Your tips for localhost web dev

As a web geek you may have your computer set up to do web dev work locally. Do you have any tricks or techniques you can share that make your life easier? Leave a comment here or on twitter.

Matthew Nuzum

Web guy, big thinker, loves to talk and write. Front end web, mobile and UX developer for John Deere ISG. My projects: @dsmwebgeeks @tekrs @squaretap ✝

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  1. Good old Apache does the trick for me. A fully featured web server with plenty of horsepower, yet frugal enough with system resources that it will run alongside your other apps with ease. The only con: a bit tricky to configure if you are not comfortable with the command-line or a text editor.

  2. If you want to develop on Windows and use Linux for hosting I would advise using VirtualBox or VMware to install a virtual Linux server. Then using Samba map a drive letter on your Windows machine. You can then use your Windows based IDE/editor and when you save it will be saved to the Linux server.

  3. I do all my work via cloud computing, I pay about 1.5c per hour when server is up and I think that’s fair price considering that I don’t use my own electricity, hardware :).

    For beginners I always recommend XAMPP which works for any OS pretty much. It installs all stuff you need.

    Otherwise I would go with Apatche, Jboss.

  4. @matt I’d bet that @Joe is using rackspacecloud.com (rack space’s cloud product). Their 256MB/10GB hosts run 1.5c/hr

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