I assume that you use a legacy Windows OS for your desktop, and run Linux on your server. Here's what I'd suggest.
Run VMware on your desktop, and create a Linux session which runs a webserver identical to your production webserver. Then I'd map the DocRoot to your CDrom, and use a rewritable CD to house the data. That would allow you to EASILY update content, and would provide a perfect demo opportunity for you. I've found that VMware has almost no overhead. So as long as the load on running a pure Linux server on your laptop, plus the load of running the Legacy stuff was less than a 100% load on your laptop, you should be fine. VMware is pretty expensive though. A potential way around the cost of VMware would be to create a Ghost of your laptop, then set up VMWare for the demo. When the demo was over, save the virtual PC session file (Virtual PCs (Your Linux Server) are just files that can be copied and saved, and moved around as neccessary), and reghost your laptop back to it's original state. This would allow you to install and reuse VMware repeatedly without exactly breaking the license on the demo. Having said that, you'd be breaking the "spirit" of the license, if nothing else, so at best it would be unethical. Legal or not. If you can afford it, then just buy it. It's a great product, and you WILL find other uses for it. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:52 PM Subject: (clug-talk) Offline content server/viewer? > Hi All. > Is anyone aware of a good way to stroe/view a web > site on a CD. > > Here's the situation: > > The outfit I work for has a site that provides > services for our clients. (Mostly providing > information) but some of the pages rely on Perl > scripts/CGI. > > Often, staff from our program go out to schools and > the like where there is no means to connect to the > internet. > > It would be cool if we could save the current > version of the site to a CD and have the Perl CGI > etc work. > > Anyone encounter a way to do this? > > Shane > > >
