Website Hosting - Artificial Www

[morph]

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.

[Lwillis]

Does ISS support ?

[morph]

Does ISS support ?

 

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[alterEGO]

Webplus

[james.wilson]

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

[alterEGO]

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

[datadiffusion]

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.

[morph]

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.

[MrHappy]

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)

[Lwillis]

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

C:\mywebsite\home.html. .