I have an OFFLINE WAMP stack and wish to use IPB locally to play around with things. I am doing this instead of playing with things on my live site. Surely this is allowed for development purposes but I can't get it to install since it's OFFLINE and as a result cannot verify the Licence key. anyone know how to make this work?

add -TESTINSTALL to the end of your Licence key

BOOM, I new there was some trick

Thank you

spoke too soon... doesn't work still

I think it's still trying to check online for validation.

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There was an error communicating with the IPS License Server: Connection timed out after 10000 milliseconds. Please try again later or contact IPS technical support for assistance.

 

make another fresh copy of the files and install it 

when it asks for the Licence key 

you add your Licence key like this 

1234567890-12345-12345-1234567890-TESTINSTALL

3 minutes ago, TAMAN said:

make another fresh copy of the files and install it 

when it asks for the Licence key 

you add your Licence key like this 

1234567890-12345-12345-1234567890-TESTINSTALL

yes that's exactly what I did. It then tries to validate it online.. But like I said this is an offline server.  Any way around this?

uh sorry i misunderstood, no you must connect to internet cant install without verifying a Licence key

connect to internet for a couple seconds then there is no problem shutting it down after the installation 

It's behind a wall, nothing gets in or out.

well in this case you can install a installed suite xD for example download all your website files put it in flash or whatever and paste it in the offline server you have 

download your website database and import, you will have your website ready and its already installed no need to verify the key or whatever 

not really hard

I was going to mention that, make a complete copy of the site and then add the testinstall at the end and it should work no issues.