Apache won't start after update

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Apache won't start after updating it and php to 7.2

I was trying to update my php version from 7.1 to 7.2, but then apache didn't use it, so i update it as well. Now I have php 7.2 installed and XAMPP 7.2.22. But when I try to start it, it says 'Starting...' for a while and then 'Stopped'

The error_logs only show this:

[Tue Sep 10 11:10:38.878211 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 105] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down

[Tue Sep 10 11:11:19.745774 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 104] AH00163: Apache/2.4.34 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations

[Tue Sep 10 11:11:19.866352 2019] [core:notice] [pid 104] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'

Did you make sure there are no other httpd processes running before starting it? — Amine Zaine
@Amine Zaine with sudo brew services list it shows me that it is stopped, with sudo killall httpd no output and with sudo apachectl stop the output is httpd (no pid file) not running, when i try to force quit the two in the Activity Monitor others start. What did I miss? — Nina

Ryan Farrell Ryan Farrell · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-01T14:23:16

I experienced this last week. I used sudo apachectl stop, but the "/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND" process was still running. So, I did this:

$ ps -ef | grep httpd
    0    83     1   0  8:40AM ??         0:00.39 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
  501  2245   993   0  9:15AM ttys000    0:00.00 grep httpd
$ sudo kill -9 83
$ ps -ef | grep httpd
  501  2422   993   0  9:20AM ttys000    0:00.00 grep httpd
$ sudo apachectl start

All was well after that!

Be sure to check your httpd.conf file to make sure it is unchanged, too.

Apache won't start after update

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