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After some hours of blood and sweat I finally managed to get a nicely working Apache / PHP Setup (YES! With a working version of pecl).

I usually us the great! package from Marc which does unfortunately not work nicely on Leopard yet (I hope it's not too much stress for him :) ).

Until he is done (and I switch back) I can provide this package which is very dirty and untested (works for me).

If you'd like to install it try like that:

Unpack to /usr/local like this

cd /usr/local
tar xjvf <the package>

Then you need to make some changes in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Change the following line:
ServerRoot "/usr"
To this:
ServerRoot "/usr/local/httpd"
 
COMMENT (type a # on the beginning of the line) the following lines:
LoadModule cache_module libexec/apache2/mod_cache.so
LoadModule disk_cache_module libexec/apache2/mod_disk_cache.so
LoadModule mem_cache_module libexec/apache2/mod_mem_cache.so
LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_ajp_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_ajp.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so
LoadModule bonjour_module     libexec/apache2/mod_bonjour.so
 
Finally UNCOMMENT (remove the #) this line:
#LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Now you just need to start your brand new apache / php setup like the following:

sudo /usr/local/httpd/sbin/apachectl start 

If you want to build your own setup here is what I did: