I used to have a pc with software on it that allowed me to develop a web application/site on a machine on Lan, which was not visible to the WWW. Basically all the work was done and tested off line before publishing it to web hosting server.

 

I cannot remember how this was achieved and the PC concerned is long gone    Can anyone suggest a shareware method of doing this, ideally with MSQL support. This is not for a business application so hoping there is a free solution for doing this without buying a commercial license.

Does ISS support ?

Does ISS support ?

 

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Webplus

Agree with Aaron. Fairly sure the serif sw does this. But you could install apache on the local machine too

I did ours on webplus a few years ago, needs an overhaul now though.

I'm just about to use webplus for our site - and yes there is a 'local preview' feature so you can see the site on your browser, which is reassuring.

Thanks for the replies, I am not looking to design a website, just want to set up a web server. Its so that I can test some software before I deploy it the real www. I can either use a standalone computer and add whatever need to create the artificial www or use my laptop.

might be barking up the wrong tree but theres something you can enable on a window xp machine like attached image & you can add your files to folder & they appear in the same manner as if you where to host the site?

 

 

(sorry for the vageness)

Why not just create it and then point your browser to the folder name and file name?

C:\mywebsite\home.html. .