Monday, August 30, 2010

XAMPP and Google Chrome

This tip is for web developers who need to work on their websites while being offline and are using Chrome as debugging browser.
Chrome hasn't yet an offline mode as Firefox and can't show localhost location while disconnected from a network, so here's a workaround: we create a fake wireless network from the new connection menu (on Ubuntu click on the network icon in the Panel and choose "Create new wireless network") giving it a name and a password -so that people around us cannot connect to our computer-. Chrome will be deceived and we'll can work again on our site.