What is a testing server?

Hi people,
Everytime I want to preview my site it says I must specify a
testing server. Can you please tell me what this is and what I must
fill in.
Thankyou,
Ruud4eva

Testing servers and previewing with temp files are unrelated,
Nancy.
It sounds like the OP has specified an ASP, PHP, etc. server
model for
his/her site, but not specified the details of the testing
server. That
would explain that prompt.
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> That is a server on which you preview pages before
taking them live to the
> production server. Most of the time, that would be
Internet Information
> Server or another server on your local machine.
>
> You can preview files using temporary files instead ..
go to
> Edit/Preferences/Preview in Browser and check the box
that says "preview
> using temporary files".
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> "Ruud4eva" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> Hi people,
>>
>> Everytime I want to preview my site it says I must
specify a testing
>> server. Can you please tell me what this is and what
I must fill in.
>>
>> Thankyou,
>> Ruud4eva
>
>

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