brew services start httpd does not work

bashaar115 wrote:

Thanks for the reply! I would like to stay on this path. would this command line be in the homebrew folders? httpd.conf?

The brew install is seemingly broken.

The protection on the plist is apparently incorrect.

Here is what a working launch agent looks like:

$ ls -l /Users/mrhoffman/Library/LaunchAgents/
…
-rw-r--r--  1 mrhoffman  staff  {size} {date} {path}
…

You’ll be using chmod and chown to make your file protection mode and file ownership settings look like that.

If the ls command shows differences, then the commands are roughly these, using your file path to plist and your shortname:

chmod u=rw,go=r /Users/bashaar/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist
chown bashaar:staff /Users/bashaar/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist

What else might also be broken here?

After you get this and maybe other issues related to whatever (didn’t) happen here all working, you’ll probably want to integrate php or Python or various Apache plugins or such. Which is yet more involved.

I would again encourage using MAMP here.

Easiest: Download the MAMP app (it’s free) and use that. That’s a prepackaged web server environment with various related add-on apps that is configured for and useful for prototyping and development.

If you want to stay on the path you’re on, you’ll need to open up at least read permissions to that directory to the web server (usually _www) user. There should be a command line chacl or chmod command documented somewhere in whatever you’re reading to set up those file and directory protections appropriately.

The command line tools are not related to that error.