Turning on Web Sharing does not work and fails to load apache web server

God almighty! It works!!!!!

I had the same darn error and couldn't find anything on it, until I saw your post!

Please go back to this entry and mark it as answered, so people can see that your solution works!!!!

Yes, worked for me too. This problem devloped several days ago after a failed attempt to update iLife apps from the app store. I was trying to track down the referer to libpq.5.dylib and edit it to libpq.5.3.dylib, but your simlink is a simpler solution for now. Thanks

Hi there,

You seemed to have had a similar problem to what I now have and so wondered if you might be able to help me :-)

I have posted this as a new post as well but if anyone has five mins could they take a look - I would be very grateful. Here you go:

I am new to all this so I have probably made some simple errors and I hope someone can help me. I will retell what I have done as I haven't a clue what part of what I have done has mucked things up.

I am really stuck. Web sharing will not start on my iMac running Lion OS X. It did work fine and then I wanted to activate PHP so my test website contact form would work (and send the data on the form throught to my email address.

Before I did anything I turned on websharing and could view my website from another computer using: http://192.168.1.4/~stewartfergusson/

I think followed the instructions on this link to activate PHP -http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/php_leopard.php

I then did a few things in terminal and will paste below what I did:

Last login: Sun Jan 1 09:01:52 on console

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:~ stewartfergusson$ cd/private/etc

-bash: cd/private/etc: No such file or directory

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:~ stewartfergusson$ cd

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:~ stewartfergusson$ cd prvate

-bash: cd: prvate: No such file or directory

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:~ stewartfergusson$ cd private

-bash: cd: private: No such file or directory

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:~ stewartfergusson$ cd /private/etc

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:etc stewartfergusson$ sudo cp php.ini.default php.ini

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss

or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your

typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:etc stewartfergusson$

Last login: Wed Jan 4 09:03:03 on console

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:etc stewartfergusson$

Last login: Thu Jan 5 06:19:15 on console

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:etc stewartfergusson$ sudo In -s /usr/lib/libpq.5.3.dylib /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib

Password:

sudo: In: command not found

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:etc stewartfergusson$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpq.5.3.dylib /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib

ln: /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib: File exists

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:etc stewartfergusson$ sudo apachectl -t

Password:

Syntax error on line 1 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

Invalid command '1', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:etc stewartfergusson$ sudo apachectl configtest

Password:

Syntax error on line 1 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

Invalid command '1', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Stewart-Fergussons-iMac:etc stewartfergusson$

An important point to note is that I now appear to have more than one http.config file and they are located in the following locations:

1) Macintosh HD/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.default

2) Macintosh HD/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.default.default

3) Macintosh HD/etc/apache2/original/httpd.conf

I edited this file (which one I have not got a clue) and also the php.ini file within Macintosh HD/etc/ using Terminal - the command I used was sudo cp php.ini.default php.ini

This php.ini file now exists in two locations now as well:

1) Macintosh HD/etc/php.ini

2) Macintosh HD/etc/php.ini.default

I then edited this file by changing the line of code below from:

514 error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE (I think it said E_DEPRECATED actually) but I am lifting this from the web page in the link above)

To:

514 error_reporting = E_ALL

I then saved this file.

I then deactivated web sharing in System Preferences and since then have not been able to restart Web Sharing. I click it and it flashes orange for a second then does not start.

This was all done to activate PHP on my iMac so I can host my own site which has a PHP contact form page.

Please help I am so out of my depth I am very worried I may have changed things and I am going to forget what I did.

If you need to know anything then please ask.

Thank you so much

sfergusson1

'JollyoldEngland'

Thannks a lot; building up this symlink helped my to get my Mac OS X Lion Server (10.7.3) Profile Manager and Wiki services to finaly run.

hello @chewynougat

i created the link per your suggestion...sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpq.5.3.dylib /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib

i do see the link created..

bash-3.2# ls -alt libpq*.*

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 May 4 08:58 libpq.5.dylib -> /usr/lib/libpq.5.3.dylib

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 4 08:57 libpq.5.3.dylib

however, when i click on web sharing, i am still unable to start it. do you have any idea? please reply to my email, if possible, monkeycsk@gmail.com