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ocPortal installer released!

2009-06-30T14:16:28Z

We are happy to announce the release of a new application stack. ocPortal is a CMS with many Web 2.0 features for sophisticated sites. ocPortal supports many types of content (galleries, news/newsletters, etc.) – and integrating rich media and advertising into them. Community features include forums, member blogs, chat rooms, WIKI, and content commenting/rating. ocPortal lets you decide exactly how your site will look and behave. Features are plentiful, well integrated, and optional. Out-of-the-box your site will meet the highest accessibility and professional standards.

ocPortal is written in PHP with a MySQL backend and you can download the complete stack or just the module for an existing installation of a (L|M|S|W)AMP stack.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know at the ocPortal forum.

Enjoy!

Nice Bitnami Review

2009-06-25T20:17:15Z

Chris Vann, a happy BitNami user describes his experience using BitNami As he mentions, most PHP applications run in Windows just fine, but often they are complex to setup and configure for users who are not experienced. We try our best to make the process seamless and are happy to see people enjoy the results!

Rubystack Review

2009-06-18T07:27:01Z

Douglas Vos offers his impressions on RubyStack and how he will use it as a test system for a series of Ruby-related book reviews. You can read more at this blog entry

Japanese BitNami

2009-06-12T16:56:36Z

Honestly, we have no idea what they say, but it looks pretty cool! Checkout the video at the bottom. http://kachibito.net/software/php-mysql-local-server-bitnami.html

GitHub Firewall Install

2009-06-02T10:33:13Z

As you may know, we also have commercial clients that contract our services to build customized stacks for their applications. We are happy to announce GitHUB:FI which is a hosted version of GitHub developed for Logical Awesome and based on JRubyStack.

You can learn more about how it works at the BitRock Website

BitNami is on Twitter!

2009-05-27T23:09:41Z

BitNami is now on Twitter! To keep up to date with the latest news and releases, follow BitNami on Twitter. For any tweets related to BitNami, use the hash tag #bitnami so we can keep track and respond.

If you have technical questions, please continue to post those to our forums. If you have general feedback, feel free to send it via Twitter or post to the forums. If you want your app packaged next, make sure you vote for it!

Support BitNami - Nominate it for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards

2009-05-22T09:09:37Z

The SourceForge Community Choice Awards are now open for nominations! A lot of you have been asking how you can give back to BitNami, and here is your chance: Support BitNami by nominating it for the ‘Best Tool or Utility for Sys Admins’. The 10 companies in each category with the most nominations by May 29th will become finalists. The finalists will be announced on June 22nd and then you have a month to vote for your favorite project in each category. Winners will be announced at a party at OSCON on July 23rd. Nominate BitNami to help us make it to the finalist round!

How to install and make public any BitNami Stack

2009-05-21T07:28:28Z

In this post we will explain how to deploy any BitNami Stack in your own computer and how to publish and access it from anywhere. You can use a BitNami Stack to share documents with Alfresco or Knowledgetree, manage your client relationships with SugarCRM, your own blog using Wordpress or Roller, create your webpage with Drupal or Joomla, your development bug tracking with Subversion, Trac or Redmine and more with different Open Source applications. In this case, we will create a photo album with Gallery to share your videos and photos directly from your computer, so you can avoid having to upload videos to an unknown server and and be able to save as many photos as your computer has space for.

To access to your application from anywhere, you need a public IP. Your internet service provider (ISP) will give you this IP when you access to internet. You can check your IP at http://www.whatismyip.com/. The problem with this IP is that it is difficult to remember and your internet provider may change it often.

To avoid this problem, there are several service providers on the Internet which allow you to associate a name with an IP address. This name is called a “domain name” and the Internet DNS servers are in charge of converting the web page “www.example.com” to a public IP address such as “208.77.188.166”.

One of the most popular services is dyndns.org. You can get a free account and a domain name similar to this: yourwebpage.dyndns.org. Remember your domain name to give it to your friends :)

As you can see in the screenshots, it is really easy to create your free account and your Hostname.

Now it is time to configure your network. Simplifying things, there are two ways to connect to the Internet: using a modem or a router. If you have a modem, your computer uses the public IP given to you by your Internet service provider so you only can connect one computer to the Internet. If you have a router, you must configure the network so that you can access it from anywhere. The router uses the public IP and gives your computers private IPs, so you can connect several computers to the Internet because the router translates public IPs to private IPs.

In this case, you need to configure your router to redirect external requests to your server. Normally, the router has a configuration panel where you can modify the properties. You should add a NAT entry (Network Address Translation) to your router so it knows where your server is enabled. For that, you need to know your private IP and the port where is your Stack running (usually 80 or 8080).

