Apache start on login

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 15, 2013, at 02:06, Phil Dobbin <phildobbin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/15/2013 07:15 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 00:00, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> 
>>> Apache/2.2.3 from MacPorts
>>> 
>>> What's the equivalent command to '# chkconfig httpd on' I have run to
>>> get apache to start at login?
>> 
>> I'm not familiar with the "chkconfig" command, but if you want to start MacPorts apache2 at login, then you would use "sudo port load apache2".
>> 
> 
> Thanks, Ryan.
> 
> The 'chkconfig' command is the RPM (Red Hat/Fedora/CentOs) equivalent of
> the init script 'sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start|graceful|stop' command
> on Deb/Ubuntu distros & when it's installed by apt it automatically
> starts apache on login (on RPM distros yum doesn't, so you have to use
> the 'chkconfig' command to ensure it starts at login).

I should correct myself. "sudo port load apache2", which calls out to "launchctl load", will start apache2 immediately, and at every subsequent system startup. There's no need for an OS X user to be logged in.