There’s an Apache2 in OSX!!!

Apache2! It’s been awhile since I touched httpd.conf… so many memories… 😉

It’s all described in this tutorial: http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/02/start-apache-web-server-mac-os-x/

It’s dead simple – see/edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to find or set DirectoryRoot (mind directory access rights) and run “sudo apachectl start” (stop, restart).

To enable user websites, add following to etc/apache2/users/USERNAME.conf :

<Directory "/Users/USERNAME/Sites/">
Options Indexes Multiviews
AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

and then it’d be served as http://127.0.0.1/~USERNAME/

Also, generating self-signed certificates: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl-certificate-self

And adding them to OSX keychain: https://tosbourn.com/getting-os-x-to-trust-self-signed-ssl-certificates/

And you’d need to put them into /private/etc/apache2/ssl/ and (potentially) edit /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf and enable (uncomment)

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

and

LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so

in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

and run “apachectl restart” as root.

Champagne for all!

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