Which local hosting environment?
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I am the admin for several online cms websites but am not an expert in this.
I want to run several localhost websites which will only be available in-house/at home including but not limited to:
all the family history research documentation/audio/film that I have
a Piwigo archive gallery with 10s of thousands of photos
a biography website.
I have a spare PC. I want it live potentially 24/7. The likely maximum simultaneous in-house users would be three. I don't want to use a NAS box.
My question is, should I run several VMs simultaneously or something like Xampp with several folders available simultaneously or even something that I don't know about? Would appreciate some feedback on the recommended architecture. Thanks!
I want to run several localhost websites which will only be available in-house/at home including but not limited to:
all the family history research documentation/audio/film that I have
a Piwigo archive gallery with 10s of thousands of photos
a biography website.
I have a spare PC. I want it live potentially 24/7. The likely maximum simultaneous in-house users would be three. I don't want to use a NAS box.
My question is, should I run several VMs simultaneously or something like Xampp with several folders available simultaneously or even something that I don't know about? Would appreciate some feedback on the recommended architecture. Thanks!
paul.deitch said:
I am the admin for several online cms websites but am not an expert in this.
I want to run several localhost websites which will only be available in-house/at home including but not limited to:
all the family history research documentation/audio/film that I have
a Piwigo archive gallery with 10s of thousands of photos
a biography website.
I have a spare PC. I want it live potentially 24/7. The likely maximum simultaneous in-house users would be three. I don't want to use a NAS box.
My question is, should I run several VMs simultaneously or something like Xampp with several folders available simultaneously or even something that I don't know about? Would appreciate some feedback on the recommended architecture. Thanks!
If you're happy with xampp use that and set up a number or named virtual hosts in Apache.I want to run several localhost websites which will only be available in-house/at home including but not limited to:
all the family history research documentation/audio/film that I have
a Piwigo archive gallery with 10s of thousands of photos
a biography website.
I have a spare PC. I want it live potentially 24/7. The likely maximum simultaneous in-house users would be three. I don't want to use a NAS box.
My question is, should I run several VMs simultaneously or something like Xampp with several folders available simultaneously or even something that I don't know about? Would appreciate some feedback on the recommended architecture. Thanks!
Configure the named virtual hosts with something like site1.local, site2.local etc.
In the hosts file of the local users add for example "192.168.0.20 site1.local site2.local"
On the users PC goto "http://site1.local" etc
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