[Tigger]

Originally Posted by Worzel

Cheers, will do. I just spent a couple of hours poking around some free(ish) image / clipart archives - some of them offer small versions of photos for free (well, free plus acknowledgement). Not very helpful for most things, but might be ok for small pics to brighten up a blog post, if I can find some generic enough.

thats one of the things I like about the little guys you can buy them in sets so theme a site around them

check out shutterstock for full list

I've decided to bite the bullet and set up Ubuntu server in a virtual machine - might as well let apache et al run in their natural environment rather than trying to force things along on Windows. In theory, it shouldn't be too difficult. In reality, I may be gone for some time

have fun !! - cya in 6 mths

[Hony]

I did this when I had some complex WP dev to do a few years ago. I used "EasyPHP 1.8" on my PC which gave me a "WAMP" environment without any effort, then installed Wordpress on it manually. Use drivers/etc/hosts to give the local machine a full name (www.domain.dev) so I could access via a browser in a normal manner and troubleshoot url rewriting and things like that.

[Worzel]

Originally Posted by Hony

I did this when I had some complex WP dev to do a few years ago. I used "EasyPHP 1.8" on my PC which gave me a "WAMP" environment without any effort, then installed Wordpress on it manually. Use drivers/etc/hosts to give the local machine a full name (www.domain.dev) so I could access via a browser in a normal manner and troubleshoot url rewriting and things like that.

Thanks for that, Hony. I hadn't heard of EasyPHP before I got stuck into the VM setup, but it's something I'll keep in mind for future ref.

The VM is installed and running with one virtual host set up as a test (test1.dev), though there's probably some fine tuning to be done. I'm already running bind on another machine that's running as a combined mail / file / print / DHCP / DNS server, and I had planned to use it as the name server for fictitious .dev domains hosted on the new VM. But, since I'll have to read the docs carefully to figure that out, the hosts file makes a handy temporary workaround

Not quite the predicted 6 months to set up, but still my brain hurts