Production-quality LAMP stack for Rackspace CloudServer

Hi all,

I’m looking for a pre-configured, pre-validated, pre-everything :-) minimalist LAMP stack for a Rackspace CloudServer. More specifically it would have:

1. An automatic update service for the entire stack, for any security patches, etc.
2. Email (outbound only)
3. Firewall setup with ports 80 and 443 open, and anything else that is absolutely necessary (such as ssh access)
4. Perl, in addition to PHP, and the ability to add Perl packages from CPAN as needed.
5. phpMyAdmin
6. some sort of server-side traffic/analytics tool such as urchin

Am I dreaming here? This should be fairly easy… and I would be more than willing to pay for this as a monthly/yearly service, particularly since I’d be getting regular automated updates, if the fee is reasonable.

Does Bitnami or anyone else offer this? If not, any plans to do so in the very near future?

One possibility I was thinking about was to download and install the “Native” stack shown here:
http://bitnami.org/stack/lampstack
into my Rackspace CloudServer, as some else appears to have done so with LifeRay. However, is this approach production-strong? Does it do automatic patch updates for all the relevant components?

I, like many other programmers out there, can probably hack this together, but just don’t feel comfortable setting up a PRODUCTION configuration.

In addition, for development, it would be great to have the exact stack described above, but with development tools (SVN, VPN, SMB, or whatever is best & secure).

Thanks in advance!

Hermann

Hi Hermann,

Based on your requirement for automatic updates (which we don’t provide), at this point the easiest way is to use the native stack provided by the vendor and install the rest yourself. Regarding a server-side traffic analysis tool, there is no need usually to install anything locally. You insert Javascript in your pages and that gets collected by Google Analytics. You can install your own server like Piwik (http://piwik.org/) but we recommend that is down in a different server.