[PLUG] Network server and client simultaneously on same hardware? Possible? How reasonable?

[wes]

I don't know how strange your siblings claim you to be, but whatever it is,
you're probably more so.

-wes

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:

> Thank-you wes and Rich.
> So I'm not quite as strange as my siblings claim ;/
>
> On 03/20/2017 03:33 PM, wes wrote:
> > you certainly can. simply point your browser (aka HTTP client) at
> > http://localhost. configure apache (aka HTTP server) to serve the
> desired
> > website with the virtualhost defined as "localhost" and you should be
> good
> > to go.
> >
> > -wes
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> My Pastor has asked me to administer the church's new website {designed
> >> and hosted by a consultant using WordPress}. I would like to run my own
> >> copy of standard WordPress physically locally for self-education.
> >> Reading wordpress.org, WordPress inherently assumes it is running under
> >> Apache (IIRC). I have an old desktop which physically does not have
> >> ethernet - the reason for another thread. In the meantime, can I run a
> >> client and server simultaneously on my one other operable machine?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
>
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