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MacOS Update Breaks Apache... Again

Many things irritate me, so take this post with a grain of salt, but I hate the fact every significant MacOS update breaks my development environment. The latest was a security update to Catalina, MacOS 10.15.7. I have learned to test things out (Apache/PHP/MySQL) immediately after these updates, and I discovered (again), that Apache was broken. Now, admittedly, this is because I am using a different version of Apache from the one distributed by Apple, and installed using MacPorts. So I guess this is just something I have to live with.

In any case, this time it was fairly simple to fix. The /var/log/apache2 directory was wiped clean, and all of my individual directories for my virtual host log files were all gone. A quick restore from Time Machine fixed this, and I was able to restart apache. The rest of the "stack" appears to be untouched.