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Accessing localhost and Virtual Hosts Across a Local Network

Posted Jan 10 2010 by in Local Server with 9 Comments

I have several computers on my local network each with a local server environment provided by XAMPP. As it stands, the local server on each computer can only serve pages stored on that machine. This means that if I have a local site on computer A that I wish to access on computer B I have to replicate that site’s entire folder structure on computer B and on all other computers I want to access the site from.

No big deal really as I currently use ChronoSync to synchronise my site’s folder structure across computers. However, it is possible to have any computer on a local network serve pages that are stored on another computer on that same network. Here’s how.

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Installing PEAR Mail Package on MAMP and XAMPP

Posted Sep 22 2009 by in Local Server with 19 Comments

If you want your visitors to be able to send you an email from your site there are several options including mailto, sendmail or Postfix. There are also numerous sites offering contact forms for free. For a while I was using the excellent swiftmailer which performed perfectly on both my local and remote servers for a while, but subsequently ceased working on my remote server (presumably because of some configuration change by my hosting provider which I never did get to the bottom of).

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Configuring Virtual Hosts in XAMPP on OS X Leopard

Posted Jul 2 2009 by in Local Server with 4 Comments

A while back I posted about configuring virtual hosts in MAMP. More recently I noticed that MAMP hadn’t been updated in nearly a year and their support forum resembled a wilderness. Thinking that maybe the writing was on the wall for MAMP I started looking for an alternative and came across XAMPP.

XAMPP provides a similar local server environment to MAMP, but configuring virtual hosts is a little different. Unlike the Pro version of MAMP , XAMPP doesn’t have a nice GUI to allow virtual hosts to be configured easily. So, there is no alternative but to do it manually.

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Configuring Virtual Hosts in MAMP on OS X Leopard

Posted Apr 24 2009 by in Local Server with 8 Comments

If you need to easily set-up and maintain a local server environment on your Mac then look no further than MAMP. MAMP comes with Apache, MySQL and PHP and provides a local server environment that is independent of that installed as default by Leopard and best of all it’s free. However, like any server environment, out-of-the-box you’re limited to a single local host. This can prove a little inconvenient if you’re developing more than one site and require more than one local host. The most convenient and cost effective way to overcome this limitation is to use virtual hosts.

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