drcarl

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Thanks for the thoughts,

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though remarkably engaging 🙂

I actually did chuckle out loud; thanks.

don’t foresee any complications with putting your server root on D:\ rather than C:\. I’d even say it is better to have the server root on a drive where the operating system isn’t.

This would be WONDERFUL news.

The only catch is that, if you notice above, I said that ‘by default’ web servers run on port 80. They don’t have to.

I don’t care what extension (port) the server answers just as long as the call gets answered! The story your related is a nice analogy and it took me up another notch of understanding. As each day passes, my vocabulary and concept understanding increases.

If you are used to building in html/css then you are used to being able to create the whole site– format, content, images, everything– and upload the complete site. Because WordPress stores content in a database it is very difficult to work like that. You can make local changes to layout but most of your real content will be in the online database.

I am not used to anything! [insert laugh track here] I did build a website for my sister a few years ago. I used Dreamweaver and modified a template. There were some really basic (and important) things I just could not figure-out (tables, text-formatting). I did make nav bar buttons and a little movie for the header. I was amazed that the site actually worked. It was a beautiful site even before she hired a geek to slick it up with a bunch of Java.

I have been developing original content for two (or more) sites for a couple of years and am finally getting to the ‘make a working website’ stage. I am taking video courses on lynda(dot)com that are helping a lot. Currently I am completing one on using Dreamweaver CS5 and WordPress 3 to manage, manipulate, tweak, modify and otherwise run a site. There have been PHP and CSS modifications, and Dreamweaver CS% even has special functionality developed into it for CMSs like WordPress such as ‘site specific code hints.’

What I am trying to say in regards to where most of my content will be is that ALL of my content will be in (at least) two places: on my D: drive AND copied to the online server.

Thank you very much for your clarity.

Gotta love it when people help others.

Rather amazing, really.

Thanks

I have learned a LOT over the last 5 days, but still not enough.

I am still unclear about what complications I might encounter if I attempt to set-up everything on my much more spacious D:\ drive. The only reason I am installing PHP is to use it as a local testing environment server. Nobody needs to access this machine remotely. The only ‘remote’ thing I’ll be doing is putting the site(s) to a paid host.

By “set-up everything” (and for insight into what I am attempting), I’m referring to starting from scratch (uninstall everything [easier said than done]) and then installing onto my PC which is running Win7 x64: WAMP (MySql, PHP, PHPMyAdmin) and then WordPress onto my much larger D:\ drive which is already home to Dreamweaver which I’ll use to manage everything.

I really don’t know, yet I suppose there ~might~ be a need to change something in the “host” file which resides at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc.

A few days ago, nothing was working until I “commented-out” some multiple entries with a “#” [“127.0.0.1 localhost127.0.0.1 localhost127.0.0.1 localhost127.0.0.1 localhost127.0.0.1 localhost”] and added “127.0.0.1 localhost” as a working line. I have no idea where the repeats came from.

I also have no idea what I have to do to make “http://localhost” point to D:, of if that’s even necessary.

I have no idea what an alias is, of if one is needed.

I don’t know what access from “outside the server root” is, nor how to trick the server into thinking that the files are in the root by means of aliases, if needed.

I’ll appreciate any guidance.

TIA

drcarl