[Nfb-web] Drupal Site on Local Computer

[Michael Hansen]

Joe,

You might give Wamp Server (http://www.wampserver.com) a try. It is
the latest versin of a package a buddy of mine used for this exact
purpose. As I recall it installs PHP Apache and MySQL automaticly with
a generic config.

Mike
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Mike Hansen



On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:42 AM, E.J. Zufelt <everett at zufelt.ca> wrote:
> 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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