How to run/host Vapor on a Mac?

App Development
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Hello,

This is an extension to Chris’s " Getting Started with Vapor 4" series.

I am trying to run/host Vapor app locally on a Mac.

Before macOS 10.14 you can download the “macOS server” app, and host it from there, but now that feature is not available anymore.

I heard that you can use apache to host your own server, but the tutorials online are all very vague and I am not sure how to implement this.

Please help :smile:

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Welcome to the community!

Are you looking to host a Vapor server for running a project or just for testing?

For testing you can use Docker. But you can also deploy that Docker container

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I am looking to run a project. I don’t really want to use docker because the library that I want to use requires MacOS Monterey and I am not sure if using Docker would have an impact on verification.

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Your Docker container will need to be setup as macOS, as opposed to Linux

Which will take more configuring than my intro series. I haven’t done too much Vapor on macOS, cause many times it’s deployed to Linux environments

Your best bet would be to as in the Vapor discord! They’re great at responding :+1:

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Ok, I’ll look into that. Thank you for the quick response :+1:

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