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Barbara
Barbara

Reputation: 14776

XAMPP on mac os - Apache won't start

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?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4564

Answers (1)

wayne wally
wayne wally

Reputation: 51

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

Upvotes: 5

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