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Creating a Server?

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thatolchestnut

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Hello everyone,

I am trying to develop some software for a server that can do the following:
navigate a site, handle user IO, and run a simple javascript program. The problem is that I dont have a server (at least for another week), and I would like to develop code for the server and test it in a very delicate sense of the word. I would really like to just be able to access the server from my machine and see how it would appear on the actual server.

Unfortunately I have not found a tool suite that can accomplish this task. I do not pretend to be any kind of a server coding expert (far from it and I really have no idea how I got tasked with this job), BUT such is life and any help is greatly appreciated.

-TOL

EDIT: Ive managed to create a server using APACHE and running PHP. However I would still appreciate any user guides you can provide.
 
Your best bet is setup a VM with Linux and setup the environment that you need to test on as well as code on that way you got a sandbox that you can revert at any time. Put the code on a separate disk that is not affected by snapshots. Or just setup backup jobs.
 
You aren't asking a good question yet -- what does your server need to do or be besides running Apache + PHP which you've already accomplished?

Guides to what? Apache permissions? MySQL? PHP coding? Scraping HTML? Writing HTML?
 
Too vague.

navigate a site, handle user IO, and run a simple javascript program. That could just be a website. All websites allow you to navigate, handles IO and most now use javascript.

The problem is that I dont have a server. ... Ive managed to create a server using APACHE and running PHP. It seems like you solved that problem.
 
I am confused. The server navigates the site? Doesn't the user do that? or are you writing a spider which navigates other sites, runs their javascript to process the page correctly and scrape the screen for some result?
 
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