Building a web server

[Mouse]

Building a web server to test my own sites…

Has anyone built heir own home test server? I’ve read that I could use my old PC as a base, ok so it won’t be fast or flashy but it could work… but has anyone done it before?

I have an cable / wireless / Ethernet net connection and was wondering if anyone had already done it and if so how?

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[zq29]

First of all, the PHP Help forum is for specific PHP scripting problems, so I'll be moving this to a more relevent forum.

Yes, I have done it - I have FreeBSD installed on an old machine: 800MHz CPU; 128Mb RAM; 10Gb HDD. But I mainly use this for learning the command line for FreeBSD as I have a couple of dedicated servers with the same OS on, if I want to do something on my live servers I test it out on my test one first so that I know what I am doing!

For testing my PHP projects on, I just use my development machine which is running a WAMP set-up.

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First of all, the PHP Help forum is for specific PHP scripting problems, so I'll be moving this to a more relevent forum.

Yes, I have done it - I have FreeBSD installed on an old machine: 800MHz CPU; 128Mb RAM; 10Gb HDD. But I mainly use this for learning the command line for FreeBSD as I have a couple of dedicated servers with the same OS on, if I want to do something on my live servers I test it out on my test one first so that I know what I am doing!

For testing my PHP projects on, I just use my development machine which is running a WAMP set-up.
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thanks for that Semi... just need to run tests on my mail security and membership systems that as the use a mail confirmation i'm having issues doing it on my development machine...

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