I good PHP environment that models the server is very hard to get going locally. At least on OS X. The only way I could get a good environment for Nginx+MySQL+P

I good PHP environment that models the server is very hard to get going locally. At least on OS X. The only way I could get a good environment for Nginx+MySQL+PHP was to locally run a debian VM in VirtualBox. Now this doesn't even take into account things like memcached that require a lot more customization.