For Brew driven MAMP with Apache2, PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1
If you've MacPorts install - you probably should move it to avoid any unintentional conflicts.
Install brew (assuming that you have Xcode installed).
$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsS http://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"
Install git and bash completion. (Perhaps by first following gem instructions at http://wiki.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/gems-eggs-and-perl-modules)
$ brew install git
$ brew install bash-completion
Get the Good Old bin package and add it to your profile:
$ mkdir ~/bin
$ cd ~/bin
$ git clone http://github.com/goodold/goodold-bin.git
$ echo "source \$HOME/bin/goodold-bin/goodold_profile" >> .bash_profile
...or, if you already have it, run a update:
$ goodold-selfupdate
Start a new shell or reload your profile to get the correct paths:
$ source .bash_profile
Turn your homebrew dir into a git working directory:
$ brew update
Install mysql and follow the instructions:
$ brew install mysql
Open the apache config:
$ mate /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
...and add the following:
# get the server name from the Host: header
UseCanonicalName Off
# include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests
VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/pelle/Sites/%-2.0/public_html
<Directory "/Users/pelle/Sites">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
...uncomment the following
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
...perhaps change the user Apache is running as to yours by changing
User _www
...into
User pelle
...and restart.
$ sudo apachectl graceful
Now you should have a working MAMP stack. Just add a "domain" directory to ~/Projects with a public_html dir inside and add the domain domain.local to /etc/hosts and it will be available as a local site.