XAMPP Automatically start Apache (MacOS)

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Automatically start XAMPP Apache when logging into MacOSX.

1. Create xampp.startapache.plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons with the following content :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
 <dict>
  <key>Label</key>
    <string>org.xampp.server</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp</string>
      <string>startapache</string>
  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
  <key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
    <true/>
  </dict>
</plist>

2. Run the following commands

sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/xampp.startapache.plist
sudo chmod 644 /Library/LaunchDaemons/xampp.startapache.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/xampp.startapache.plist

XAMPP will automatically start apache on startup, the LaunchDaemon can be modified if needed to start Apache, MySQL, ProFTPd.