Give ya a little background info so this makes sense. I had a website name registered and I had a per/month web host place that I uploaded my files to and wrote my php/mysql site. It's still in development. Everything worked great. Then at the end of the year, all that expired and I just decided to pick it up later. Well rather than paying for all that again, just to write the page until I can actually put it online, I thought hey what if I just run it all on my PC until I complete it and then register the webname and get a host. So I installed Apache Webserver, MySQL server, PHP4, and phpMyAdmin. All these work great together, I can open phpmyadmin, creat the databse and see it in MyDQL admin window. I can make la test.php file and put in my localhost directopry, goto Netscape, type http://localhost/test,php and all works great. However, if I just copy over my files that I had uploaded to my host into that directory, it doesn't work. I'm figuring that is because they are written to point to www.mydomain.com, I rewrote my website's config file to say that my site's url was localhost and that my sql server was on localhost. However it still doesn't work. So what is it that I need to do to make it point to localhost instead of www.mydomain.com without rewriting all my webpage files. Also, do I need to re-register my domain name and have it's DNS settings point to my PC to make it work this way instead?
Thanks for all your help
