Before you begin, you should know that the HTTPD server is very likely already comes with your MacOSX! For example, here is how my server looks like:
$ apachectl -t -D DUMP_INCLUDES
Included configuration files:
(*) /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
(498) /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-mpm.conf
(504) /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf
(544) /private/etc/apache2/other/php7.conf
You would want to compile and buid your own HTTPD server if you like to customize your own build or doing modules development. In that case, read on.
#
# Requirement:
# MacOSX Version:
# Darwin myhost 17.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.4.0: Sun Dec 17 09:19:54 PST 2017; root:xnu-4570.41.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
# HTTPD version 2.4.9
#
# Install xcode that comes with C compiler
xcode-select --install
# Install package manager for macosx
# install brew from https://brew.sh
#
# NOTE: If your brew installation have probblem with error writing to /usr/local
# then try to uninstall then install brew again.
#
# Uninstall
# /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
#
# Install
# /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
#
# Install make tools and required libraries
brew install autoconf automake libtool pcre
git clone git://git.apache.org/httpd.git
cd httpd
git checkout 2.4.9
# You also need to get the required library sources
cd srclib
git clone git://git.apache.org/apr.git
cd apr
git checkout 1.6.3
cd ../
git clone git://git.apache.org/apr-util.git
cd apr-util
git checkout 1.6.1
cd ../../
./buildconf
./configure
make
sudo make install
# When completed successful, the HTTPD server will be in /usr/local/apache2
