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    copied!<p>So I've been working with several Virtual Hosts on OS X 10.8.2. I'm using the Apache2 installation and MySQL to run name-based virtual hosts. They have all been working perfectly fine until last night. Suddenly, all of my virtual hosts redirect to a "Cannot connect to" page.</p> <p>After fiddling around and eventually checking the error logs, I've concluded that Apache is NOT actually running. For example, ps aux | grep apache only returns the grep process. However, if I try sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start I get "org.apache.httpd: Already loaded" in response.</p> <p>I've checked my httpd.conf file and it looks perfectly fine. I can't see any changes to it. I also ran the syntax check command (which escapes my brain at the exact moment), and it returned OK. The only thing I found in my error logs, the last thing, was from yesterday, Feb 21, and it says: "[Thu Feb 21 21:46:02 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down"</p> <p>Ever since then, my Apache errors logs contain nothing (because it's not running). I've restarted, tried restarting apache; I'm at a total loss as to why it thinks it's running even though it is not.</p> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p>In /var/logs/system.log when I try to start and restart Apache:</p> <pre><code>Feb 23 09:27:00 Baileys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[8766]): Exited with code: 1 Feb 23 09:27:00 Baileys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Feb 23 09:27:10 Baileys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[8767]): Exited with code: 1 Feb 23 09:27:10 Baileys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Feb 23 09:27:16 Baileys-MacBook-Pro.local sudo[8769]: bailey : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/private/var/log ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/apachectl start Feb 23 09:27:20 Baileys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[8772]): Exited with code: 1 Feb 23 09:27:20 Baileys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Feb 23 09:27:20 Baileys-MacBook-Pro.local sudo[8773]: bailey : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/private/var/log ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/apachectl restart Feb 23 09:27:20 Baileys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[8777]): Exited with code: 1 Feb 23 09:27:20 Baileys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Feb 23 09:27:26 Baileys-MacBook-Pro.local sudo[8778]: bailey : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/private/var/log ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/vi system.log </code></pre> <p>This problem persists after rebooting. Ever since the other day, it will not start but believes the httpd module is loaded.</p> <p>I'm trying to find out via Google, but -- does anyone know how Apache checks if it's loaded? I know a lot of services lock files to run; is it possible Apache has a lock file somewhere that's still locked despite Apache not currently running?</p> <p><br><br> NOTE: I've posted this on ServerFault, as well -- I'm posting this here as well because so far I'm not getting anything on ServerFault and I've been looking at Apache posts on StackOverflow, so I'm assuming Apache questions are fine for Stack.</p>
 

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