Re: Uninstalling PHP?

""Austin Powers"" <AustinPowers@pobox.com> wrote in message news:CA.B0.29124.619A88B4@pb1.pair.com... > Three weeks ago I was working through the Lynda.com "PHP with MySQL > Training" because I wanted to begin using PHP (surprise, surprise). > > Anyway, on this video course the teacher explains that because installing > PHP and MySQL is so well understood on a Mac that we may as well just > follow > his steps and do it manually. Well, he is installing a different version > of > PHP and MySQL to the ones that I was able to download and while what he > was > saying way somewhat similar I am guessing that there is a difference > somewhere, and (well) it's not working. > > I AM A COMPLETE NOVICE WITH LINUX/FREEBSD. It had not been my intention > to > learn the intricacies of Linux. However, I am now neck deep in a mire of > confusion that even MAMP can't seem to sort out for me. > > It is purely a guess that I need to start again from a complete clean > setup > (reformatting my hard disk and reinstall OS X again) but that is pretty > much > out of the question. > > I guess my question is: > > "How can I completely uninstall PHP so that I can start again?" > > Thanks. > I did a: find / -name 'apachectl' 2. /dev/null and it came back with: /usr/sbin/apachectl /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/apachectl so I do: cd /Application/MAMP/Library/bin and then: ./apachectl graceful and it came back with: httpd not running, trying to start (13) permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address {::]:80 (13 permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs Does this mean that httpd is not running, and that I need to make some change to the httpd.conf file? If so, then what changes do I need to make?