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Hello,

So I decided to purchase ImpactJS. I installed XAMPP and placed the impact folder within the htdocs folder. Whenever I type in 'localhost/impact/', the game, of course, runs.

Out of curiosity, I decided to change the title of the page from "Impact Game" to something else. I right-clicked index.html to open it in Notepad++ and changed the text within the <title> tags to "TEST". When I refreshed 'localhost/impact', the change did not appear, but when I went to 'file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/impact/index.html', the change within the <title> tags appeared but, of course, the game did not load.

I'm new to this, so I'm at a loss at what I should do.

Thanks in advance.

I would guess it's just a caching issue. If you're using Chrome I recommend opening developer tools (ctrl+shift+i), and then clicking the little gear in the upper right corner of the developer tools pan. The first option under General should be a checkbox where it says "Disable cache (while DevTools is open)"

This is pretty much a must if you're doing web-development/making games with Impact.

Or just reload with Ctrl + F5, this wipes the cache as well.

That&039;s why I wrote <1>. It's lighter weight than Apache and doesn't cache anything. You can also run your game from wherever without having to edit #.htaccess files.

You still have to turn off the caching in your browser but at least you don't have to worry about the server caching, too.

I feel so silly. Thanks!

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That&039;s why I wrote <1>. It's lighter weight than Apache and doesn't cache anything. You can also run your game from wherever without having to edit #.htaccess files.

You still have to turn off the caching in your browser but at least you don't have to worry about the server caching, too.

Oh, cool! I may switch to this. I just wasn't thinking thoroughly about what was going on; I should have been able to figure it out. Thankfully they were kind enough to respond swiftly.

Referencing your earlier posts... happy so far with your purchase? Getting enough help?

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Referencing your earlier posts... happy so far with your purchase? Getting enough help?

I intend to fiddle with it throughout the afternoon when I have time. I'm sure I'll be happy with it. Definitely got more than enough help than what I needed so far.

Thanks for taking an interest in my experience. =)