Setting up Drupal without internet access, for testing

By RobCair on 18 Jul 2006 at 07:05 UTC

Hi. I have set up Drupal on Ubuntu Linux with Apache/MySql on my home PC. I would like to learn how to use it before asking my web hosting company to install it for my own web page. Can I set it up to run without having to access the internet each time I want to edit the contents?

Thanks in advance
Rob

Comments

Yup it would work if your

edmund.kwok commented 18 July 2006 at 07:16

Yup it would work if your Apache and MySql fits the requirements. You just need to install Drupal according to the install.txt or the online version at http://drupal.org/node/260

Just hard code the DNS name

muzza commented 18 July 2006 at 07:35

Just hard code the DNS name of the site to your Linux PC's IP address in your /etc/hosts file until you move it to the real server.

Murray

Windows Equivalent?

WeRockYourWeb.com commented 18 July 2006 at 10:51

Is there a way to do this in Windows as well? I have Apache, PHP, and MySQL running locally, but I can never get the base URL name to resolve to the alias I am using. Anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks,
Alex
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