Comments on: Workaround for when MAMP fails to stop or start

By: Martin Smith

Martin Smith — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:56:55 +0000

I never associated a power cut with my MAMP issue until reading your article. My MAMP is broken AGAIN for the fourth time this year, sure enough we had a power cut this morning. This workaround has saved me yet another complete re-install - thanks

By: netmastan

netmastan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:45 +0000

Thanks but didn’t work. MYSQL won’t start.

By: Xilocex

Xilocex — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:10:26 +0000

Great tip!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:09:05 +0000

Thanks. Worked like a charm.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:12:17 +0000

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much!

By: dascope

dascope — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:55:37 +0000

Thank you, I was already dreading spending my afternoon on hunting a fix to this rather than doing the work I’m supposed to be doing.

By: KC

KC — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:19:29 +0000

Big help - thank you!
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MAMP 1.7.1
Mac OS X 10.5.3
MacBook 2.4 GHz

By: Francis R

Francis R — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:43:26 +0000

Hi again

I am enjoying my noob Unix adventure… I have found that it was necessary to add the subnet mask address and the localhost address to my whitelist, to make sure things work.

So now, my directive looks like this:

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 123.456.78.90/255.255.255.0
Allow from 127.0.0.1

That means that only I can see stuff.

I just need to add another “Allow from… ” line for a different IP address.

Great!

By: sairuh

sairuh — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:28:59 +0000

Hi Francis, thanks for the tip! Especially if I find myself needing to configure the httpd.conf in MAMP.

By: Francis R

Francis R — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:25:44 +0000

Me again. I’ve figured it out!

I also checked my Console, which told me I had a syntax error in my httpd.conf file.

I had:

Order allow,deny
Allow from 123.456.78.90
Deny all

instead of:
Order allow,deny
Allow from 123.456.78.90
Deny from all

It’s always something simpe! Time for a cup of coffee, I think.

Thanks again for the great workaround.

By: Francis R

Francis R — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:09:26 +0000

Great tip… but it didn’t work for me. I think I might have killed my MAMP Apache installation!

I had been playing with the allow/deny directives in httpd.conf, and stopping and starting the servers quite a bit.

Now only MySQL will start, and even with this trick, Apache refuses to do anything.

:o(

Does anyone have any ideas?

By: kuswanto

kuswanto — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:40:30 +0000

That’s awesome. I just got the error.

By: Kevin R

Kevin R — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:01:08 +0000

(not the same person as the last Kevin

I have had this problem intermittently over the last year or so. I always ended up uninstalling and reinstalling MAMP to try to fix the problem. THANK YOU for this workaround as it saved me the headache of backing up all of my files before re-installing.

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:30:27 +0000

thanks!very useful…

By: Warren Prasek

Warren Prasek — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:04:45 +0000

Thankyou *so* much for posting this… I’ve had this MAMP problem repeatedly over the past couple of weeks since switching back to mac (yay) and it was driving me nuts! Feeling much better now. Aaaaahhhh.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:12:00 +0000

Awesome. thanks!

By: IMventurer

IMventurer — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:32:35 +0000

Thanx… MAMP stayed open I think when my MAC crashed, and I couldn’t restart Apache & MYSQL. Works perfectly now!

By: webchick

webchick — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:28:18 +0000

Thankfully, found this post via http://www.ancientwisdompro.com/blog/archives/214 before ripping out too many clumps of my hair. Thanks SO much!

By: Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:00:40 +0000

Had never experienced this until today, and was so grateful to find this. Thank you!

By: sairuh

sairuh — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:06:16 +0000

Glad it helped, Chris!