Testing a website in local

[Patrice Terrier]

I would like to test my new website in local before posting it on the net.
however i would avoid installing Apache on my notebook (running VISTA 64).

Do you know of any other alterrnative?

[Paul Squires]

I haven't tried it myself, but maybe using a "JumpBox" might help. Check out this info: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/141391

[Mel Bishop]

Save it to disk in HTML (as you would on the net) then open it up in your favorate browser.

[Patrice Terrier]

I am using dreamweaver CSS and relative paths, while they work well with Firefox, they failed with Internet Explorer, as soon as i am using "../..".

I think i better have to make all my local testing with FF

Thanks

[Egbert Zijlema]

I simply store my html-pages on my own box, using server-identical names for the subdirectories (such as images, files, et cetera). It works fine.

[Patrice Terrier]

The problem i have (only) in local, is with IE when dealing with another HTML page that is two folders higher than the current one. I have no problem to embed images or to move from one folder to another, when they are at the same level.

In the example below, the line in red doesn't work in IE, while the lines in blue are working well.

<ul>
<li><a href="../../index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="../FR/gdimage.html">GDImage</a></li>
<li><a href="../FR/showroom.html">Showroom</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php?board=348.0" target="_blank">Forum</a></li>
</ul>

Note: with FireFox everything works...

[Mike Doty]

Use identical file structure: c:\home\patrice\www\cgi-bin
Abyss server http://www.aprelium.com/

[John Strasser]

While I can't speak to Abyss - or why IE is acting the way it does...

The WAMP Server (http://www.wampserver.com) is especially easy to set up...

and it includes apache, php and mysql all ready to go.

since all my servers use apache...

I didn't see any reason why those links didn't work. Just for grins have you tried putting a "./" in front?

JS

[Scott Turchin]

There's something about parent paths in IIS 6.0 that allows or blocks ../../ - so I'm assuming there's something in IE that does the same - whether or not you can adjust/disable it I'm not sure of.