Archive for April 2011
Fixing “invalid command…” When Trying to Start Apache
This is just an FYI post for those honorable and brave techies who would rather geek out with OS-level files and settings than let MAMP have all the fun. Actually, I had MAMP installed and I uninstalled it because I felt… cheated some how. I mean, it handled everything; the setup of Apache, MySQL, and PHP! It didn’t leave me anything to do but use them – how quaint! So, I decided to re-enable these tools in the native environment and live up to my esteemed title of grandeur… Geek! lol! 
MySQL was up and running in no time, and I also got the latest MySQL Workbench to manage it. PHP was a snap to setup because I had this configuration before, so I just used the old PHP.ini. Apache, on the other hand, decided to cause me some grief. I kept getting this message in my logs…
I remembered that unix files sometimes has problems if the document type/encoding is not setup correctly, and I noticed my file setting in TextWrangler…
Notice the Western (Mac OS Roman) and Classic Mac (CR) settings. This will NOT work! At least not for me. I resolved the issue by changing this file to a unix file like this…
After this change, I restart the Apache Controller with:
… and Apache started right up with no issues.
I hope this helps someone! Cheers!
