[Xitami] Testing sites

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas J. Hruska" <shinelight@crosswinds.net>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] Testing sites


> At 10:14 PM 7/7/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >   Hi, I'm a new Xitami user. I want to use it just to  test the websites
I
> >create, including server-side scripts, etc. What I want to  do is to have
> >the possibility to browse a site with the browser in "online" mode  and
> >using full addresses. For example suppose I create a site at the address
> >www.geocities.com/my site; I create  my pages including full addresses in
> >links, images etc., identical to the pages  that will be published on the
> >geocities server. What I want to do is testing the  site when it's on my
> >local hard disk but typing the correct full address on the  browser which
> >is set in "online" mode. Is it possible? I think yes, because it  is done
> >by default by Xitami, with the base address set at the pc name. What I
> >want to chenge is simply that base address. I hope I explained well my
> >problem. Thanks in advance, Franco
>
> Actually you can't do that unless you host your own DNS server as
well...of
> course you would then not be able to upload anything to geocities.com
until
> you disabled the DNS server, uploaded, then re-enabled the DNS server.
> That's too much of a pain in the neck if you ask me.
>
> My question is, if you are using a static host for your site, why bother
> with a web server?  You can write static-HTML on your computer and it will
> look the same both locally and remotely (providing the remote host doesn't
> use case-sensitive filenames...but that just requires a bit of
fore-thought
> - and Xitami is _NOT_ a case-sensitive server under Windows).
>
> All the "online" and "offline" browsing modes do is determine whether to
> use already cached pages or to get them from the remote server.  It really
> has little relation to web page development since you want to be in
> "online" mode anyway or nothing will change when you reload the page.
>
> If you want to have more power, you can host your own web page with
> Xitami...which is what its true purpose is.  If all you are going to do is
> create static webpages for some other host, you are probably missing the
> point of a web server (the point is to serve web pages from your computer
> to other people...not to test static pages to upload to geocities).  I
> suggest checking out <http://www.dhs.org/>.  It may be a bit confusing for
> you, but I highly recommend their dynamic DNS service if you want to host
> your own website (and don't have a static IP address).
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>
>            Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@crosswinds.net
> Shining Light Productions -- "Meeting the needs of fellow programmers"
>                   http://www.shininglightpro.com/
>
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My problem is that I want to create dynamic pages too and test if all the
links I wrote are correct and really poit to existent pages, simply using my
computer both as server and browser. It's a thing that is not connected to
geocities, that was just an example... I don't know if I need a server, but
I thought yes... Another question, where can I find informations about how
servers work? The Xitami manual start with a lot of things that you should
already know, but I need to start from the beginning.
Thanks again,
Franco