creating startupitem for apache2

[sam452 (sam walton)]

Thanks for the MacPorts project! I've successfully got my apache 2.4 running on an old PowerPC serving several sites.
But whenever this is a power failure, I've always had to manually start apache. I can see in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ other port start plist files but not apache.
sudo port load apache2 fails at:

:error:load Failed to load apache2: Launchd plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist was not found
:debug:load Error code: NONE
:debug:load Backtrace: Launchd plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist was not found
:debug:load Backtrace: Launchd plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist was not found
:debug:load     while executing
:debug:load "portstartupitem::foreach_startupitem {
:debug:load         if {(![info exists ::portstartupitem::load_only] || $si_name
 in ${::portstartupitem::load_only})

So it would appear that info exists::portstartupitem::load_only exists since it expects it's already instantiated. I thought I could find in your GitHub repo this file, but reading ​https://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.startupitems.html suggests this is created when apache2 was installed.

I attempted to run

sudo port startupitem.create

but that failed as expected.

My question is how to instantiate this plist without reinstalling apache2?
thx, sam

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The apache2 port does install the file /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist, unless you have configured MacPorts not to install such plists.