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How can I recover the apachectl on my OSX?

I deleted it, somehow, and now the command apachectl doesn't exist anymore.

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Do you... have any backups? use Time Machine? have the 10.8 install media? – jscott Jan 31 at 1:50
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/usr/sbin isn't in your PATH usually. What does ls -l /usr/sbin/apachectl return? – patrix♦ Jan 31 at 6:44
@jscott I have a Macbook Pro, there is no install media, and no, I don't use Time Machine, at least until it happened. – Daniel Ribeiro Jan 31 at 10:31
@patrix returns ls: /usr/sbin/apachectl: No such file or directory – Daniel Ribeiro Jan 31 at 10:32
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@patrix In lieu of building apache from Apple's source, it may be quicker to find another 10.8 user and get a copy from them. – jscott Jan 31 at 12:01
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On 10.8 apachectl is a ~50 SLOC shell script. I uploaded the one from my installation here. For example apachectl start just runs (sudo) launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist, so you don't necessarily even need apachectl.

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If you build Apache httpd from the source code, you can get the apachectl binary from <apache_src_dir>/support/apachectl.

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Welcome to Ask Different! Can you please elaborate the answer to explain how one can rebuild apache from source? – patrix♦ Feb 25 at 7:48

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