The other day, I was looking for a way to preview PHP pages on my computer before I uploaded them to my site.
I found this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/miniserver/
It makes your computer act as a server, letting you preview PHP code on your computer.
Also, it comes with PHP and MySQL (you just have to turn mysql 'on' in the administration area).
No installing needed, just run the .exe file

This will allow those that want to beta test, but don't have web hosts of their own, test :)

As far as I know, others can't visit your computer server with the current version..... But, you could still fool around with the admin cp and other stuff, and look for bugs :D

Remember, the latest version of NEXTBBS can always be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/forums

Last edit by chris on Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm

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doesn't come here often, cause he has no free time ;_;

Hmm. What exactly is this? An all-in-one dev environment?

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[QUOTE=chris]Hmm. What exactly is this? An all-in-one dev environment?[/QUOTE] yeah, sometimes like that. It makes your computer act as a server, and have PHP and MySQL already installed and ready to go. I use it to test my PHP pages on my computer, before I go online with them. It's a little tricky to get the MySQL to work (as least for me it was), but once you get it working, you can test IPB, PHPBB, NextBBS, etc. On your computer.

Last edit by Jasper on Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm

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doesn't come here often, cause he has no free time ;_;

how exactly do you get it to work?

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Isnt phpdev better for this?

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This world is not perfect. That is what makes it beautiful.

UniServer (miniserver) uses the same software that most live webservers use (Apache). Your machine doesn't "act" like a server when you are running this software, it is a server.

If you have an active internet connection at the time and you (or your ISP) are not blocking traffic with a firewall then anyone can access your server (by your IP address, or domain if you have one).

A similar project that is more actively developed is XAMPP. I use it at work and at home for all of my PHP development and testing.

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I do too.
It's an excellent product.
Lacks security out of the box, though.

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