Fixing Apachebench on OS X Lion

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# If you're getting this error trying to use ApacheBench on OS X Lion:
#   Benchmarking mwmanning.com (be patient)...apr_socket_recv: Connection reset by peer (54)
#
# You need to download the latest beta version of Apache and rebuild ab. 
# Here's how (assuming you have homebrew installed).

# Install Homebrew (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew) and then the Perl Regex support
brew install pcre

# Download the latest from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi, then decompress and compile it
curl -O http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/apache//httpd/httpd-2.4.2.tar.bz2
tar xvfj httpd-2.4.2.tar.bz2 
cd httpd-2.4.2
./configure
make

# backup the original 'ab' command and replace it for the new one
sudo mv /usr/sbin/ab /usr/sbin/ab.old
sudo cp support/ab /usr/sbin/ab