just kill (or send some other signal to) apache to tell it to close; launchd will relaunch it.
> 
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