MAMP failure to launch Apache solved!
There’s a ton of posts out on Google about this, yet few that actually have the answer. If you don’t know about MAMP, it’s a great all-in-one MySQL-PHP-Apache manager for the Mac. Great for local development and testing of sites and Wordpress blogs.
The other day, all of a sudden, the “red light” was on next to Apache – it just wouldn’t start up. I tried switching ports, etc., nothing worked. Looking through the logs found this line “caught SIGTERM, shutting down.” Many people have had this problem and have resorted to reinstalls, messing with Apache settings, etc.
Easy solution that worked for me: System Preferences/Sharing – uncheck the “Web Sharing” checkbox.