Hi all-

I spent all day trying to get apache2 installed via fink on my new  
iMac (intel) with 10.4.

I was having problems with:

fink install apache2

The dependencies (particularly the mpm) were failing. I finally  
figured it out...

Something in the "configure" portion of the apache-mpm-* script  
actually runs httpd. If the server fails to come up clean, the  
configure bails. However, it doesn't shut down your httpd.

So, what you need to do is make sure that httpd can come up cleanly.  
Usually at least you'll have apache2ctl installed, so you can use  
stop/start to try to do this, or if need be, kill. Definitely use ps  
since the failure can result in apache2ctl not seeing a pid file and  
thus *incorrectly* reporting that apache2 isn't running.

Since I was also running the built-in httpd, the apache2 one couldn't  
come up and that was the problem. As soon as I killed the built-in  
one, the "orphaned" (/sw/sbin/apache2), and reconfigured the  
apache2.conf so that it could come up, I was able to complete the  
install.

Just wanted to post this since I wasted about 8 hours today figuring  
this out.

Good luck,
Alan

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