Mavericks Apache localhost unreachable

Hi there,
I have already read few thread about broken apache ;
unfortunatly I am still unable to make it work
Would you help me to repair my web server step by step ? Thanks
OS X is Mavericks.
I don't use any "AMP" package.
I did reformat my HD and re-install Mavericks then restore a Time Machine backup using Migrate Assistant.
Using Monitor I don't see any apachectl nor httpd process ?
Using Terminal :
sudo apachectl configtest : Syntax OK
sudo apachectl start : org.apache.httpd: Already loaded
That's all folks
No idea where to go à

Hi there.
I am not a UNIX warrior. I made many discoveries.
Here are some of the very interesting file and tools I found that solve the problem.
Launch Console
look the last log from Mavericks just after doing a sudo apachectl restart
I read a lot of (every 10 sec)
13/02/2014 18:59:19,688 ReportCrash[785]: Saved crash report for httpd[792] version 786 to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/httpd_2014-02-13-185919_iMac.crash
If you click on the line it pop up and you see show "open report". If not, just look for the file and open it.
In the report I read :
PlugIn Path: /Applications/ColdFusion10/*/mod_jk.so
PlugIn Identifier: mod_jk.so
PlugIn Version: ??? (???)
re-open the httpd.conf
comment the line "Include /private/etc/apache2/mod_jk.conf"
Now Apache is Ok.
I was in trouble with ColdFusion.
Those logs files are gold as soon as you know where to find them.

