Guys, can you please move any further discussion about web-tools to vortex-B???
-Mark From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:orionwo...@charter.net] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 5:35 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools & animation generation packages Jed, I downloaded XAMPP and eventually unzipped the contents onto a thumb drive. I think running XAMPP on a thumb drive will make it possible to run my own portable test server wherever I go. I haven't run my own web server since the 1990s. I'm sure a lot of things have changed since then, particularly security issues. If I execute the xampp-control.exe control program and start up the apache server (and MYSQL) I noticed that this inserts an XAMPP server icon in my window's system tray. Ok, standard operation procedure. ;-) I can access http://localhost and see that XAMPP is running. Success! Ok, so far, so good. However, if I attempt to shut down the XAMPP server it seems shut down my entire household network. In no time my wife lets me know that she can't access her favorite web site where she has been posting messages... and what the hell have I done to the network this time! So far the only way I can get the household network up and running again (that is, after I attempt to shut down the XAMPP service) is to restart both my modem and wireless Lynksys router. That seems to clear up the communication problem. I suspect (I hope) my current approach is fixing the problem with a sledge hammer. Are you aware of a less brutal way of shutting down the XAMPP server while leaving a home network unscathed? Just curious. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
