Testing my website on a local machine/network

In a course I did, we created a website and then put it in a folder called "wwwroot" which was in "Inet_pub" (or something similar), and then by entering the local IP into IE I could go through my website the same way a user could online, thus testing the
functionality of it. We did this on Windows2000. I'm sure there is a similar way to do this in XP. Do I have to install something extra? Is it now a different folder? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

-Lachy

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:51:09 -0800, Lachlan wrote:

In a course I did, we created a website and then put it in a folder called "wwwroot" which was in "Inet_pub" (or something similar), and then by entering the local IP into IE I could go through my website the same way a user could online, thus testing th
e functionality of it. We did this on Windows2000. I'm sure there is a similar way to do this in XP. Do I have to install something extra? Is it now a different folder? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

-Lachy

Sorry if this is too obvious to ask but I will anyway. You installed and
configured a web server such as IIS or Apache, right?

not sure if your testing a page, or a website with several pages but .......

if just testing a page you've created....
just open internet explorer and then file open and browse to your html document.


if a website.....
you need to be running win xp pro for IIs if home edition download the free apache server, install and configure then put your website content in the default www root you specified during config.

if in xp pro go to computer administrator (if not in all programs, right click start menu go to start menu tab click customize and scroll to computer administration and ckeck "show on all programs menu") then services and enable the IIS service and t
hen put your web site in the default folder (sorry couldn't tell you what it is exactly but your previous example sounds close so look around, i'm an apache fan myself) and then test your web site