On Wed, April 25, 2007 7:10 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 16:26 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: >> On Wed, April 25, 2007 3:27 pm, Daniel Brown wrote: >> > That's fine if you can find a shared host (as the OP states >> he's >> > using) >> > that's willing to install it on their servers. >> >> Or you have a spare computer in your closet that you can install the >> same OS as the server has, and the you compile the binary, and >> upload >> that, and then you can just 'exec' that. > > Bleh, this is the era of virtualization... instal vmware server and > then > have a any given distro virtualized as a development server for > migrating binaries to production servers. I do this with various Red > Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS flavours. And it's the only way to run > Windows to test in IE. I happen to have a lot of hardware laying around... Part of why I'm buying a house. Too much stuff. VMWare is nifty if your computer has the ooomph to handle it. I got turned off of VMWare early on, because I found myself endlessly tweaking the RAM settings to get better performance out of whichever VM I was needing at any given time, and it was too painful to do that. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php