Don't want to use "localhost" calls and links etc.
G'Day to the Wampserver team.
I have Apache / PHP (& Zend) / Perl / MySQL / and a mail server (to test locally all email output) installed on my "development" boxes for some years (Win PC). I dev for Perl and PHP and the mail server is only manually started when offline.
My question...
I want to try Wampserver mainly because some the easy management options sound worth while. However all I see is reference to the use of lame "localhost".
I have always given my 'puters a name and an extension of .com or .net. This allows me to refer to a domain name in my config files and page links etc, and even for mailing setups etc when testing development... see [
phparagon.com].
So...
1) Can Wampserver be set up to be compatible with same (ie h ttp://mycompname.net/ and not h ttp://localhost/ all the time)?
2) Also can I name the web root as "htdocs" and not www?
3) Plus is there an Apache folder set up above web root too (a comment somewhere made me wonder about that)?
PS I am not interested in channeling back into my server from the web!
Regards, 'imself.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/27/2010 06:13PM by Wombat.