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#1 2009-03-13 20:28:27

jtchambers

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Registered: 2009-01-03

Posts: 8

Offline building/testing on local machine

I’d like to “install” textpattern on my home computer so that I can build and test my website before putting it live online. I don’t have regular access to the internet (I live in a very remote location, and can only get online every few days), but I’d like to be able to work on my sites from my computer and then upload them when I get them working properly.

Is there a way to do this? Do I just install Textpattern to its own local directory, or do I have to enable anything? I use Adobe Dreamweaver for the html coding, so is there anything in there that I’d need to enable to make it work right?

Thanks!

#2 2009-03-13 20:47:20

MattD

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From: Monterey, California

Registered: 2008-03-21

Posts: 1,254

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Re: Offline building/testing on local machine

You’ll need a LAMP (Linux) or MAMP (Windows) setup wich would include Apache, PHP and MySql.

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#3 2009-03-13 20:50:02

els

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: Offline building/testing on local machine

Here are a couple of tutorials:

• Using XAMPP (Apache-MySQL-PHP-Perl) for Windows
• Using MAMP (Macintosh-Apache-MySQL-PHP) for Macintosh

#4 2009-03-13 21:33:13

maverick

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From: Southeastern Michigan, USA

Registered: 2005-01-14

Posts: 976

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Re: Offline building/testing on local machine

fwiw

Txtbook’s download link for MAMP is broken

Try MAMP

#5 2009-03-13 21:53:09

els

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: Offline building/testing on local machine

maverick wrote:

Txtbook’s download link for MAMP is broken

Thanks. Fixed.