MAMP

Try Headdress. Or Patrick Gibson's terrific virtual hosts script . There are any number of ways to set up serving yourself, so to speak. Maybe you know PHP well enough to try I find that too many little things can go wrong or can be forgotten. Also: MAMP. A whole great package, incl. PHP, also free. These all have the advantage of ... actually working.

I am customizing Zen Cart templates using Dreamweaver on my Mac OSX 10.4.9 machine. Is there a way to see the effects of the php driven format changes without loading a server environment on my Mac or putting the page up on a php host server setup? I don't really need it to connect to the database yet, although at a later dev stage it would be necessary. Just the cosmetic...

you absolutely can get this setup and working. not much better then MAMP to be honest. ...

I currently use MAMP on my local machine for web development, but I don't work by myself so this isn't a great arrangement... hence the development server bit! ...

from php studio, but doesn't work from MAMP or Apache. ...

Install using MAMP and start the Apache server from the MAMP dashboard widget. ...

Sorry to cut and run, but I just made a big decision. After searching for solutions on the Internet, I finally realized that Apache is WAY over my head. I came across similar comments from others who appear to know more about this sort of stuff than I do. Some of them stuck with MAMP, but they used the default Apache installation instead of MAMP's Apache program. So I think...

Well, I THINK MAMP's Apache installation is now running correctly, so my next goal is to make virtual hosts and .htaccess files with mod-rewrite rules work. I had virtual hosts working with the default Apache installation, though it was a lot of work, and I just stumbled over the solution. A blank page with a column of numerals on the left side. Sorry, that's all...

Yes, you need to turn off the Mac installed version of Apache so you can run MAMP. But, you found that out and so Im confused of what your issue is now? When you to go http://localhost:8888 what comes up, anything? Have you tried removing the "Include" at the bottom for the time being? Do you the Mac firewall turned off? If on, is 8888 allowed? Tried turning off your...

What about with MAMP?