Another good website-on-a-stick software is... well, WOS (now called MoWeS -- Modular Webserver System). http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/mowes/mowes.htm The nice thing about this software is the ability to download "packages" of just about any major server-based software -- Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, Moodle, SugarCRM, WordPress, etc. http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/mowesmixer/mowesmixer.htm?step=2 And, of course, run it all from your USB Drive. SEAN O http://www.sean-o.com haliphax wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 01:40 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:24:24PM +1100, Clancy wrote: >>> >>> > I bought some appliance recently, and found that they had thrown in a >>> 2G >>> > USB key for good >>> > luck. I guess I ought to be able to put a PHP server plus a copy of >>> my >>> > website on it for >>> > demonstration purposes, but has anyone actually tried it, and if so >>> are >>> > there any traps to >>> > avoid? >>> >>> Maybe I'm dense or I don't understand your question. It sounds like you >>> want to run lighttpd or apache on this USB device in order to serve up >>> your website. If so, then the device would have to be assigned a >>> separate IP address from the machine it's mounted on. Someone would have >>> to be able to surf to that IP at least, much less have the IP address >>> translated into a name. Otherwise, there's no way a web server can serve >>> up a website; it has to have an IP address. I don't know how you'd >>> possibly do that. Even then, you'd have to mount the device and then >>> issue a separate call to the USB-hosted web server to start, and then >>> serve your site up. >> >> 127.0.0.1 and name localhost should suffice. You might want to use a >> non-standard port so that it doesn't conflict with anything else the >> machine is running. > > > I've been running XAMPP and even Eclipse from my USB key for well over > a year now. It works like a charm. Fantastic for demonstrations, or if > you've got a pet project that you need to test and carry with you. > > > -- > // Todd > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Website-on-a-USB-key--tp22366414p22372871.html Sent from the PHP - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
