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!
