Setting up a testing server

I'm replacing my website of html with a more advanced asp navigation system. I need a work area that mimics the website so that when the time comes I can just update the full site.

I'm working in a virtual directory, in the domain using e.g. '/images/imagename.jpg' this causes asp to look in the main domain images directory, not the local one in my subfolder. The thing is, for my navigation to work, I want to be using the forward slash in this way so that pages in subfolders can still pick up images, etc from the domain root folders in this way.

How do I set up a local testing website that mimics the main website? So that when I'm happy I can just copy over the files without making any changes?

I don't quite understand the problem... If you're using relational paths then it will work on the website, or locally.

If you're worried about accessing files located in directories below where your files are, then you can use ../ to go down a directory.

How would you set about creating a work folder that you checked by accessing it locally?

What OS are you using locally?

I'm working on XP and the server itself...

XP Pro or Home?. If you have XP Home you cant install a local webserver.

If you have XP Pro, go to add/remove windows compontents and select "Internet Information Services", this will give you (almost) exactly the same as what you have on your W2K Server, except you can only have 1 website (the default site) which you can play around with. There will be an Inetpub/wwwroot folder on your C drive for the files and you type http://localhost/ into you browser to view it.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="geneva, verdana, arial" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">If you have XP Home you cant install a local webserver.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">ermmm.... not exactly true Smokie.
You can install any flavour of other webserver other than IIS very straight-forwardly.

Even IIS can be installed with a few hacks... see this article:-
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020118.htm

Go ahead....

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Hi everyone - been actually reading the books last night and I've configured xp Pro at work but it still won't work on xp pro at home. Don't what's wrong with it. Everything is the same as far as I can tell.

Many thanks for the help so far.

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