testing cgi scripts without uploading?

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:32:31 -0500 "Richard" <anom@anom> broke off
from drinking a cup of tea at <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://extra.newsguy.com" target="_blank">http://extra.newsguy.com</a> to write:

 >Is there a simple way to learn cgi scripting on a windows me pc without the
 >need for uploading?
 >

Yes. You can obtain a free http server (perhaps Xitami or Apache if
you're feeling brave (sic)) and Perl is free also.

Matt

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"Richard" <anom@anom> wrote in message news:<bfaan702594.TakeThisOut@enews4.newsguy.com>...
 > Is there a simple way to learn cgi scripting on a windows me pc without the
 > need for uploading?

I'd not want to bog down my personal machine with a web server, perl
etc, so my advice would be to purchase a used PII-450 machine for
about $70 on ebay these days - download redhat and burn the ISOs to CD
- install the OS and opt to install Apache/Perl/MySQL/PHP etc - it
takes about an hour to do a full install and patch it.

I run a couple of 450Mhz machines in the office as development
machines, and I buy 20-40Gb drives, partition and drop on a copy of
FreeBSD, Redhat of various versions, and I have a couple of mandrake
drives hanging around. All told, my investment is less than $750, and
I have the ability to be developing on about 10 or 12 different
deployments of *nix, Apache from 1.3 to 2.0, MySQL from 3.23 to 4.0
and FreeBSD or Redhat 7 thru 9. I generally keep a FreeBSD/Apache
1.3.7/Perl 5.00.5 drive running, and a Redhat 9.0 with Apache 2.0. and
perl 5.80. MySQL and PHP variations can be varied - and I have one
machine running 3 different MySQL installation simultaneously.

Obviously, your ability to create and run these machines might be
different to mine (I'm not your typical webmaster, as I have a lengthy
unix background which predates the internet as we know it), but it
wouldn't harm you any to invest $100 in a machine to trash and play
around with - old Dell's run most variants of *nix without hitches -
the experience you will gain will be enormous, and you'll DEFINITELY
benefit long term from the experience.

hth

Greg Hewitt-Long
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"Richard" <anom@anom> wrote in message
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 > Is there a simple way to learn cgi scripting on a windows me pc without
the
 > need for uploading?
 >
Simple - go to <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.firepages.com.au" target="_blank">http://www.firepages.com.au</a> and download their dev4 package
for windows. Installs a complete web server set up on windoqws, apache,
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"Bill Logan" <blogan.DeleteThis@clear.net.nz> wrote in message
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 > "Richard" <anom@anom> wrote in message
 > news:bfaan702594@enews4.newsguy.com...
  > > Is there a simple way to learn cgi scripting on a windows me pc without
 > the
  > > need for uploading?
  > >
 > Simple - go to <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.firepages.com.au" target="_blank">http://www.firepages.com.au</a> and download their dev4 package
 > for windows. Installs a complete web server set up on windoqws, apache,
 > perl, mysql the whole 9 yards

Thanks. Tried getting it a few months ago but had a problem installing it.
Now this time all works just fine. Something new to play with now.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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