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Subject:Testing Web File Links? From:Karla McMaster <mcmaster%pcmail -dot- cti-pet -dot- com -at- CTI-PET -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:52:57 EST
I've run into a problem testing the Web files I create, and I'm hoping someone
out there has already come up with a creative solution...Here's the situation:
We run our web pages off a server that is not dedicated. Our URL is actually an
alias to a Unix machine being used on someone's desktop.
I create the web pages on my Mac, and when they are done, I copy them down to
the server. However, I have run into a problem testing links. Even if I recreate
the server's directory structure on my Mac, I cannot properly test the links
that go back to the home page.
How do you all test your pages before putting them on the server?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Karla McMaster, technical writer
CTI PET Systems, Inc., Knoxville, TN
mcmaster -at- cti-pet -dot- com
