On 09/15/2010 02:56 PM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Now for the request for some advice...
If I were running an Intel Mac I would just install a virtual machine with Ubuntu server or something similar and be done with it. Unfortunately the G4 is a PPC and not an Intel box.
Does anybody have any advice on where to proceed from here? The Mac Ports idea might be worth a look if I can somehow point the default server away from Apache 1.3 to 2.x. Running MAMP may have some merit since I can change the default port to 80. Unfortunately Webmin wants to run on a different port and defaults back to Apache 1.3. I could install *BSD but I think that's a little more involved than I want to get at this point.
You can try macports, fink or homebrew to install it, all of them will compile the whole shebang on your machine, but the MAMP bundle that you downloaded already has a standard apache, mysql and php.
You should be able to edit the ports by clicking on MAMP.app Preferences... Ports and changing apache to 80 and mysql to 3306. You can also just edit the conf files in /Applications/MAMP/conf.
You can start and stop mysql and apache from the command line with: sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/startApache.sh etc.
Peter
http://macports.org http://finkproject.org http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/