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How do you create a local test environment for your blog?
Written By greghickman on Nov. 23, 2007.
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Does anyone have any advice on creating a local environment in order test out new themes of your blog while not affecting the live version?
thanks in advance!
Oli
Written Nov. 23, 2007 / Report /
I have a whole local (truly) version that I can start up when I want to test things out. When I'm done I just shift the bits I change onto the real server.
If you're using Wordpress, that's going to mean install apache, php mysql (and copying your database over), then making a local copy of your files.
publicenergy
Written Nov. 23, 2007 / Report /
You could use something like VertrigoServ - if you want the whole environment in something you can just turn on and off when you need it easily.
davidhayes
Written Nov. 23, 2007 / Report /
There are a number of easy ways to get a server with PHP & MySQL running locally. On Windows, I'm currently using WAMP (I don't like the the new look of their site, but its still useful software), I guess it's probably about the same as publicenergy's Vertrigo, though I don't know how they differ.
To first learn how to set it up, I used UrbanGiraffe's now rather old instructions, there are certainly other more recent instructions that say about the same thing.
Vidar
Written Nov. 24, 2007 / Report /
Or you could use easyphp or xampp. But yeah, all you really need is the web server, php and mysql install
Sebastiano
Written Nov. 24, 2007 / Report /
I second EasyPhp , I think it is by far the easiest to install on windows servers. Although I've not tested the other scripts, simply because easyphp does everything i need...
silvertje
Written Nov. 24, 2007 / Report /
Problogger just wrote a nice article on installing and using XAMPP for an offline (testing) environment.
greghickman
Written Nov. 25, 2007 / Report /
sweet! you guys rock. I'll check these out now!
cooper
Written Nov. 25, 2007 / Report /
I use xamp lite.
wrttnwrd
Written Nov. 26, 2007 / Report /
I'm using MT4 and have utterly, horribly failed to get a test version running on my Mac in Leopard. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
isdereks
Written Nov. 26, 2007 / Report /
What platform are you developing on?
RightOn
Written Nov. 26, 2007 / Report /
That's because MT4 is using perl modules that you have to manually install. I could NEVER get the damned thing running locally in OS X.
Using MAMP in OS X 10.4 I have WordPress and all other sorts of apps running though.
JPhill
Written Nov. 26, 2007 / Report /
I've also been using MAMP for the past year and it's really easy to setup and use.
greghickman
Written Nov. 29, 2007 / Report /
im using wordpress working on a mac with leopard. tried to get mamp working but wasn't able to get it working. needed a little bit more clear instructions...anything easier than that?