as a final note regarding the offline packages: i have successfully copied apache, mysql and php. I have also successfully installed these packages and their dependencies offline, which makes me happy. I have successfully tested php and apache.
I wrote a basic php script to test functionality (echo something about FreeBSD, then run a shell command, format the output of the shell command, then display the formatted output, in this case, ls -la).
Thank you for helping me with this subject. Much appreciated. I consider this topic to be solved.