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Scott Hacker's article in Nov issue really interested me (yeah, I'm just getting around to trying it.) Unfortunately I fail at the first test with "connection error", i.e. when filling in url http://localhost/~username/test.php. (yeah, I substitute my own username for "username.") I'm running OS X 10.1.5, so I switched to the variant article on the MacWorld web page. I'm an experienced Unix user, so the file editing didn't present obstacles. (Used vi instead of pico). I did find, however, both a httpd.conf.default file in /etc/httpd, in addition to httpd.conf as mentioned; when my first efforts failed I edited the "default" variant also. All I can see that might cause a problem, is that my file did not contain a line "AddType application/x httpd-php .php"; rather, it was "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php" (hyphen instead of space following x). So, this line is already present (after it is uncommented) in exactly the form that the text tells us to add after the line containing x-tar. But I added that line anyway.
The console log coughed up these messages in trying to locate the url:
Mar 24 19:03:48 localhost pppd[259]: tdbstore failed: IO Error
Mar 24 19:03:48 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Mar 24 19:03:50 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnssendqueryserver - timeout for 10.112.112.112

Mar 24 19:03:51 localhost pppd[259]: tdbstore failed: IO Error
Mar 24 19:03:51 localhost pppd[259]: tdbstore key failed: IO Error

Mar 24 19:03:51 localhost pppd[259]: tdbstore failed: IO Error
Mar 24 19:03:51 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Mar 24 19:03:51 localhost lookupd[189]: Caught SIGHUP - reset
Mar 24 19:03:51 localhost lookupd[189]: Caught SIGHUP - reset
Mar 24 19:03:55 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnssendqueryserver - timeout for 10.112.112.112

Mar 24 19:04:00 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnssendqueryserver - timeout for 10.112.112.112
Mar 24 19:04:00 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnsfqdnqueryserver - query failed for 10.112.112.112

Mar 24 19:04:05 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnssendqueryserver - timeout for 10.112.112.112
Mar 24 19:04:15 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Mar 24 19:04:15 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnsfqdnqueryserver - query failed for 10.112.112.112

Mar 24 19:04:20 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnssendqueryserver - timeout for 10.112.112.112
Mar 24 19:04:30 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Mar 24 19:04:30 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnsfqdnqueryserver - query failed for 10.112.112.112

Mar 24 19:04:35 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnssendqueryserver - timeout for 10.112.112.112
Mar 24 19:04:45 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Mar 24 19:04:45 localhost lookupd[189]: DNSAgent: dnsfqdnquery_server - query failed for 10.112.112.112
any ideas, anyone?