Posted by JDS on 03/21/06 16:24

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:24:38 +0000, L C wrote:

> My question is: How do I get around that so I can test my edits without
> going to the web?

One thing that may help is putting the public site name in your hosts
file. In Windows, this file is typically

c:\windows\hosts (win9x)
OR
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (WinNT/2000/XPPro)
OR
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (WinXP Home)

Put a line like this:
192.168.1.100 www.publicsite.com


Although, I admit, this is an incomplete solution. You really need to
simulate the server environment on your local machine to do proper
testing. "Simulate the server environment" is pretty easy, though -- just
install a PHP-enabled webserver.

Google on

"php webserver install windows"

or something similar.

Post back more questions when you get stuck.

later...


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