can i work on website without a host

  • Hi all im just curious if i can build a website without a host. atm i am using a friends host but would like to get off there and then get my own soon, but in mean time want to build site on my computer.

    is this possible thanks

    thanks

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  • It is certainly possible to “build a website” using webserver software on your own computer, the easiest way to do this is to install one of the packaged webservers that provide Webserver + PHP + mySQL in a single installation, these go by the names of LAMP / WAMP / MAMP / XAMP etc, one such suite is available from: https://www.ampps.com/
    Once you have built your website it is highly advised that you use a web hosting service to make it accessible on the net, it is possible though not advisable to make your localhosted website accessible from the net.

    Thread Starter Mrgem79

    (@mrgem79)

    ahh k cool i just youtubed it and got onto wamp.

    hopefully tomorrow i can get my site from my mate and build it thru local host first. issue i have is when plugins fail he cant get to site for weeks, so atleast if its local if plugin fails i can undo process.

    last question can you ad multiple sites for the local host?

    thanks heaps

    Yes you can run multiple sites on local host, DO NOT use “multi-site”, rather use the “VirtualHost” technique, details here:
    https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
    And add the website names to your hosts file, details here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29

    Using this technique you will be able to bring up your present test site without changing anything except your “wp-config.php” file for the database settings. You can keep the website name the same.

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