Replying to ccammack:
I assume you are referring to your answer in that thread in which you describe importing the necessary files from a remote server
However, my question is about development such that a localhost webserver creates the webpage from files available locally.
Later edit:
I just noticed that the link you posted is to post /34 in that thread. That post /34 in that thread is also about something other than what my question is about. (I rely on a PHP instruction to populate the navigation column of each webpage, so that is a dependency on being able to use a webserver that provides PHP functionality.)