I was recently doing some work for a client who wanted to show their website at a Trade Show – but the Trade Show was only providing internet for $1500 per booth for 2 days!!! To us it was too crazy to pay that much – and so instead, we built a local version of their websites on their laptop so they could properly show the site off – without needing internet. We did this without even needing to change the domain name – by simply temporarily telling their computer to point to a local directory on their hardrives when visiting that URL.

A bulk of this I got from this post here:
http://sawmac.com/mamp/virtual/

The general idea was to set up a MAMP on their laptops, create a virtual host file for the site, and then modify their hosts file to point the domain at their local IP (127.0.0.1) instead of at their website.

Just something to consider if you’re in the same boat! All of the info you need is in that post above to set this up 🙂

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