I want to test out post nuke but I currently don't have a server to test it on. I want to build my site before I get a server obviously. Does anyone know of like a free host or a really cheap host I could use and play around with post nuke's features? Once I got my site ready I think I'll go Rack Shack.

I don't know about hosts, etc. for your situation. But you might try one of those "Host your own web site from your PC" type programs. THey're not much good for serving the internet. BUt if you add this to your windows, mac, linux hosts fille, you'll be able to get your site (Windows hosts file is in C:\WINDOWS

#my web site
127.0.0.1 www.mysite.com
127.0.0.1 mysite.com
127.0.0.1 anything.else.mysite.com

<edit>Forgot to mention: you'll need to remove those entries once you get your site online, or you'll have troubles accessing it.</edit>

This means that when you type www.mysite.com, you'll be connected to the computer you are using (loopback), and if a sever is running, it will connect you.

Just make sure that you have port 80 blocked such that no one else can access your site if it's important to you.


I believe www.codingclick.com has a program that will help you with this. I do not know how well it works, in mytests, I was unsatisfied due to lack of SSI at that time (a while back)_ I do not know of its pressent state.

Seeing as you will be using php and mySQL try somthing like PHPtriad for testing at home....

I have postnuke running at http://www.acidhl.co.uk

I know there isn't much there I use the domain for email and some files :)

A spot I used to use for testing purposes was Spaceports (run by Tera-Byte) at http://www.spaceports.com is a free host that has CGI, Perl, PHP and MySQL.

yeah just setup a development machine. Someone else mentioned phptriad, I use foxserv which even has a post-nukle verison. http://foxserv.linuxmax.net/portal.php .

Zippity-do-dah before you know it you got php, mysql, apache, perl, and postnuke all installed and configured to work together.

You can download Apache for Windows, Perl for windows, PHP for windows and MySQL for windows. Install it all and you have your development server right there on your PC.

Just be carefull with Perl's first line, the #!/usr/local/bin or something else. It needs to point to the directory where you have the perl aplication (and to the program itself)