Can I test my app in a EGit repository with Xampp locally?

Question

I am having trouble setting up the testing mentioned in the title because of the folder structures for Xampp and Git/EGit respectively. Can anyone recommend a guide or tutorial on how to do this?

Given Xampp is looking for the .htdocs/appname/ folder for testing the app but folder structure can be something like .htdocs/repositoryname/appfoldername, they are hard to match. Has anyone solved this?

Or should I be testing with some other software which is suitable for testing PHP projects in Git repositories?

Answer 1

You could make a symbolic link (even on Windows) in order for .httdocs/appname to refer to .htdocs/repository/appfoldername (with option Options FollowSymLinks set in the <Directory> section of your Xampp httd.conf file)

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The OP alieninlondon reports:

I found another very easy way.
Simply by putting the repository directory in the .htdocs folder and then accessing the app through localhost/repositoryfolder/appfolder in my webbrowser worked perfectly for me.