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I am using OS X El Capitan with the Server (app) configured to allow me VPN access to my home network. Unfortunately, the Server app has decided to start a bunch of httpd processes, which are now listening on ports 80, 443 and others, even though the Server settings for Websites is OFF and no services should be started on these ports.
I do not want or need these services active and would like httpd to be shut down (or not start to begin with). Unfortunately, I can neither kill those processes (they just restart straight away) nor can I control them through launchctl.
sudo lsof -i :80
httpd 422 root 5u IPv6 0x7... 0t0 TCP *:http (LISTEN)
httpd 425 _www 5u IPv6 0x7... 0t0 TCP *:http (LISTEN)
ps u 422
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
root 422 0.0 0.0 2457156 6136 ?? Ss 5:55PM 0:00.07 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf -E /private/var/log
When trying:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist: Could not find specified service
So, how do I terminate those processes and free up those ports?
I know there is a config file for the apache server here: /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf
I can remove the following lines to unblock those ports, but the httpd processes are still running.
listen 80
listen 443
3This turned out to be exactly the solution for me. "sudo apachectl stop" just gave the same error as launchctl. – Kosmonaut – 2016-09-12T19:26:55.590