Re: [MacPerl] Testing a perl cgi offline

[Stephen Baum <sbaum@pgh.net>]

Set your TCP/IP address to 1.1.1.1 making sure your are not in any way
connected to the Internet, and use  1.1.1.1 as your host name, i.e.
http://1.1.1.1/yourpage.html Also use 1.1.1.1 as your router and name
server addresses.

I've saved a Location Manager setup so I can test Filemaker web databases
offline in "loopback" fashion anywhere I please.

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Stephen F. Baum                                   http://www.wqed.org/fm/
sbaum@pgh.net
WQED-FM 89.3, Pittsburgh
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Joel Rees wrote:

> >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.
> 
> Yeah, it turns out that if you don't have an address, you can't serve a 
> web. So if you are set up to get your IP address from a proxy or a 
> provider's server, you have to go on line to get it. A server that has a 
> fake-myself-out-for-test-and-development setting might be nice.
> 
> >
> >
> >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>
> 
> I've used NetPresenz locally, too. I think it has some nice documentation 
> and a nice showcase, particularly showing how to use SSI and CGI. I don't 
> think I would use it on live web, but for one machine local, it seemed to 
> serve both Netscape 4 and IE 3 properly. 
> 
> I was also able to get Personal Web Sharing to serve my site locally to 
> Netscape 4, but it had problems with IE 3, with CGIs and/or SSIs, I'm not 
> sure which. 
> 
> NetPresenz did a nice job of overwriting the text source to a CGI I was 
> trying to call, which is one reason I would not want to use it live. It 
> doesn't seem to be a hole for Macs, but it would be a big hole on a UNIX 
> box. (I forgot to make the CGI into an app.)
> 
> >
> >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.
> 
> Be careful not to actually get ON the web with a dummy IP address, or 
> with someone else's.
> 
> The setup takes a little work, which is where the docs in NetPresenz 
> helped me. You might need the Remote Only extension, to get Apple Talk to 
> turn on with no one else hooked up. It's either part of Open Transport, 
> or in the extras folder in your system disk (Apple Remote Access).
> 
> You'll need Apple Talk and File Sharing both turned on, then you will 
> need to enable sharing (read-only!) for the folder that holds the 
> development site. For safety's sake, you will probably want to switch off 
> Apple Talk access on all other volumes. Remember, owner might be someone 
> who was able to guess your password, and not you at all.
> 
> With all the above complete, set up your server and run it. NetPresenz, 
> incidentally, adds its own layer of access privilege management, which 
> can also be handy.
> 
> >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.
> 
> If you are using Mac OS 8+, you can just save your TCP-IP settings with a 
> name. Look under the file menu of the TCP-IP control panel for an item 
> called "Settings ..." or something like that. (Mine is Japanese, so I 
> can't say for sure what the English would be.)
> 
> >JD
> 
> Thanks, Mr. Delacour, for the clue on the dummy IP address, by the way. I 
> had forgotten.
> 
> >
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