Apache not starting on boot OS X? Here's how to fix:
written by Steven on August 16, 2007
#>sudo vi /etc/hostconfig
(or your favorite editor)
Should look something like this:
AUTHSERVER=-NO- AUTOMOUNT=-YES- CUPS=-AUTOMATIC- NFSLOCKS=-AUTOMATIC- NISDOMAIN=-NO- TIMESYNC=-YES- QTSSERVER=-NO- WEBSERVER=-NO- SMBSERVER=-NO- SNMPSERVER=-NO- SPOTLIGHT=-YES- ARDAGENT=-YES- CRASHREPORTER=-YES- MYSQLCOM=-YES-
Change the line
WEBSERVER=-NO-
to
WEBSERVER=-YES-
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Isn’t that a more complicated way of doing “System preferences… → Sharing → Services (tab) → tick Personal Web Sharing” in Tiger? :> As I can see it does the same edit with hostconfig.
Or have you got any custom Apache install?
What happened to Mongrel??
Cezary,
It is more complicated. My “Personal Web Sharing” box was already ticked but that was not reflected in the file. (My hard drive died on Sunday night, so this is a new install. I don’t know why it wasn’t working.)
Chris,
Nothing happened to mongrel. I still use mongrel for development, but I use apache to run phpmyadmin.