Posted by Anne Hanson on 04/30/07 14:12

On Apr 30, 9:43 am, blessblessbl...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello friends,
> I am trying to find something that must exist.
> I am in Thailand right now and Internet is not very available in the
> place I'm staying.
> Is there a program that can emulate a server, apache, mysql without me
> having to set up a server on my laptop.
>
> I would imagine it to be like an archive where I just import the files
> I want to test and can muck around with databases and brows the files
> using different variables n so.
> I am a novice programmer, so I do allot of trial and error, a simple
> syntax check won't do though i would like to see the results and
> progress.
> is there a program like that out there?

Yes, if your laptop can boot from a USB drive you can install the
server edition of Slax (a Linux distribution). Go to www.slax.org.
They have a discussion board with directions on how to install Slax
either on a hard drive or on an external USB drive. I'm doing this now
and it works.

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