Post subject: web programming practice
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Hey, for some reason I thought some people here would be able to answer this. I am looking for access to something on the net where I can set up some web stuff just to try some things out and catch my skills up. I can boot in linux and that has been good to experiment with, but I don't think I can handle running it exclusively. It might be neat to run a second machine as a linux box but I live in a pretty small apartment and I don't want another machine here. I could probably figure out how to set up a server but configuring and maintaining it would be annoying. So I really just want to log in remotely somewhere that has a live working web server and mess around with junk like php, ajax and other good stuff. This is why I need more than just the casual html-page uploading that comes with most ISP service. I'd be willing to pay some if I had to. Can anyone suggest a place where I can do this? I use Comcast for access, but all they include for hosting is html and some file storage.
Post subject: Re: web programming practice
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You can install Apache and PHP in Windows, too. Then you can access it as through http://localhost/.
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Or if you're not feeling so adventerous to set up Apache, there's OmniHTTPd (which I use) Note: It comes with PHP built-in (PHP4), so if you're really lazy, it's easier.
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Else there's also easyphp.org which is kinda great and easy to use.