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Two weeks in using Bitnami. Very impressed and satisfied so far. Have set up two development servers that are now running exactly as I wished. The Bitnami component of the elapsed time took about an hour to get fully fleshed LAMP servers with all the apps I wanted. The Fred component -- making application mistakes, debugging them, fixing, deleting, restoring -- took the remainder of the two weeks.

My Bitnami wish list as of today:

  • dashboard: add new apps to existing servers
  • dashboard: rename of backups. "Restored-from-backup-20110915.bitnamiapp.com" is pretty cumbersome.
  • dashboard: run ctlscript.sh from dashboard. why not? would save a lot of time on stop/restarts.
  • realtime support - chat or IRC (#commented b/c I realize this is a business issue depending on $ and resources)
  • higher "N" of users -- this forum needs more activity to be reliable as a trouble-shooting tool'
  • a different editor for Answers - the way this thing does list bullets is stupid! ;-) try it.

What are other ideas?


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asked 16 Sep '11, 08:34

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edited 09 May '12, 07:55

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+1 for adding new apps via dashboard

(27 Apr '12, 09:28) Benjamin

Sample output of new apps via dashboard/script: (assuming plain lampstack installed)

$ ./ctlscript.sh install joomla  
Checking config ... done  
Downloading from https://download.bitnami.com/apps/joomla-latest.tar.gz  
.................done  
Extracting to $DOCUMENT_ROOT (/home/user1/lampstack/apache2/htdocs/joomla)...done.  
Creating default database 'joomladb' for user 'root'/'admin'...done.  
All set ... redirecting browser to install page...  
Congratulations ... joomla is installed!  
$

That is just a suggestion, us programmers being lazy people :)

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answered 09 May '12, 02:06

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edited 09 May '12, 02:07

my #1 priority would be installing multiple Redmine instances on the same stack. I'm working on Redmine Java API and I need a lot of Redmine instances for regular testing. it's a pain in the ... to install all them manually. they all want different versions of everything. it's a hell! I was very happy to find Bitnami stack, but it turned out I can't install Redmine 1.4.3 as a module after I already installed Redmine 2.0.2 in my "stack". the new install partially overwrote the old one! so redmine 1.4.3 was launched with Redmine 2.0.2 database left from the previous install. totally messed up. I need 8-9 Redmine instances on this server and installing a stack per instance (and having 8-9 apaches and mysql servers) is not a great idea...

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answered 19 Jun '12, 02:35

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Thanks for your feedback, this is a popular feature and it is present in our TODO list.

(19 Jun '12, 02:57) Beltran Rueda ♦♦

Beltran, are you planning to implement this any time soon? this would be a great feature to support.

(19 Jun '12, 14:09) AlexBitnami

I would love to see a Virtual Machine version of the RubyStack which includes Postgres as well as or as an alternative to MySQL. Or is there any other way of achieving this? Can I install the Postgres add-on into a virtual machine created initially with the Ruby Stack? The documentation seems to suggest that modules can only be used with native installs on top of LAMP/WAMP etc stacks?

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I like the Voting section, but it is cumbersome to step through each application, one at a time, and view the brief description, etc. With a little javascript, would it be more useful to add the first X characters of the description, and allow expansion, if it looks attractive, to show the whole page?

For example:

n Votes SMW+ | semantic enterprise wiki that lets you tag, process and query data...|v| [VOTE] [SHARE]

==------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The 'v' down arrow would open a fuller description.

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answered 01 May, 20:45

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Thank you very much for your suggestion. We will look at it.

Best regards.

(02 May, 02:51) victor ♦♦

Thanks a lot for your feedback! This wish list is very useful for us and to decide the next improvements in BitNami :)

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answered 17 Sep '11, 13:52

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IRC is a definite must. (pref. FreeNode) It's hard to actively engage in or be a part of a FLOSS-based community without IRC, even if it's an informal gathering of users to help each other out

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answered 14 Oct '12, 18:52

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Thank you for giving us your opinion.

(15 Oct '12, 09:55) victor ♦♦

Yes, you can install the BitNami PostgreSQL module on top of BitNami Ruby stack.

I hope it helps you. Best regards!

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answered 30 Jan, 04:45

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A BitNami Moztrap installer would be nice. :) https://moztrap.readthedocs.org/en/1.4.6/installation.html

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answered 10 May, 16:41

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Thank you for the suggestion. Could you please suggest it for our bi-weekly contest and promote it?

http://bitnami.com/contest

That way it will be packaged for sure if it wins!

Regards.

(11 May, 04:48) victor ♦♦
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