Re: view *.php pages locally on NT?

"Reductor" <sjdtmv@tpg.com.au> wrote in message news:003a01c15654$4d89c280$eb00a8c0@mum... > > > How do I view these *.php pages locally. I'm using Windows > > > NT and I have both MSIE (preferred) & Netscape. > http://miniserver.wxs.org Is the URL to the Miniserver Site Its > a great > little web server, havn't had a problem, also the easiest to setup, and you > can install perl, php, and run isapi pages easily....also just install > mysql, set it up in php, and use mysql :D Thanks (also to Martin for his similar idea). I will look into that server. I've installed ActivePerl, which gives me a way to run .pl files, i.e. : c:\> perl someprogram.pl Does the php installation give me a command-line interpreter like that? Here's why I'm asking. I have a set of pages that I want to convert to php, but I will also need to drop those pages onto a CD too. I supposed I could view each page from the server and 'save as HTML' locally, but I was thinking that I might be able to run a php interpreter on the *.php pages and generate corresponding *.html pages in batch mode as follows: c:\> php index.php > index.html c:\> php about.php > about.html etc. and then run a batch search/replace program on the *.html files to change all links to .php pages to link to the newly-generated pages. Is there anything like that or does the install package just configure a web server? -- John A. Grant * I speak only for myself * (remove 'z' to reply) Radiation Geophysics, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa If you followup, please do NOT e-mail me a copy: I will read it here