Re: [MacPerl] Testing a perl cgi offline

[John Delacour <JD@EREMITA.demon.co.uk>]

At 5:15 pm +0100 7/1/00, John Neale wrote:
>But I want to develop the script, and test it, off-line on my own Mac
>PowerBook. Could someone suggest to me what my best options are?I've got
>Personal Web Sharing installed, but it seems I have to be on-line to get an
>IP address so that I can in turn look in my own hard disk web page folder
>to access the script.


I am working with MAcOS 7.6.1 at the moment because it's faster than 
8.6 for most things.  So I am using NetPresenz as my server.

<ftp://ftp.stairways.com//stairways/netpresenz-41.sit.bin>

Whatever local server you are using...

Set up a TCP/IP config set with just the following

Connect via:AppleTalk (MacIP)
Configure:Using MacIP Manually
IP Address:127.0.0.2

I think you can use any IP address you want, for example it makes no 
difference whether I write 127.0.0.2 or 158.152.20.126, which is my 
fixed IP address allocated by Demon.  Others are probably far more 
knowledgable than me on these questions, but I have things working 
with this set-up and can FTP HTTP or Gopher to my own machine without 
a connexion to the Internet.

You can switch to this congig set using the control strip or set up a 
location to use it.  I hate the fuss of the location manager but I 
suppose it has its uses once you've set it up.

JD





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