I have an old windows 98 pc upstairs.

i sometimes code my html websites up there, but now i need to use php.

I was wondering if i could install a webserver upstairs, just to use as local host to build my website.

I have installed apache on this pc BUT i dont have the internet upstaitrs.

I was wondering if i could install a webserver upstairs, without the internet (download server here, put it on my pen drive and install it upstairs)

Can i install a webserver with no internet?

If so, can you reccomend how i go about it, which server, do i use a premade webserver, or install apache, php, mysql myself.



Thanks,




mike

I don't know if 98 would have a problem with it or not but I used XAmp (I think that's it) for this same purpose a while back. It's an all in one rollup of what you would need for testing.

On the downside, you may not end up with something that matches your live site perfectly.

On the upside, it's cake to get running.

Mark

EDIT: I knew I had the link somewhere.

apachefriends.org/en/index.html

Yup that will work fine, many companies run internal intranet servers which aren't online if you think about it :).

Dan

That should work just fine. I have a little lab in my house consisting of 6 different computers all networked to gather for testing various things and they are exposed to the internet at all. 2 are being use to test different web apps.

you could always downlaiod the ISO's for linux (if thats what you production server runs) and format teh w98 machine to your flavor of linux run testing that way

I have FC3 run on 3 old i486 machines and its slow but it does the trick

thanks for the help, i have downloaded it.

Will test it when i find a way to transfer it upstairs lol

Are you talking about the ISo's?

If so you need to burn them to CD's and laod it just like you would load windows for the most part

im on to it :D

ok, i burnt the server to disk, and installed it on my other pc.

When i type http://localhost, it says page cannot be displayed, after i have pressed work offline.


I have no internet connection on there you see.

I dont know what to do. I think apache is running, but i cant get any scripts to work through the server!



Can anyone help me?




Mike

You have to find out what IP the server has
"localhost" is what ever machine you are at
If you type localhost from you windows machineit look on that machine instead of the server

Go to you server and login to teh command line and type ip addr

This will tell you what IP that machine has

it will read something like this

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:14:85:c5:88:19 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.102/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
inet6 fe80::214:85ff:fec5:8819/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop
link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0

that is on the assumtion that 192.168.1.102 is the IP of the server

Then after you find out what your IP is go downstairs to your windows machine and type that ip in the browser

That whould be that

You did setup the server for DCHP right?
If not i can help you with that as well

the server is not online, no internet up there.


When i tryed to start apache, it said the was a problem with starting "Listen" or something, from a conf file



Plz help me!



mike

Hmm did you happen to install some firewall (even u dont have internet )? As it might be blocking but.

But i never heard of Xamp but i have always used "uniserve" its a beauty, it has php,webserver,if i remember even mysql admin and python and what not.

I dont think uniserve is available for downloads anymore but try looking for it on google you might find it, its easy on machines and perfect for testing, i modded my phpbb forums using uniserve only on my machine.

Cheers

Hello,

I am not sure about windows 98 but you can tryinstalling the latest release of XAMPP that includes PHP, Apache, MySQL, FileZilla FTP Server (all in one).

If your machine upstairs doesn't have a net connection, you can do the development there and upload the files to some internet server for testing using pen drive transfer between both machines.

thats exactly what i did, but i cant get apache to run, some of its conf settings in the httpd file are creating errors, so apache doesnt start.

have you modified the conf files at all? because it should work straight away without any interference.
Just reinstall it.

Why not migrate from stone age to the world of Windows 2003 or even to XP?

PHP for Windows works fine.

Install PHP, then use PHP ExpertEdit, which has a debugger (which includes a web server) and you can run the code from the IDE.