Testing Pages Created by Jmol Web Page Maker without a Server
How you do this depends on what you set the local path to when creating the page.
  1. The local path was set to "." when the page was made: just open the .html file in the browser you want to use for testing (use Safari on MacOS X as FireFox does not pass relative paths causing a security error).  The page should work just like it would on a server.
  2. The local path was set to "../../" or something else when the page was made:
Local Path (used to test the pages on your local machine while developing them):
In the second text box of the Export to Web (Jmol Web Page Maker) dialog set the relative path on your computer to the Jmol applet.  This allows you to test the pages without uploading them to the server (on Macs you must use Safari for testing because of security issues).  The directory containing the .html file must be a subdirectory of the directory containing the Jmol applet.  There are two ways to do this:

Last Update: July 25, 2008
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by J. Gutow