MAMP

I use a G3 at work as a web server/print server. and I also use one at home as a media server which streams all my tunes to XBMC (xbox media centre) G3's are great machines P.S. Both G3's run MAMP and my stripped version of tiger (no dock, dashboard, and OpenGL effects e.t.c)

Have you tried it using MAMP? http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2764/leopard_install_local_wordpress_using_mamp/

Try this: Click on the server tab in Mamp. click on the select MySQL root password. create one; for the example I'll call it "password", then, your php code must start like this:

Understood, but I wasn't aware that one used the other, hence my question. I kind of got the impression that XAMPP was trying to shoehorn something to OS X that MAMP had already done. No worries. ...

Regardless of whether or not XAMPP uses MAMP, I don't appear to have to be fiddling with the terminal shell, so thank you for the tip. The point of getting an Apache server is so that I can learn php, and I now have it where it appears I can test php files.

My apologies....wasn't aware that XAMPP used MAMP.:o

Any particular reason you chose not to go with MAMP as a solution over XAMPP? ...

I'm used to doing much of my web development on a local MAMP install, and I'd like to replicate a similar set up on the server. ...

for Apache or if you made adjustments to any of the PHP installs for MAMP, be sure to at least keep a copy of those files. But, if you experiencing problems with MAMP perhaps you won't want to use the same configuration files. Keeping a copy of those files somewhere else for now won't hurt. ...

I was using MAMP to host website, use php etc. ...