Is there a way that I could have a pretend database on my computer that will allow me to install and test out a cms as if it was an actual website. Meaning, being able to use it on my laptop without being connected to the internet?
Now I don't know much about databases except what I have done with like my WordPress blog and my forum. If anyone knows exactly how I can do this, please consider helping me. I want to test out certain CMS' for my website www.thegdfc.com so that I know which will work best with what we want to use the site for.
Reason being is that I never go home during the week, because my fiance and I only have one car. I work the night shift and come home around 8am and she has to leave to work around 9:45. We only have one car so I stay at her house sleeping until it's time to go back to work. I work on sites during the day and the problem is that her sattelite internet doesn't work well with my hosting services. It's a DNS thing. At my house everything works fine, but I am only there Friday to Sunday morning. So during the week I have little or no access to my ftp, therefore creating a problem trying to test out a CMS.
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The easiest way is to set up a program like XAMPP for Windows or MAMP for the Mac on your computer. It will give you a copy of Apache web server, MySQL and PHP. This will allow you to to test any MySQL/PHP based CMS programs, ie Wordpress, on your computer.
Is there a way that I could have a pretend database on my computer that will allow me to install and test out a cms as if it was an actual website. Meaning, being able to use it on my laptop without being connected to the internet?
Now I don't know much about databases except what I have done with like my WordPress blog and my forum. If anyone knows exactly how I can do this, please consider helping me. I want to test out certain CMS' for my website www.thegdfc.com so that I know which will work best with what we want to use the site for.
Reason being is that I never go home during the week, because my fiance and I only have one car. I work the night shift and come home around 8am and she has to leave to work around 9:45. We only have one car so I stay at her house sleeping until it's time to go back to work. I work on sites during the day and the problem is that her sattelite internet doesn't work well with my hosting services. It's a DNS thing. At my house everything works fine, but I am only there Friday to Sunday morning. So during the week I have little or no access to my ftp, therefore creating a problem trying to test out a CMS.