Thanks very much Chris for the clear explanation. Sounds like just what
I need - A way to completely build and check out a web site on my own
compter and then be able to migrate it to a hosting service when I'm
ready. Sure beats the local editing and back and forth trips from my
computer to the hosting service via FTP and SSH shell.
Tony
These kits are useful for developers to set up things on their Windows
workstations (or laptops) and do all the work there, developing and
testing sites all from one computer that isn't even necessarily attached
to a network -- think of commuting on a train, etc. Once you're happy
with how it works here, you can upload your work to whatever the server
may be (or serverS, for that matter, if things are broken up that way),
and everything should work the same way there that it did originally.
These kits make things very easy, too. I've seen them set up on laptops
for non-technical managers and salespeople so that they could do onsite
demos of complex Apache / Perl / PHP / MySQL / Flash / Actionscript web
sites. Even if there wouldn't be a network connection available for the
demo, no problem, just click the "Apache Start" icon in the Start menu,
then open up http://localhost/demo/ in the web browser, and it seems as
if the salesperson was connected back to the "real" site. Everything is
going to work exactly the same way as the real site, even when it's all
just running from a modest little Windows laptop.
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