apache2

• download source from http://httpd.apache.org/

# we can comment out modules we don't want later
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --mandir=/usr/local/man --infodir=/usr/local/info --enable-modules=all --enable-mods-shared=all

make

make install

ServerName

ServerName localhost

DirectoryIndex

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.shtml default.html default.htm

# you must specify the path to apachectl because Apple has one in another place
sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop