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Can't start httpd – Failure while executing; `/bin/launchctl bootstrap gui/501 /Users/*/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist` exited with 5 – Apache

Just tried accessing my localhost today, but it doesn’t work. I worked yesterday, but I believe it’s because my Mac crashed. I’ve tried started httpd again with brew services start httpd. This results in:

Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error
Try re-running the command as root for richer errors.
Error: Failure while executing; /bin/launchctl bootstrap gui/501 /Users/UserName/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist exited with 5.

Have tried reinstalling httpd, but it still gives the same error.
Any ideas what the cause can be?

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    So after trying a lot of things, this seemed to work:

    Trying what Volex suggests here (brew services. Cant start service. get "Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error") gave me a more precise error message.

    The new error message led me to this: apache doesn't work after upgrade of macOs Sierra brew reinstall apr-util fixed the problem.


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    I had the same problem after I upgraded to macOS Monterey. But I solved my issue via these commands.

    Unload homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist

    launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist

    And then load it again:

    launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist

    After that I used this command to start httpd again.

    brew services start httpd
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    After trying ALL the solutions proposed all over the place, what finally did it for me was changing the owner of the log files in /usr/local/var/log/httpd to my user, instead of root.

    sudo chown [username] *

    This took me hours to figure out, sadly – I even removed and reinstalled httpd (which was actually a good thing, because there was a n older version’s keg knocking around back there).

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    Just thought I’d share what worked for me for anyone else still stuck…

    It seemed I had a version of apache running which was stopping the brew version. (thought I’d removed the built in apache already!).

    This also happened after my Mac crashed and got the exact same error message but I did:

    Stop brew httpd service completely

    brew services stop httpd

    Stop Mac Apache leftovers

    sudo apachectl -k stop

    Start brew httpd again

    brew services start httpd

    Started like a charm and solved my issue.

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    In some cases will help restart HTTPD.

    brew services restart httpd

    It happens to me when the PC crashes for some reason and httpd is running, but localhost is "down".
    Or you can stop httpd and restart PC. Then start httpd and it’s ok.

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    I had the same problem after any Restart my Macbook.
    I’m using Macbook Air m1 and Monterey OS version.

    I have solved my problem with these 4 command

    At first run:

    sudo apachectl -k stop

    After that run these three command:
    (note: do not run as sudo)

    launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist

launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist

brew services start httpd

    Then you can see run services with command below:

    brew services list
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    for me I got quite same problem once I have tried to start postgresql forgetting that I have already started it, after stopping it and started it again it worked

    user@users-MacBook-Pro ~ % brew services start postgresql
Warning: Use postgresql@14 instead of deprecated postgresql
Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error
Try re-running the command as root for richer errors.
Error: Failure while executing; `/bin/launchctl bootstrap gui/501 /Users/user/Library/LaunchAgents/[email protected]` exited with 5.
user@users-MacBook-Pro ~ % brew services stop postgresql 
Warning: Use postgresql@14 instead of deprecated postgresql
Stopping `postgresql@14`... (might take a while)
==> Successfully stopped `postgresql@14` (label: homebrew.mxcl.postgresql@14)
user@users-MacBook-Pro ~ % 
user@users-MacBook-Pro ~ % brew services start postgresql
Warning: Use postgresql@14 instead of deprecated postgresql
==> Successfully started `postgresql@14` (label: homebrew.mxcl.postgresql@14)
user@users-MacBook-Pro ~ %
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    Deleting access_log and error_log in the log directory may help you reproduce the problem as sometimes those files are not writable.

    After deleting them, those files will be created by the user and the error will be logged there.

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