Recent Posts by Chris B

Topic: Stacks suggestions / Addition to existing LAMP/SAMP stacks

It might be useful then to have separate development and production versions of each stack.

Topic: Stacks suggestions / 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.