Publishing a Dynamic Website

[pchinique]

I had built static pages before and now I have to build my first dynamic page, I'll be using PHP and MySQL, for a testing server I'm using MAMP.

I have a couple of questions about this. Using this testing server, would I be able to show the pages to my client, do I need to upload the files to MAMP, I'm not sure how the whole thing works. I never used a testing server before.

Once that the site is finished and I'm ready to publish it, do I just define the remote info or is it anything else I need to do?

[Guest]

Im using XAMPP. Im not so sure how to configure MAMP but im pretty sure that u have to transfer all the files in MAMP folder, your server folder.

[pchinique]

Thanks for your help, do you know which folder exactly, there's MAMP folder, inside there is many folders, there is a bin folder that includes another mamp folder with css, different folders with different languages options...Do you know what folders I need to include?

Thanks

[Chimay10 · Accepted solution]

Drop everything into the htdocs folder.  This then becomes your local site.  Bring your whole site to htdocs from wherever you now have it located.  Hope this helps.

[pchinique]

Got it, thanks.

After that I guess when I'm ready to publish, I'll define the remote server, right? and upload the files.

[Chimay10]

Right. Just think of moving from your local site to your remote

site. Where your site is located now is just to accommodate your test

server.

David Cowan

dave@davecowan.com

[pchinique]

Easy, thanks a lot.