Is There A Free Virtual Server I Can Run On My Computer To Practice Using Ajax, And Server Side Technology?
if you know of one, could you please leave basic instructions on how to download, install, and use it, and maybe a tutorial on how it works or something? that would be great, thanks.
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Microsoft Virtual PC is pretty simple. Go to the link, download and run it.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/product…
Microsoft Virtual Server and Vmware Server are also both free but are more complicated and are overkill for your needs. There is also one called Virtual Box which I’ve used but I had problems getting networking to work in the virtual machines.
You just need a simple web server, like Apache (good for php) or Apache Tomcat (good for jsp). They are free. Other server side technology may mean asp, for which you need the microsoft IIS server (I have no idea if it’s free or not).
You can install any of these locally on your computer. You would access the page typing http://localhost/ or http://localhost:8080/ or whatever port number you configure when you install them.
note that you don’t need a virtual server. a simple local server does the job too, even for AJAX.