Phoebus hosted on localhost?

[vistafan12]

Hey,

I have a small question. How I can test the latest version of the Phoebus project on my own machine? Is it even real? If so, how can I do that?

Greetings.

[Moonchild]

You'll have to run a web server on your local machine and the necessary database, as well as a php interpreter.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Phoebus is specifically created to serve specific Add-ons Sites in a specific setup on a specific infra not arbitray ones and some of it is still very much manual or hard coded.

It has no concept of localhost and is coded to require a domain to determin an application and that doesn't even start to explain it.

Why do you want to do this and how do you mean "is it real"?

[Moonchild]

Why do you want to do this and how do you mean "is it real"?

My guess is they think what's up in the repo is not actually what's on the server and they want to see it "working" first hand. Or something.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Well seeing as I haven't done anything since Phoebus 2.0 landed but a couple of bug fixes, trunk matches release and live so what you currently see live IS the latest.

EDIT: Maybe they don't beleave all that it currently accomplishes can be done without 800 frameworks.

[vannilla]

It could also be to provide a similar service for some other application, not necessarily a publically available one, however strange it sounds.
Anyway, out of curiosity, when you say it needs a domain, does it mean it requires a domain acquired from a registrar, or can I also edit my hosts file to redirect "phoebus.local" to localhost and point Phoebus to it?
I don't plan to run Phoebus, I'm just curious.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Read index.php it uses domain names to determin application it is supposed to serve at any given time. Also works in tandem with the webserver configuration.

At this point, no one can run the software but my self because only I know how to set everything up. I do intend to continue reducing hard coded stuff and make it self populate and install but service to our functional needs take priority.

Moonchild could figure it out cause he has all the pieces via the backups if I got hit by a bus but that's really it.

[vistafan12]

Why do you want to do this and how do you mean "is it real"?

I would like to run this script mainly for testing and reporting bugs and making my own patches in the code. As for "is it real", I meant more about whether it's possible to run at all.

I don't want to create my "own browser" or something like that.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

It isn't designed to run in a reduced mode by its self. The closest thing to that is dev mode which there is an incarnation setup with a clone of the sql db but shares the datastore which is on the same server.

You can't just use it locally like that at this time. I'm not sure it would be worth the trouble to ever make it do that in any case.

What did you want to change?

Basically, as it stands, if you want to get involved in Phoebus development you are gonna have to work closely with me specifically. Independent development just isn't gonna fly with Phoebus.

[vistafan12]

What did you want to change?

It was just a simple example. If there was a bug, I would try to fix it and make a pull request for GitHub.

If it's not possible to install it on a local machine - okay, I understand.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

It is possible but to get it to do that would mean code changes in and of its self and a specialized setup not a generic one. You'd still need to me to give you the secrets to set it up and that kind of testing wouldn't be real world enough to be very helpful.

You can still help but it isn't going to be a standard scenario.

[karlkracher]

btw: in index.php line 280 you are assigning a result from preg_replace() to $_finalValue which probably should be $finalValue.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

EDIT: I'll get it.

[vistafan12]

Okay, I still have one last question. @New Tobin Paradigm: Will a file with a sample database (sql file) be available in the near future? Or still not?

[New Tobin Paradigm]

I don't think so.