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Fatalution
Fatalution

Reputation: 69

Can't stop or prevent apache server from launching on macOS Catalina

I have searched and tried a lot of solutions here and all over Google. My situation is as follows.

I just don't want Apache to be running.

1) localhost leads to "It works!" page
2) The command sudo apachectl stop results in:

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

3) sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist leads to the same output as in the number 2.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4043

Answers (2)

Aun Shahbaz
Aun Shahbaz

Reputation: 1

I was using Nginx, so this command works for me:

sudo nginx -s stop

Or you can kill processes manually:

sudo kill -9 325 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391

After stopping nginx, you can verify it's no longer running by running the following command:

sudo lsof -i:80

Upvotes: 0

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 837

I was experiencing the same issue, based on this guide the following worked for me:

$ sudo apachectl stop
$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist 2>/dev/null

Upvotes: 3

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