Once you have a DNS and the router configured, install the BitNami platform to run BitNami-packaged applications. Download BitNami AMP Stack for your platform (WAMP for Windows, LAMP for Linux, MAMP for OS X and SAMP for Solaris). Once downloaded, double-click on the installer to start the installation wizard, which will ask you a few simple questions and then do all of the installation and configuration for you.

When the installation finishes, you can access the main BitNami web page at http://127.0.0.1 or at http://yourdns.dyndns.org. It is possible that your router will not let you access it from your own computer using your DNS name. In this case, you can use a free public proxy server to confirm that you can access from other computer to your BitNami Stack. For example, go to www.zend2.com and then write your DNS name. If everything is working properly, you will be able to see your main BitNami web page.

Now, install the application on BitNami that you would like to run. Be sure to download the Module, rather than the Stack, for the application you want to install. The Module will automatically install and configure the application to run on top of the BitNami Platform that you installed in the previous step. In this case, we have decided to install Gallery to share our photos and videos with friends.

Three more clicks and that is all – Gallery will be installed, configured and ready to go! To learn how to use Gallery itself, visit the Gallery project website. Do not hesitate to post any question or suggestion in our forums, we will be glad to help you. Enjoy your own video and photo server!

BitNami parla Italiano

2009-04-29T14:48:26Z

The guys at Risorsa Informatica blog have published an article on how to install PHPBB with BitNami

Gallery installer released!

2009-04-06T15:04:02Z

We are happy to announce the release of a new application stack. Gallery is a open source web based photo album organizer. It gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community site. The Bitnami Gallery installer provides you with a lot of pre-installed modules, and you can update module and theme lists directly from your site.

Gallery is written in PHP with a MySQL backend and you can download the complete stack or just the module for an existing installation of a (L|M|S|W)AMP stack.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know at the Gallery forum.

Enjoy!

Connecting PHP with DB2

2009-04-06T08:18:21Z

The Techs at Work blog recently published a detailed post on how to configure BitNami WAMPStack to access DB2 with PHP

WhyFloss Madrid 2009

2009-04-02T11:12:40Z

BitNami will be presenting at the
WhyFloss Open Source conference event taking place in Madrid the 21st of May. A number of other Spanish open source projects and companies will be present, so if you have a chance come and join us!

Drupal 6 book giveaway

2009-04-02T10:46:13Z

The folks at Packt Publishing have provided us with three copies of Drupal Multimedia and we plan to give them away to our readers. The first three BitNami users to write a blog post or email us at info@bitnami.org a review on how they are using BitNami , together with some screenshots, will get a copy of the book

BitNami can save your life!

2009-03-07T10:27:06Z

BitNami user Glen Winn uses stacks to save the day. We would not go as far as him by saying that BitNami can save your life, but we are glad we could be of help :) If you have other BitNami success stories, please let us know!

BitNami Enano CMS Stack Released

2009-02-13T21:57:56Z

We are proud to announce the addition of Enano CMS to our growing family of BitNami Stacks. Enano is a PHP-based content management system with some unique features. Special thanks go to Neal Gompa, from the Enano CMS team, who was the lead of the project and worked hard to make the new stack a reality.

Spanish BitNami Reviews

2009-02-05T08:29:07Z

A couple of popular Spanish review sites, Softonic’s blog and Tecnología PyME (re)discovered BitNami on January. They are not alone, this has been a great month for the project, with over 30% more visitors.

Evaluating WordPress

2009-01-19T11:56:47Z

Michael Badger explains how BitNami makes it easier to evaluate open source projects

like WordPress

BitNami as a requirement

2009-01-05T16:23:57Z

One of our goals with BitNami is to create an easy-to-use, ubiquitous platform that people can build against. Finding BitNami mentioned as the reference platform for a LifeRay freelance projects
makes us smile and signals we are on the right path.

Coppermine stack released

2009-01-26T12:03:36Z

We are happy to announce the release of a new application stack: Coppermine Photo gallery . Coppermine is a multi-purpose web picture gallery script. The gallery can be private, accessible to registered users only, and/or open to all visitors. The images are stored in albums that can be organized into categories. The application supports multiple users and provides the administrator tools to manage them. It also comes with multiple themes preinstalled.

Coppermine is written in PHP with a MySQL backend so you can download the complete stack or just the module for an existing installation of a (L|M|S|W)AMP stack.

Enjoy!

Using BitNami Tracks on your desktop

2008-12-09T08:49:56Z

The following article by a happy BitNami user shows you how to combine Prism, alltray and Tracks to create a powerful desktop GTD solution. This creative use of BitNami stacks is one of the things we wanted to foster when we started our project. If you find BitNami useful, and want to share your experiences, please let us know. Thanks to Mike for taking the time to create the blog entry.