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Testing server in Dreamweaver - How do I test a php/mysql page against a remote database?
My MySql databases reside in a remote university server. I want to test my php/mysql pages in DW before I put them up on my web space. The programme asks me to define a testing server. What is this?
As long as you have access rights to any server and residing database, you can execute any php script on that connection. It is basically asking for the host-name, username and password to connect to the server. 
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April 27th, 2010 at 12:30 am
You won’t be able to test something with server side code unless you are using a live server, you can test it locally using something like apache.
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April 27th, 2010 at 1:20 am
I’m not familiar with Dreamweaver but I would suspect that you would need a web server with php running locally to be able to use the test feature.
But you may want to check these links which may help you:
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=31980
http://www.dmxzone.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=24279
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=176478
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http://www.t3technet.com/html-ed.php
April 27th, 2010 at 2:08 am
As long as you have access rights to any server and residing database, you can execute any php script on that connection. It is basically asking for the host-name, username and password to connect to the server.
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April 27th, 2010 at 2:25 am
If the database is accessible from outside the computer it resides on, just use its IP address to connect to it. (I almost never put a database on the same computer as a web site or other program that uses it.)
A testing server can be the real server (in which case you don’t define it) or you can have another server that you use for testing purposes, so that the public doesn’t see all your bugs as you create them. (My left knee is currently leaning against my "testing server", a little Acer box I run LAMPP on.)
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