Need to toggle between nginx and Apache on your development machine?

toggle-port-80

#!/bin/bash
#
# Needs to be run as sudo toggle-port-80
#
# because port 80 is a privileged port
#
# Jay Caines-Gooby
# jay@gooby.org
# @jaygooby

NGINX=/usr/local/sbin/nginx
APACHE=/usr/sbin/apachectl

ps cax | egrep 'nginx|httpd' > /dev/null

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  # normally I want nginx started
  echo "Starting nginx"
  DAEMON=$NGINX
else
 
  # if Apache's running stop it and start nginx
  # or if nginx is running, stop it and start Apache
  ps cax | egrep 'httpd' > /dev/null
  if [ $? == 0 ]; then
    echo "Stopping Apache, starting nginx"
    $APACHE stop
    DAEMON=$NGINX
  else
    echo "Stopping nginx, starting Apache"
    $NGINX -s stop
    DAEMON="$APACHE start"
  fi  
fi

# give the old daemon a chance to shutdown
sleep 3
$DAEMON