[Nfb-web] Drupal Site on Local Computer

[E.J. Zufelt]

Good morning Joe,

I notice that this question has not been answered so let me take a  
crack at it.

If I understand you correctly you would like to know wat software can  
be recommended to be installed on your personal computer to locally  
host a Drupal installation while you are learning about Drupal.

I avoided answering this question at first because I know that there  
are easier solutions than the one I use and didn't want to recommend  
any having never experienced them.

What I do is to install Apache2 web-server, mySQL 5 and PHP5.  These  
three applications working together are often referred to as AMP and  
when in a Linux environment are often referred to as LAMP.  I myself  
install each application onto whichever operating system I happen to  
be working with at the time I am working on a project.  But, if you do  
research online you will likely find packages that will automate the  
installation of all three applications at the same time for Windows.

You should also know that once you've developed a site on your local  
computer it is possible to transfer your Drupal implementation to a  
web server by moving the drupal directory structure, modifying the  
settings and moving the mySQL database to your server.  I believe it  
was Mike that pointed out earlier, and I will point it out again, that  
if you plan on moving a Drupal installation from one server, or domain  
name, to another then you will need to make sure that there are no  
hardcoded links in the content of any of your pages.  Drupal will  
ensure that none of its generated links are hard coded.  What I mean  
by this is that http://mycomputer/node/2222 will not transfer properly  
to another server, whereas /node/2222 will.

Hope that helps and let us know if you have any other questions,
Everett




On 31-Mar-09, at 7:23 PM, Joe Orozco wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Has anyone begun engineering their Drupal site on their local  
> computer?
> If so, do you have recommendations for the best software that works  
> with
> JAWS to go about doing this?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Joe Orozco
>
>
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