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I have a computer that's running Windows 7, that I do most of my development on. I have a spare laptop running Ubuntu. They are both connected to the same wifi, and I'm developing in Rails. Is there a way that I can use my spare laptop (Ubuntu) as a local server for development and testing that I would be able to connect to through my other computer (Windows 7)?
If it's not possible, how would I use my computer (Windows 7) as a local server for testing in Rails? I have XAMPP installed, I just don't really know how to use it.
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Running the local development server ( dev_appserver.py ) To run the tool, you can either specify the full path when you run dev_appserver.py , or you can add dev_appserver.py to your PATH environment variable. In the directory that contains your app. yaml configuration file, run the dev_appserver.py command.
The most popular local servers to date are Open Server, Denwer, Winginx, XAMPP. Open Server - a platform with a wide range of server software with powerful capabilities. Denwer - includes a set of programs - Apache, My SQL, PHP. You can fill in any site designer - Drupal, Joomla, WordPress and others.
First Install LAMP in Ubuntu. This is one of the thousands of links that explain How to do it. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
Second Add Sites to Ubuntu Server. Again this is one of the many links that explain how to do it. http://tuxtweaks.com/2009/07/how-to-configure-apache-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1984
Finally open your server only locally,I mean Localhost for your home network. To do that edit the file /etc/hosts and add at the end of the file
127.0.0.1 mysite
replace "mysite" for the name of your site and reload apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
You can access to http://mysite from any computer in your home network
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