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I know this gets asked a lot but still, I wasn't able to find a solution.

I'm on Mac os and I'm trying to start Apache on XAMPP.

I tried sudo apachectl stop as explained here but that didn't work.

Terminal says /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist: Could not find specified service.

The XAMPP Application Log says

Starting Apache Web Server...
Exit code: 8
Stdout:
apache config test fails, aborting
Stderr:
AH00544: httpd: bad group name Barbara

Any ideas?

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    can't stop what isn't running. and it won't run until you create a user group named `Barbara`, or tell apache to run as another group that already exists. – Marc B Jan 05 '16 at 14:22
  • Thank you! It makes more sense now. Do you know where and how to create such user group? Or can you point me to some instructions? – Barbara Jan 05 '16 at 14:25
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    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8519663/create-new-user-group-in-mac-os – Marc B Jan 05 '16 at 14:26
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    OMG, thank you!! I'm new to mac and this was driving me crazy. Can you made this into an answer so I can upvote you? – Barbara Jan 05 '16 at 14:32

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if there is not a plist running that means apache is not running some times people already have apache running and then try and us xampp. now they try and run apache in two places on the same Mac. the plist tells you its not up and running so I would suggest trying to start the apache you want.

for xampp stack try this in terminal

sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/apachectl start

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