vmware image and web development
So, I'm making this "pilot", new website for a council... (feels like I've said that a lot!)
I've made the front-end (well, almost finished!), but now how to integrate it in the cms. I asked the IT company to give me a copy of the files for the cms so I can play around with it on my own (work) machine.
They told me they could give me "a wmware-image of Corepublish (the cms) and the front-end code."
Now, I've never been into the going on behind the scene stuff, but is it normal to develop things in a simulator? I've used wmware for testing webpages in macs on my pc, and its always been a pain (really slow to do updates etc, and the constant switching between the simulator and my computer, and the longer you run the simultor the slower it gets etc ).
I just thought they could give me a copy of the files and I just run it on my pc, like I do when I develop for wordpress/drupal etc. That way I could use all my developer tools and do instant updates to code. I guess this cms might be a bit bigger than wordpress, but still. I have several localhosts set up on my beloved Windows Server 2003, but at work I have XP so maybe its not possible with XP?
Somebody please enlighten me. I really hope you're gonna say this is how development is done and that my experiences with mac testing using wmware is something completely different.
Also I should have paid more attention to when the back-end guys at my old job set up local development servers on my computer...
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I use several localhost servers on my XP Home machine. I run WAMP and use the <VirtualHost> feature of Apache.
Is it this Corepublish product? If that website is using its own product (aka dogfooding) then it seems Corepublish runs under Apache:
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| Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch11 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c |
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