Comments on: Starting Apache at boot on Leopard

By: lingtalfi

lingtalfi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:38:21 +0000

@richard, yes you’re right, I solved my problems with changing folder’s permissions, the reason why I was trying to connect as _www was to play around with permissions (linux newbie discovering permissions).

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:14:57 +0000

@lingtalfi, I do not understand what you are trying to accomplish. Why and how do you want to “connect” ?

apache is running as _www and what you need to do is set the correct permissions on the file system e.g. make it read only for _www so make it secure.

By: lingtalfi

lingtalfi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:07:53 +0000

thanx again, I tried both ways and tried su www, sudo su www, su _www, sudo su _www, but unfortunately nothing happened.

By: TimRob

TimRob — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:00:57 +0000

You must be root to su.
Use sudo bash or sudo -s to get root shell then su www.

By: lingtalfi

lingtalfi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:52:06 +0000

thanx for you answer, but that still doesn’t work,
I think one cannot su on this machine. That’s ok, I can live with it (until I found why one day).

By: TimRob

TimRob — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:55:58 +0000

Richard,
Try using ‘www’ instead of ‘_www’

Best,

TimRob

By: lingtalfi

lingtalfi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:15:53 +0000

Hi, Richard, thanx for your very helpful website,
I have a question that is not directly related to this topic, but I didn’t found a contact section so I hope here is a good place :

using mac osx10.6 snow leopard, I successfully installed Apache using the tutorials found here.
Then for security purposes, I would need to connect as _www (to test _www’s permissions) but it seems I cannot do it using the su _www command, even sudo su _www command won’t work : nothing happens.
I also used sudo passwd _www to set a simple password
but still cannot log as _www.

Do you know an issue for this ?

By: nothing found to load

nothing found to load — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:51:33 +0000

I’m running Snow Leopard on an Xserve, and this “nothing found to load” error message came up first because the XML was malformed, then the DOCTYPE was not the same as in other plist files on the computer.

By: TimRob

TimRob — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:30:38 +0000

Sorry Richard, I should have directed my reply to Matthew and those having problems using the command as written. If you’re getting the ‘Nothing Found To Load” error, try using the -w switch.
Mainly what this does is write a key in to the .plist.

launchctl load -w writes the key

Disabled

(Note, It may actually just remove the key if it exists depending on what version of OS X)

Launchctl unload -w changes the key to:

Disabled

man launchctl for more.

Also make sure you don’t have a typo in the name of the .plist file

Best,

TimRob

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:12:01 +0000

TimRob, why would I want to use ‘-w’ which problem does this solve?