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    Upvotes26edited Mar 28, 2013 at 3:29

    Ok, thanks for the more specific info, ppl may remove their downvotes now...

    What you are proposing is a very common thing to do! You want to run your web application locally without uploading it to your host yet. That's totally fine and that's what your Apache is there for. Your Apache is a web server meaning its main purpose is to serve HTML, PHP,

    http://localhost/mytutorial

    while the absolute path may be

    c:/webservices/apache/www

    or

    c:/xampp/htdocs

    If you're working with Dreamweaver you can simplify the testing process by setting up your local serv...

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