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shegolfs wrote:
> can't get a connection to the database in the production
server. I receive the
> message "Access denied for user 'apache'@'localhost'
(using password: NO)" when
> the form is submitting .
Judging from your later comments, that's because the script
isn't using
the file in the Connections folder.
> I do not have access to the root area of the site. Is
this the problem? Should
> I have the hosting service upload the Connections and
the _mmscripts folders
> into the root area?
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folder,
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I recently activated the apache that ships with OS X Mavericks. I followed some tutorial to set up the web-server, however. When I browse to my home-filter at http://localhost/~nazeem, I get the following error: You don't have permission to access /~nazeem/ on this server.
Installation steps
To set up the webserver, I took the following steps:
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Versions
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Apache 2.2.26
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nzm_aak wrote:
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I have been successfully running MAMP, a personal Apache server with MySQL, on my MacBook Pro using OSX 10.6.4. This is so I can create a Wordpress blog locally to later upload to my remote website.
Yesterday, I updated my Firefox browser from 3.6 to 5.0 (and added the following extensions: Better Privacy 1.51, Bloody Vikings! 0.5.3, Copy as HTML Link 2.0, Firebug 1.7.3, Firepicker 1.3.4, NoScript 2.1.1.2, and Ultimate Free Stock Photo Search Add-on 1.0.1, TypeGauge 0.5, and Zotero 2.1.8)
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Forbidden
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This error is not added to the log file but displayed instead on the screen. Morever, files with names mm.*.sem and mm.*.mem are created in $ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs.
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Michel -
Any time. That's quite odd. And has your /etc/hosts
file changed at all? Is the first line setup
correctly to only include localhost and
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Are you calling apachctl from
$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/bin? Well, I copy the file to /etc/init.d and launch Apache from there at startup. The reason is that I have changed the ports on which Apaceh will listen to 80.
You said you could
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ping localhost
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( 1 )'/etc/apache2/httpd.conf' shows the DocumenRoot as '/Library/WebServer/Documents', as has been standard for previous OSX versions.
( 2 ) Create a simple php file 'local_info.php' and drop it into the DocumenRoot.
( 3 ) try to access : https://localhost/local_info.php
( 4 ) the page is not served, and I get a 'Not Found' error.
( 5 ) Go to '/var/log/apache2/error_log'
[Sat Feb 04 15:21:48 2012] [error] [client ::1]
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( 6 ) If I go to 'System Preferences -> Sharing -> Web Sharing' and restart Apache, then try to access the page nothing changes, the 'Not Found' error persists.
( 7 ) If I copy 'local_info.php' from '/Library/WebServer/Documents/local_info.php' to '/var/empty/local_info.php' and then point the browser to
( 8 ) try to access : https://localhost/local_info.php
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This is basically pretty much pristine copy of 'OS X Lion -> OS X Lion Server' with 'Server.app -> Services -> Web' turned off for the moment. During this testing phase I am only trying '/Library/WebServer/Documents', and not the virtual hosts.
I have the virtual hosts working very well through 'Server.app -> Services -> Web' which like I said above is turned off for the moment. The only problem I ran into there was that '/etc/hosts' was not being modified when a new virtual host was added via 'Server.app -> Services -> Web', but that was under OS X Server Lion 10.7.2, since I created the virtual hosts, I installed the Combo Updater for Lion Server 10.7.3, and I have not tried to create any new virtual hosts since then.
It is interesting that towards the bottom of httpd.conf there are some flags that load different pieces of code depending upon what flags are set. What is even more interesting is that both 'Server.app -> Services -> Web', and 'System Preferences -> Sharing -> Web Sharing' use one common '/etc/apache2/httpd.conf' file, which depending upon which flags are set during Apache startup load different config code. At least I think it is interesting...
These are the flags I noticed in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
<IfDefine !MACOSXSERVER>
<IfDefine MACOSXSERVER>
<IfDefine WEBSERVICE_ON>
<IfDefine !WEBSERVICE_ON>
<IfDefine WEBSHARING_ON>
# Here only 'System Preferences -> Sharing -> Web Sharing' is running
$ ps aux | grep httpd
root            ... /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D MACOSXSERVER -D WEBSHARING_ON
_www            ... /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D MACOSXSERVER -D WEBSHARING_ON
# Here only 'Server.app -> Services -> Web' is running
$ ps aux | grep httpd
root            ... /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D MACOSXSERVER -D WEBSERVICE_ON
_www            ... /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D MACOSXSERVER -D WEBSERVICE_ON
$
# Here both 'Server.app -> Services -> Web', and 'System Preferences -> Sharing -> Web Sharing' are running
$ ps aux | grep httpd
_www            ... /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D MACOSXSERVER -D WEBSERVICE_ON -D WEBSHARING_ON
root            ... /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D MACOSXSERVER -D WEBSERVICE_ON -D WEBSHARING_ON
$
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open -a /Applications/BBEdit.app ~/.bashrc
open -a /Applications/BBEdit.app ~/.bash_history
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I've learned some interesting things since I posted the original message on this thread a couple of days ago.
I had looked at the 'Include directives towards the bottom of httpd.conf, and I did a quick search on 'DocumentRoot' and hit the 'previous' button in BBEdit's find dialog. Sure enough it came up with:
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
However if I would have started the search from the top of the document I would have noticed that '/var/empty' that I found in the logs was not a bug, not an error, but by design.
If I would have gone a few lines further up I would have seen :
<IfDefine MACOSXSERVER>
DocumentRoot /var/empty
which explains it all. How incredibly cool, this is really clever!
This morning I went back to httpd.conf
sudo open -a /Applications/BBEdit.app /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
and right at the top of the document staring me right in the face was:
# Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server
# The <IfDefine> blocks segregate server-specific directives
# and also directives that only apply when Web Sharing or
# server Web Service (as opposed to other services that need Apache) is on.
# The launchd plist sets appropriate Define parameters.
# Generally, desktop has no vhosts and server does; server has added modules,
# custom virtual hosts are only activated when Web Service is on, and
# default document root and personal web sites at ~username are only
# activated when Web Sharing is on.
Basically on the Lion Server you are not relying on DocumentRoot, everything is done via the VIrtual Hosts in 'Server.app -> Services -> Web'.
The default Virtual Host when you first launch 'Server.app -> Services -> Web' is <whatever_hostname_you_gave_your_computer>.local, and it points to /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default, at this point there is no localhost defined as you are used to seeing, there is only /var/empty.
As soon as you create a localhost Virtual host in 'Server.app -> Services -> Web', and the instance of Apache stops and restarts everything works as expected, http://localhost shows a webpage with 'It works!'.
The moral to this whole story is that after having read/modified countless httpd.conf documents, and manually creating the Virtual Hosts, and Includes, and not bothering to read '/etc/apache2/httpd.conf' for Lion Server, it is currently printing and I have my yellow highlighter ready so I can go through it and expand the wisdom level from none to minimal...
I am off to read !
Oh, one thing I did do is drop a copy of a 'local_info.php' that I created that provides some info during testing while I am figuring all this out, but basically the gist is that I put this : <?php echo(__FILE__); ?> along with some other little bits of info anytime the page was hit. I dropped it into several of the virtual hosts I created to make sure I understand how this is all working.

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