What about apache debug mode (-X) ?

apache2 -X -d. -f.htaccess -C"PidFile `mktemp`"  -C"Listen 1025" -C"ErrorLog /dev/stdout" -C"DocumentRoot `pwd`"

to put it in the background once started you may use Ctrl^Z then type "bg"

Using the the FOREGROUND flag, wrapping it up in a shell script:

#!/bin/shif [ $# -ne 2 ]; then     echo "$0 <port> <dir>"    exit 10 fi/usr/sbin/apache2 -DFOREGROUND -d. -f.htaccess -C"PidFile `mktemp`" \ -C"Listen $1" -C"ErrorLog /dev/stdout" -C"DocumentRoot $2" -e debug

call it "pache", chmod +x, then you can run

./pache 1026 /tmp/webroot

http-server is a much better simple http server than pache, it's what I use currently! :)

Use [pache][1]

Install with npm - which comes with node here: http://nodejs.org/

sudo npm install pache -g

Run on current dir, port 3000:

pache

Or specify directory and port:

pache site-directory 2000

[1]: https://github.com/devinrhode2/pache

This works:

Your apache config could point to /var/www

Then use:

sudo mount -o bind /home/webcreatorperson/mywebsite /var/www

to unbind use:

sudo umount /var/www

If you want several ports you could preconfigure ports in apache to point to directories like /var/www/8000.