localhost without wan

bigpikture

Is it possible to test php scripts on localhost WITHOUT being
on a wan?

In other words, how can I have my local apache serve the pages
via http requests without being connected to a network at all?

Thanks in advance.

sfhc

yes, just install apache on that machine, and you are good to go.

bigpikture

I have that but when I am disconnected from the network, my browser
fails to load pages which I specify via "http://localhost/index.php"

Any idea?

sfhc

Is apache running?

Also, try the loop back url, http://127.0.0.1

greg252

You also have to install PHP, configure apache and possibly make some changes to php.ini

Yamakazi

What do you see if you type localhost or 127.0.0.1? Do you see that standard apache page that your install was succesful? If you do open up the httpd.conf file of apache.

Search for Documentroot.
Then change the sentence in:

DocumentRoot "C:/MyWebsite"

Or just the pad to where your php file are.

Scroll down a bit and you'll see
<Directory "something something">

Change taht one in to

That should do the trick.

bigpikture

Big thanks to all.

It works for 127.0.0.1, but localhost fails.

That'll get me by for now, BUT, would be nice to get localhost working.

nightowl

you can define the name localhost to be linked to 127.0.0.1 via your "hosts" file in c:\windows

type

127.0.0.1 localhost

in it ...