Joomla local testing

So, you want to test your Joomla! CMS installation on a local machine huh?

Well, historically it hasn't always been easy to load up Microsoft's IIS and run sites, and that's coming from someone who has been in this game for nearly ten years now.

You can imagine my relief when I stumbled across Joomla Stand Alone Server, or JSAS for short, from Joomla Solutions. JSAS installed quickly & easily and allowed a Joomla installation to run on a local machine with all the features of a fully-fledged server.

JSAS installs Apache, MySQL and the Zend engine, then allows you to add new sites, installing your own modules, components, templates etc and running the CMS without having to use & abuse your bandwidth.

Excellent. I just wish I'd known about JSAS a year ago!