Instead of a picnic or a cook out yesterday, I spent the day reading on TCB's back porch and getting MySQL, Apache, and PHP working on his laptop so I can use them when we carpool to Indy (and I sit for a few hours in a coffee shop while he's in a meeting.) I found some resources about developing on Mac for version OSX 10.0, but I figured it was mostly aplicable to 10.3 and plowed ahead.
Apache? check. Apache's already on it, just have to turn it on. That was easy. Ooh! looks like PHP is already on there too.
Got mysql, which took forever on his dialup. And I don't have root access, so I'd have to hunt TCB down every time I needed his password. Finally, that's installed, configured, etc, and I'm ready to go, right?
Not so. I made the standard script to test it and it failed miserably. Either it output nothing or it output the entire file, expecially after I figured out that the address was /localhost/~TCB/hello.php
Spent all night kind of crabby that what was supposed to be easy, two steps, and came on the machine, had thwarted me. Played Mario Kart.

This morning, I realised the error: I hadn't turned the PHP module on.