testing....

[Tai]

I am finding it very annoying that while I learn the scripting language, and test out code I have to upload it and run it server side, which with a lot of changes and tweaks means a lot of down time, is there any way to setup a local server/hive for testing purposes so we can test our code locally before pushing to a server?

 

[blur]

run a dedicated server off your computer

or something like that

 

[Sarge]

consider setting up a VMWare virtual machine on your PC.

Get VMWare Workstation, install a win 7 in there, and then take one of the server packs and insatll that one.

By this you can

a) simulate a real dedicated server environment
b) have "real" network connection for optimizing / checking
c) are able to develop on your main PC, and simply drag and drop your file onto the server VM
d) run your client decoupled from your server installation
e) dont have to redownload Arma 2 from steam, simply copy the OA directory and insert your CD keys in the VM registry

Only thing you need is some RAM, and a decent PC.

cheers, Sarge

 

[blur]

sarge knows best

 

[cen]

VM is one way.

All I did was copy my entire OA directory to a different drive, install MySQL and created the database. Then follow the instructions on this forum for setting up Reality and DayZ Lite server packs and run whatever map you want.

It creates all the files and .bat file you need to start the server then you can test all you want!

 

[suranic]

I'm doing the same as cen.

And it work quite well for testing!