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Oh. I see. That's good for me, then. I get just what I wanted out of it.<br />
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Thank you very much!
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I want to be able to develop my website on my C: drive and then upload it to the internet and put it on a web host when I am finally satisfied that I did the programming work correctly.<br />
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Can anyone explain what I type into XAMPP to do that?
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I want to be able to develop my website on my C: drive and then upload it to the internet and put it on a web host when I am finally satisfied that I did the programming work correctly.

Can anyone explain what I type into XAMPP to do that?

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