Comments on: Starting Apache at boot on Tiger

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.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:33:50 +0000

@Marco, on Leopard your better of using the method described here: Starting Apache at boot on Leopard

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:58:46 +0000

Works great OS 10.5

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:52:23 +0000

Thanks for instruction – worked like a champ!

By: vxbush

vxbush — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:44:50 +0000

Yes, the file has to be executable or it won’t work. –V

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:31:40 +0000

#!/bin/sh
# Apache 2 Web Server startup item
# http://diymacserver.com
#

APACHECTL=”http://diymacserver.com/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl”
Change to
APACHECTL=”/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl”

I think I needed to change the script access from:
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 737 Feb 14 21:29 Apache2
to:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1241 Feb 14 21:31 Apache2

Otherwise
./Apache2 stop
./Apache2 start
didn’t work.