Suggestions for all stacks

1.) Is there a way to integrate multiple stacks, such that the common components are reused rather than installed side-by-side?

For instance, I have installed both the WAMP and Ruby stacks for development, each of which come with Apache and MySQL. At the moment, installing both means I have to run 2 instances of the MySQL server, one on a non-standard port. And ditto for Apache. Also, in both cases I want to drop the PosgreSQL module in as a replacement for MySQL, but it appears I can only do so for WAMP (or at least the installer is only looking for the WAMP install folder). It seems like it would be trivial to install all stacks into a single Bitnami program folder, with each stack component (MySQL, Ruby, Apache, etc.) getting it’s own folder. (This is pretty close to how WAMPServer 5 is installed.)

2.) Please remove the password restrictions from the MySQL setup screen. In a development environment it is often useful to have a blank password for the root MySQL user. I could deal with a warning that popped up if it was blank or otherwise didn’t meet strong password guidelines.

Thanks Chris, we really appreciated your feedback.

1.) Is there a way to integrate multiple stacks, such that the common components are reused rather than installed side-by-side?

That is our idea, we would like to create a common platform to install modules over it. Currently you can install RubyStack which also includes PHP (to support phpMyAdmin) and you can install the PostgreSQL module and all BitNami application modules.

2.) Please remove the password restrictions from the MySQL setup screen.

As the modules use the same password, this restriction is only to ensure that all web applications will run correctly. If you want to change the mysql root password try the following command from the WAMP Stack console: Start → BitNami WAMP Stack → use_wampstack

$ mysqladmin -u root -p’old_password’ password ‘new_password’

Thanks for your feedback. Do not hesitate to post any other suggestion that could improve BitNami Stacks.