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Truper63 Author

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5 points

Apache web server won't start. org.apache.httpd.plist: Operation already in progress

After upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite, Apache web server will not run when issuing the command sudo apachectl start. I get the message "org.apache.httpd.plist: Operation already in progress"

I am a web developer and a Mac newbie. No changes have been made to the .conf files. I had upgraded php when I was on Mavericks. The upgrade to PHP 6 was successful. I have created a username.conf file in the /etc/apache2/users folder so that I can create my web sites in my user directory. Again, all of this was working on Mavericks before I upgraded to Yosemite.

Now I just cannot start Apache. Any help would be appreciated.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Apache web server

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 6:05 AM

22 replies

Truper63 Author

Level 1

5 points

Oct 26, 2014 2:05 PM in response to SaeidZebardast

The output is:

Shawns-iMac:users shawn$ ls -l /Users/shawn/Sites/

total 16

-rw-r--r-- 1 shawn staff 29 Oct 11 17:14 index.html

drwxr-xr-x 3 shawn staff 102 Oct 16 22:34 lottery_pool

-rw-r--r-- 1 shawn staff 20 Oct 14 18:15 my_phpinfo.php

Shawns-iMac:users shawn$

Truper63 Author

Level 1

5 points

Oct 26, 2014 2:17 PM in response to Truper63

By the way, you had asked how I updated my PHP to 5.6.

Per the PHP.NET documentation for installing on Mac OS X, I used the the liip package option. Liip: » http://php-osx.liip.ch

On the Liip web page I simply copied the terminal command and ran it in my terminal session.

The command for updating to 5.6 was curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.6

Oct 29, 2014 12:08 AM in response to Truper63

What's the content of "/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf" ?
You should uncomment the following line in the "httpd-userdir.conf":

UserDir Sites

Truper63 Author

Level 1

5 points

Oct 29, 2014 6:33 PM in response to SaeidZebardast

Yes, that line is uncommented.

The contents:

UserDir Sites

# Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example

# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.

Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf

<IfModule bonjour_module>

RegisterUserSite customized-users

</IfModule>

Oct 29, 2014 10:59 PM in response to Truper63

Unfortunately I have no idea about fixing your problem. You can check all configs again to make sure they are ok.

xl1000

Level 1

0 points

Jan 2, 2015 12:43 PM in response to SaeidZebardast

One could also fix the issue by pointing to the correct so file that is asked for.

In my case the lib5php5.so file was of the wrong version for my environment.

I changed the file into :

....

#LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so

LoadModule php5_module /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

....

After pointing to the other file, the start went without issues.

ankit9j

Level 1

19 points

Oct 5, 2015 7:05 AM in response to SaeidZebardast

$ sudo apachectl # without any parameter (stop/start/restart)

showed my problem was due to syntax error in file /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-mpm.conf on LockFile "/private/var/log/apache2/accept.lock"

# The accept serialization lock file MUST BE STORED ON A LOCAL DISK.

LockFile "/private/var/log/apache2/accept.lock"

</IfModule>

I just #ed this line to fix it

Apache web server won't start. org.apache.httpd.plist: Operation already in progress