creating a small test server on my local computer

[John Salerno]

Ant wrote:
> Mirco Wahab wrote:
>> Thus spoke John Salerno (on 2006-09-29 21:13):
> ...
>> My advice would be (because Apache installations on
>> WinXP don't usually support Python (except pulling
>> the whole thing into each CGI invocation) - download
>> and install a VMWare Player
> 
> This sounds a horribly complicated way of doing things. If you read the
> OP's post, it seems he is simply trying to serve straight HTML pages
> (but with Server Side Includes) locally for testing, rather than having
> to pester his operations guys to put them up on the company servers.
> 
> If it's just HTML and SSI, then Apache is the easy answer on XP. The
> download is a simple .msi installer, and you'll just be able to drop
> the html files in the htdocs directory to start serving them.
> (http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi)

Thanks! I'll look into this.