Local Development Environments for Mac - apache

Question

Ok guys.
Here's my issue. I love Valet, I think it's spectacular. All of my new and recent projects are built on Laravel in some way, most of them are Laravel Spark.
However, my old legacy applications are not built on any framework at all, and all heavily rely on the .htaccess file.
Now, as we know, Valet doesn't use apache in the same way, so cannot run my old legacy applications that I still often need to work on.
I use to run MAMP PRO happily, but this doesn't run side by side with any other environment solutions and just will not work with Laravel at all. It's just not built for it - I don't want to waste time making it work, when it's less than ideal in the first place.
So what I need is a suggestion for a modern local development environment that works great with Laravel applications, but also happily runs all of my old legacy applications. Preferably looking for something that's command based on the Mac.
Any suggestions. I'm really struggling to find something I like. I love the autonomous concept of Valet and would love something like that, or just the ability to run all of my legacy applications with Valet without having to create driver files for each app or anything like that.
Thanks in advance! Love you guys.

Answer 1

In my mac I've only mysql server and php installed.
So when I want to develop/test an app I use:
1) for laravel: php artisan serve
2) for non-laravel: php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t ./
3) sometimes virtual box with linux os
4) mostly I use my digital ocean droplet for dev purposes
5) docker (:

Answer 2

One way of doing it would be to use vagrant. You could use Laravel Homestead and replace Nginx with Apache as webserver which would allow you to run both laravel and legacy apps, or use a tool like PuPHPet to build your own box.
To replace Nginx with Apache in Homestead you should follow these steps:
In terminal run:
cd ~/Homestead
vagrant ssh
Next you'll have to stop Nginx, disable service autoload and install apache:
sudo service nginx stop
sudo mv /etc/init/nginx.conf ~/nginx.conf.bak
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudp service apache2 start
Now you'll have to create virtual hosts for your apps in /etc/apache2/sites-available
You could copy the default configuration:
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf
Configure your vhost to something like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save the file and enable the vhost by running sudo a2ensite /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf
And finally restart apache sudo service apache2 restart
You can find more information on how to setup Apache on Ubuntu here