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How do people develop boards?

Do they set up on a host and tune it from there or do people set them up locally, configure and test at leisure and then upload the final site to their host?

How do you roll out changes and upgrades?

I like the idea of experimenting locally but don't have the expertise, or want the expense, of setting up MySQL and PHP on my PC. However, if it can be done easily at low cost, I will be happy to give it a try.

FTR, I have some database experience and been in the IT industry for a while but have no direct experience of MySQL or PHP.

Thanks

David

You can try something like xampp - which is totally free.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Best of luck.

I always test it on a test directory of my website.

The only thing I tested with xampp (on local host) was MyBB 1.4 in it's very beginning stages.