Setting Up a Testing Server

[mattskelton]

Hi,
I recently set up a site on Apache 2 on my PC. The site is working fine but I need to know how to set up a testing server. I have my site set up on my local hard drive (which I am about to partition) and I would like to test out some pages before I post them to my document root folder on Apache. I used to use localhost but after setting up this server, localhost just views the servers document root (my site). So any changes that I make to these docs are automatically "uploaded". Is virtaulhost the answer?

Thanks,

Matt

 

[ericbrunson]

Create a subdirectory called /test in your documant root and install your test files there. If you've coded well and used only relative references you should have not problems testing the new code.

 

[dkdude]

Changes you make to files in your document root WILL be served on localhost.

Virtualhost is a good clean way to test your new stuffe -that's what I would do.

Here's a link howto do it:

http://www.cfdev.com/apache/virtualhosts.cfm

Copy your document root to the vertualhost document root and tryout your changes on that before "going live".

Regards


Jakob