My webserver has been around for last 3 year and I have 1000s of html files lying around.

I would like to implement a staging server so that I do not modify the live server anytime before testing the change.

I use Apache 1.3.27, Perl. Could someone help me on how to implement a staging server for this?



thanks

gp

You could install apache/mysql/perl etc on your local pc and use that as a staging server or testbed.

Paul, Thanks for your suggestion.

The only problem I am facing is with the absolute urls used in all these pages. Due to this, I am not able to setup he staging server on the local machine.

Is there a tool that can convert all the absolute urls to relative urls?



thanks

You could do a search and replace with a text editor if you only had a few pages, or a quick command liner could do it i guess.