Comments on: Starting Apache at boot on Tiger

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:50:04 +0000

@Roberto, make sure that in /etc/hostconfig it says WEBSERVER=-NO- and APACHE2=-YES-

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:12:09 +0000

Hi Richard question I followed the tutorial and everything seems to work my only problems is that every time I start up Apache (both at start up and manual start) the Personal Web Sharing keeps turning on. Everything seems to still run fine. The new version seems to be running. When I check test.php file it shows the new apache version and directory.

Is this normal or is the old version running in the background?

By: Klaus

Klaus — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:54:19 +0000

Works with 10.4 Server for Apache2 installed by MacPorts:

1. change /usr/local/… to /opt/local/…

2. before reboot, take care to disable MacPorts daemon startup by:
sudo port unload apache2

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:52:46 +0000

Very good instructions.

On Linux, the Apache 2 controller script is called “apache2ctl”, so for clarity and consistency, I created a symbolic link in my system path called “apache2ctl” which points to the apache2 controller script.

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/apachectl /usr/sbin/apache2ctl

It might be preferable to put the link in /usr/local/bin, but whatever.

This way I can still run the old Apache 1.3 server any time I want by manually stopping the apache 2 server and starting the apache 1.3 server.

$ sudo apachectl stop
$ sudo apache2ctl start

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:31:36 +0000

@Shan, that is a solution but you should go into your System Preferences and in the Sharing panel turn of Web Sharing.

By: Shan

Shan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:27:16 +0000

Apache is not starting at startup for me. However, if I run the following command it starts fine.

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

I noticed in my /etc/hostconfig the following line. Do I need to remove it?

WEBSERVER=-YES-

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:53:21 +0000

@Jesse, I’m sorry about the quote problem I thought I eliminated most of them they are a remnant of a database upgrade gone wrong. I will correct it later. The instructions for Tiger have been deleted. I’m unable to support Tiger as well next to the other OS X versions (not enough hardware and such). But I’ll send you some instructions I’ve found in a backup.

By: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:31:31 +0000

Thanks so much for this useful and excellent HOWTO. Two criticisms: 1) please don’t use forward and backward quotes in shell scripts, it makes it impossible to cut & paste them into my editor. Just use normal quotes: “”. 2) These are instructions for installing Apache on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, but from here you link to “Installing PHP”, which only has instructions for Leopard and Snow Leopard.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:33:53 +0000

@Gee, no you are wrong, it will run apache. If it doesn’t there is something wrong with Apache or your config. Try running it from the command line.

By: Gee

Gee — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:20:36 +0000

So, unless I’m missing something here, this script doesn’t do anything except hit the bottom call to “RunService” which does nothing since neither of the functions are called that. I tried.