This is a simple post mainly for my notes incase I need to recapitulate what should be done to restore running of my virtually hosted websites on my laptop.
Ever since I installed <code>httpd</code> on my macOS 15.1 using homebrew and configured my virtual hosts on it and upon macOS updates which resulted in a restart of the laptop, my virtual hosts websites stopped working.
After many updates I found that there’s an apache2 service also running in the background and upon going to <a href="http://local.myWebsite.com" class="autolinkedURL autolinkedURL-url" target="_blank">local.myWebsite.com</a> it was trying to detect the virtual host from Apache’s config and not the <code>httpd</code>’s one.
So I had to stop Apache2 and <code>httpd</code> and start <code>httpd</code>. Only then my virtual hosts were back running properly.
<pre><code class="lang-bash">sudo apachectl stop
brew services stop httpd
brew services start httpd
</code></pre>

This is a simple post mainly for my *notes* incase I need to recapitulate what should be done to restore running of my virtually hosted websites on my laptop.

Ever since I installed `httpd` on my macOS 15.1 using **homebrew** and configured my virtual hosts on it and upon macOS updates which resulted in a restart of the laptop, my virtual hosts websites stopped working.

After many updates I found that there’s an **apache2** service also running in the background and upon going to local.myWebsite.com it was trying to detect the virtual host from Apache’s config and not the `httpd`’s one.

So I had to stop Apache2 and `httpd` and start `httpd`. Only then my virtual hosts were back running properly.

```bash
sudo apachectl stop
brew services stop httpd
brew services start httpd
```

Stop one service from blocking the other service that performs the same function

apache2 and httpd being run on macOS simultaneously

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