OS: macOS Mojave 10.14.6
HTTP Server: Apache 2.4.55
When trying to restart apache server, I get "Address already in use..." message. Hm, so there must be a process that listens to that port, right? With this line (from elsewhere) in Terminal to see what's up:
ps auxw | grep httpd
it gives
_www 1317 0.0 0.1 4361716 7452 ?? S 12:39AM 0:00.10 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
_www 1303 0.0 0.1 4361716 7364 ?? S 12:39AM 0:00.23 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
root 104 0.0 0.1 4359628 5956 ?? Ss 12:20AM 0:01.07 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
ausername 7671 0.0 0.0 4277256 804 s003 S+ 12:21PM 0:00.00 grep httpd
_www 7654 0.0 0.0 4359604 1004 ?? S 12:21PM 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
Right, so now I try to stop it
httpd -k stop
which gives
httpd (no pid file) not running
Ok, then I try with
/usr/sbin/httpd -k stop
httpd (pid 104?) not running
Hm... maybe:
apachectl -k stop
httpd (no pid file) not running
So what is running then? And how do I restart it? This is the first time I'm dealing with this kind of errors regarding Apache on OSX.
I've checked this thread but nothing worked for me. Using grep -ri listen /etc/apache2 I've got a list of multiple Listen: 80 however all of them where in httpd.conf files with .bak, .original, ~previous, .pre-update. All except for one being used for httpd. How do I know? httpd -V which gives:
-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
-D APR_HAS_MMAP
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
-D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE
-D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
-D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=256
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/opt/local"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/opt/local/bin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="var/run/apache2/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="etc/apache2/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="etc/apache2/httpd.conf"
and that last file has these lines:
Listen 8080
Listen 80
So now I am out of ideas.
PS: After digging in the logs, this now is a telling sign that I have multiple Apache installations (probably leftovers from Homebrew installations). These two lines:
[Fri Feb 17 00:22:56.067511 2023] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 104] AH00163: Apache/2.4.46 (Unix) PHP/7.3.33 LibreSSL/2.5.5 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 17 00:22:56.067613 2023] [core:notice] [pid 104] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'
First line says it is running Apache/2.4.46 but it is not the version I get when I run httpd -v The second line seems to log the starting command for the Apache process. Where could this command line possibly be located? Has to do with startup process, right?
