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How to install a copy of Apache into a local custom directory via Terminal (to ~/Desktop/ for example), so it can live without conflicts with another global version of Apache and I cant start and stop it from there?

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homebrew

Consider using homebrew to manage a private, isolated, installation of Apache httpd on your Mac.

To install brew and Apache httpd on your Mac, follow the steps on homebrew; the two main steps are:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

This will install the brew command line tool.

Next use jabberwik's tap to install httpd:

brew tap jabberwik/homebrew-httpd
brew install httpd24

MAMP

An alternative approach is to use a pre-packaged application, such as MAMP. Running MAMP will immediately provide Apache httpd, PHP and MySQL preconfigured and ready to use.

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    +1 for MAMP, absolutely love it and use it all the time.
    – Dave Nelson
    Jan 3, 2014 at 21:00
  • When I run this, it doesn't include any of the apache modules so I get errors like httpd: Syntax error on line 171 of /usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4/httpd.conf: Cannot load libexec/mod_rewrite.so
    – AlxVallejo
    Dec 3, 2015 at 19:13
  • Also that github repo is a 404
    – AlxVallejo
    Dec 3, 2015 at 19:34

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