Hi - Is it possible to have a set up - where you have UBBT installed on your local machine, as a stand-alone setup, for the purpose of testing new code or changes to code, as a stepping stone before finally deciding to upload your deltas to the production server.

Naz.

Yes, you can setup private copies for testing purposes. That's allowed by the license.

I also find it way easier to develop using the local machine, just saving and testing right away. No need to upload.

great

that's the only way to fly !

I use Uniform Server on another machine that I run a ubb install on just for testing

Wampserver 5 is better (imho)

So being as these are Windows based servers, does it make much of a difference if UBB finally ends up on a Linux box - albeit on Apache?

Tried it, didn't like it... lol...

No, not really, PHP/MySQL is the key ...

from what i've seen, you are much better off to run ubbt on a Linux box for the live site.

this is expecially the case for large DBs. and by large, i really mean HUGE

for development however, loading up WAMP (takes 10mins and you are running) on a windows box is so easy, that it doesn't make sense to have a Linux box to play around with stuff.

now, if you truly LOVE linux and have a home system with that installed.. by all means go for it!

the only pain in the arse for development is Imagemagick. I just ignore that feature on my development environment and use GD2.

works fine, lasts a long time

agree