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1. Thanks, but it might be easier this way: Open the “Sharing” preference, (de-)select “Web Sharing”.

2. I was just wondering if OS X got some sort of service manager. I need to dig it a little more…

   thanks for the comment!

3. The software to start/stop (load/unload) services is called “launchctl”. From the man page:
   
launchctl interfaces with launchd to load, unload daemons/agents and generally control launchd. launchctl supports taking subcommands on the command line, interactively or even redirected from standard input.
These commands can be stored in $HOME/.launchd.conf or /etc/launchd.conf to be read at the time launchd starts.


4. Vivek, what does the -k switch do? I couldn’t find it in the man page for apachectl on a Mac OS X system.

5. @Robert, I will look into it.

   @Leaman, the apachectl command works in two modes:
   a) Sys v style mode – One line command mode which take args like start, restart, and stop, and translating them into appropriate UNIX signals to httpd.

   apachectl start | stop | restart | graceful|graceful-stop

   b) Traditional UNIX mode with lots of options for testing and debugging. In this mode it can act as a simple front-end to the httpd command that simply sets necessary environment variables and then invokes httpd, passing through any command line arguments.

   apachectl -t
   apachectl -k stat | stop
   apachectl -d /webroot
   ....

   HTH

6. it does’mt work for me :(

7. SUM-IT:~ sumitgupta$ apachectl -k graceful
   httpd: Syntax error on line 488 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 8 of /private/etc/apache2/other/+entropy-php.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/local/php5/libphp5.so, 10): Symbol not found: _libiconv\n Referenced from: /usr/local/php5/lib/libintl.8.dylib\n Expected in: /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib\n
   SUM-IT:~ sumitgupta$

   this is the problem i am facing please help…..

8. i receive an error when I try to restart apache with: sudo apachectl restart
   the error reads: /urs/sbin/apachectL: line 73: unlimit: open files: cannot modify limit: invalid argument

   can anyone help! please.

   1. Solution is here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgraded-to-php-530-on-mac-now-no-database-connection

      changes are to be made in “/usr/sbin/apachectl”

      comment out the these lines.

      i did this through the command line using ‘vi’ commands

9. @Javier, I’d say there is an error in your httpd.conf file. Open it up in the plain-text editor of your choice–one that shows line numbers–and look at line 73. There is either a syntax error or an invalid argument for the option contained on that line.

   Good luck!

   1. lemanc,
      i went to httpd.conf file and line 73 is ‘LoadModule include_module libexec/apache2/mod_include.so ‘ do you know anything about this kind of issue?
      thanks in advanced!

   2. This is not the correct solution. Please see my other reply for the solution.

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