cloggedone Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Hi, Instead of installing a web server tool on Windows (XAMPP, WAMP, etc), what would everyone reccomend for a virtual machine to test my HTML5 game on (specifically, in VirtualBox)? I'm mostly experienced in Ubuntu but just started using FreeBSD, but I was wondering what everyone else thinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chg Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Especially if you are not testing PHP running serverside, a production webserver seems like overkill (a production server running in a VM moreso - who wants to copy files to a VM just to re-test after a quick change?) Instead use something light for testing like grunt's web server, IIS Express; something that you point at some files and say serve these on some random port until I change my mind and that's all it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d13 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Brackets, Light Table and Atom editors will all launch a built-in web sever for you automatically when you preview your code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloggedone Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 i had no idea that was possible on atom. thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trova Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 You could also try Koding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noid Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Any of the phaser boilerplates using gulp or grunt also have the possibility of launching a webserver and automatically reloading the page when any of the files change. There also very lightwight servers that consist of a single executable. If you have a relatively old dropbox account you can even use the public folder to host your games. You can even test your game without any gameserver at all by temporarily disabling some security features in your browser(not recommended). Using a VM is completely overkill if the server's not gonna do anything other than serve the game files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psygnus Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Simplest thing i use in Windows is mongoose.Just an exe file!It has been archived as a project, but anyways works just fine if don't need any server side scripting https://code.google.com/archive/p/mongoose/downloads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno_ Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I am a windows user, só I use IIS to host the game locally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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