I normally develop in ruby and serve my developement site with pow.cx. For some client work I have to work with php and drupal. I had quite a bit of set up problems and incompatibilities between apache / php / Mamp and my pow server.
I've tried to set things up as mentioned there: https://github.com/37signals/pow/wiki/Running-Pow-with-Apache
When I leave Mamp on port 888 everything is fine, but when i want to run mamp and pow on port 80 i start to have regular problems.
To try to fix the issue I have installed Apple Server app. I now regret it.
If i turn websites on in the server app. Server takes over my pow url. If i turn websites off, i can't access the pow url at all (says i have to turn websites on).
If i remove the Server app completely and restart, i can access Pow again, but Mamp refuse to start apache, saying that it can't resolve the domain name set up by the Server App.
So Is there a way to remove and clean the Server app setup completely?
I'm not sure what the cleanest way to remove the Apple Server app. But at least I manage to get Mamp work again.
I had ot add an alias in my /etc/hosts files with the current name of my local machine
127.0.0.1 my-lovely-macand now Mamp Apache is all happy again