Wow... this thread SURE went WAY off my original topic... All I was looking for, was a "webserver" that would serve "PHP" pages, that was not "installed" on the machine. Now, if the machine was *nix or Windose, it didn't matter. I know in Python, you just have to install python, and then you can use Cherrypy (but i dont know python, nor do i want to create the app i am creating with a language i dont full know/understand). Anyway, I spent a bit of time on the interwebs this weekend, and after trying just about every one i could find, I am just going to go with XAMPP, and remove all the stuff i dont need, and trim some fat, and remove all the hard links to the /opt/lampp directory in linux, and figure out what it is in windose later... anyway, thanks for all the ideas. Steve. On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 22:37 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 02:07:12PM -0400, tedd wrote: > > > At 1:47 PM -0400 9/12/10, Jason Pruim wrote: > > >>On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:33 PM, tedd wrote: > > >>So, can I do what I do (i.e., programming) without having a host? > > >>Can I install a local server at my clients location and interface > > >>all their computers to use the server without them ever being > > >>connected to the Internet? > > > > > >I may not know all the possibilities but the only way I can think of > > >to accomplish that would be to have a server setup in their office > > >with a bank of modems and have everyone call into the server. > > >Basically like an old school internet provider. > > > > > >If the main server can be secured to your clients liking there are > > >ways that it can be on the net and still as safe as possible... But > > >obviously not as safe as hard lines being dialed in... > > > > > >You'ld also have to take into account possibly long distance charges > > >if everyone wasn't local... > > > > Forget modems or other such outside access -- everything would be > > done internally with computers and users being physically located > > within the office's physical location. > > > > So, could a server be set up in an office that would run > > web-languages such that users in the office could access their server > > and run scripts using browsers? > > I just think I couldn't possibly be fully understanding what you're > asking. But in case I *do* understand it, it would be like this: > > Set up a switch in the server room and connect everyone to it. Connect > the switch to the internal webserver. Give the webserver an internal > (non-routable) IP and hostname. Anyone can access it via > http://internal_hostname/my_script.php > > No one outside the LAN can access it, something you can enforce with > Apache or with iptables (Linux). > > I have one of these set up in my house/office. > > Hope this helps. > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
