Correct. It is the default on PHP Mac 10.5.x
I have your PHP / MySQL book but it is the second edition and things are different since Tiger. I used it to learn PHP itself.
I am now trying to learn how to do a very, very, very interactive website. The users clicks around on the page and it is reconstructed (including new links) with each click. The "action" of each click is recorded in the database. Think of a chess game, or better yet a game of dominos (no set grid). If the user quits the database knows the status of the board game. Each time the user makes a move (clicks) the board is updated (i.e. the database knows which dominos are out, which are placed, who placed them, and where they are...
I forgot about web root directory. I have another website(sic) there. Do I have to replace all those files with your example set, or should I change web root?