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We have recently shipped a graphical tool to simply the servers management in AMP & APP Stacks for Linux, OS X and Windows. The BitNami Manager Tool is a simple graphical interface that can start and stop the BitNami servers that are located in the same installation directory. To start the utility, double click the file named ‘manager-windows’,‘manager-linux’ or ‘manager-osx’ from your file browser.

The use of the tool is pretty easy. There are buttons to start, stop and restart each … more

We have just released LAMP Stacks (Apache, MySQL and PHP) and LAPP Stacks (Apache, PostgreSQL and PHP) for Linux 64 bits. You can download and install these Stacks for any Linux 64 bits distribution. These Stacks are self-contained and independent of your system, very useful for PHP developers. Currently you can deploy all BitNami Linux Stacks in a 64 bits Linux system but it was necessary to install the compatibility libraries. From now on, you can take advantage of your 64 bits system and improve the performance of your web applications. We have also released BitNami PHP modules … more

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami RubyStack. This version includes significant improvements:

• Updated Ruby to the latest stable version 1.8.7-p334. If you want to use Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 you can download the 2.1-1-dev version of RubyStack.
• Updated Rails to 2.3.11.
• Updated Nginx to 1.0.2
• Phusion Passenger 3.0.7 with Apache and Nginx modules for Linux
• Updated Git to 1.7.4
• Updated PHP 5.3.6 for BitNami modules which requires PHP
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 3.3.10
• Updated gems to latest stable versions

We’re happy to announce that all of the BitNami PHP-based development stacks have been updated to include PHP 5.3 support. This include both the MySQL-based and PostgreSQL-based stacks. In addition to an updated PHP version, we include the latest release of phpMyAdmin, PEAR components and related libraries, including the much requested mcrypt extension. Because the Stacks are available as native installers, virtual machine images and AMIs, you can develop on a local machine natively or in a virtual environment and then deploy the application to Amazon EC2 for testing and production. This is the list of components and versions included … more

We’re excited to announce the newest addition to the BitNami library, the BitNami Magento Stack! Magento is an open source application for ecommerce. It provides a framework for building online stores, including a content management system, catalog management system, shopping cart, customer account management, Google Analytics integration, catalog browsing, coupon support and more. With the BitNami Magento Stack, you get a complete, ready-to-run environment that includes Magento and all of the other software it requires. Note that Magento itself will still require quite a bit of customization because the requirements of each online store are different. The BitNami … more

As we announced last week, we’re very excited to be partnering with SugarCRM to offer their Professional and Enterprise editions on BitNami Cloud Hosting. With this partnership, BitNami Cloud Hosting becomes the SugarCRM’s preferred method for deploying its software on the Amazon Cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting provides solutions providers, resellers and end user organizations with an easy to use platform for deploying and managing both the open source and commercial versions SugarCRM in the cloud. In one click, users can launch new servers, … more

We would like to send a special thanks to BitNami user Christian Riley for putting together a great demo of how to launch phpBB to EC2 using a BitNami CloudFormation template. As you’ll see in the demo video, he is able to launch phpBB to EC2 in just a few minutes using CloudFormation. In addition to phpBB, all other PHP and Ruby on Rails-based BitNami-packaged applications are now available as CloudFormation templates. Enjoy! … more

Amazon has recently released AWS CloudFormation , a new service that helps you describe a ‘stack’ of cloud resources and bring them up as a single unit. A CloudFormation stack can include among other resources load balancers, databases, EBS volumes and of course EC2 instances. A stack definition is called a template and can contain configuration information to be passed to the various resources being provisioned. At BitNami, we are pretty excited about CloudFormation and want to make it easy for you to incorporate BitNami stacks to your deployments. We have now CloudFormation templates for all PHP and Ruby on … more

After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• One-click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can … more

We are pleased to announce new BitNami Stacks for Moodle 2.0, the latest stable release of Moodle. This new release has several major new features:

• Community hubs, a directory of courses for public use or private communities.
• Repository support which allows Moodle to integrate with external repositories of content like Alfresco, Amazon S3, YouTube among others.
• Portofio support, so now modules can export their data to external systems.
• Course completion and prerequisites.
• Conditional activites.
• Web services support for administrative systems or mobile clients.
• Integration with plagiarism prevention tool such as Turnitin.

We’re pleased to announce that the BitNami AMP and APP Stacks have just been updated to include the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PHP SDK as well as updated versions of Apache and PostgreSQL (where appropriate). As the Amazon website explains it, "The AWS SDK for PHP makes it easier for developers to build applications that tap into the cost-effective, scalable, and reliable AWS cloud. Using the SDK, developers can build solutions for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more. " By including the Amazon PHP SDK in our Apache + … more

We’re happy to announce that all of the BitNami *APP Stacks and *AMP Stacks have been updated to newer releases of the bundled software. In all of the Stacks, PHP was updated to version 5.2.14 and OpenSSL was updated to version 0.9.8 (note that OpenSSL is not bundled in the WAMPStack or WAPPStack.) In the MySQL-based Stacks, MySQL has been updated to version 5.1.50. In the PostgreSQL-based Stacks, PostgreSQL has been updated to version 8.4.4. If you are not familiar with our *AMP and *APP Stacks, they are completely self-contained, ready to run development environments that include Apache, PHP, MySQL … more

We’re happy to announce the release of updated BitNami Stacks for SugarCRM, Drupal, Redmine and Alfresco. As with all BitNami Stacks, these new releases are freely available as native installers, for installation on desktops or servers, virtual appliances, which can be run in VMWare and Virtualbox, and as cloud images for Amazon EC2 (AMIs) and GoGrid (GSIs). If you’re not familiar with these applications, here is a quick summary:

• SugarCRM: SugarCRM is a flexible customer relationship management solution for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM can easily be customized and integrated with … more

What if your own in-house applications were as easy to deploy as BitNami stacks? We’re excited to announce that we are now looking for beta users of BitNami Studio, our new offering that enables you to create customized, ready-to-run virtual machine or cloud images for your own internal applications or open source applications in minutes. The goal of BitNami Studio is to make it easy for you to build, clone, edit, and test your own application stacks. It is extremely flexible and allows you to customize each layer of the stack – the application, the runtime, the operating system … more

A few days ago we released Enano CMS 1.1.7. This release incorporates multiple new features: * A new, lean wiki engine * A brand new theme, Enanium, usable while looking great. * A redesigned Administrative dashboard in the Administrative Control Panel * A new interface for viewing site logs, with more logged data to be able to audit more effectively * Includes PostgreSQL support * Improved Internet Explorer support. * Unicode (UTF-8) support everywhere. * A new (work in progress) tutorial for new users. * Live Re-Authentication. Administrator authentication doesn’t reload the whole page. * And more…

Enano CMS … more

We put together the video below to show you how easy it is to get up and running with one of the BitNami virtual machine images, or ‘virtual appliances’. This video features the BitNami Joomla! Stack on VMWare Player, but the steps are virtually the same for every BitNami virtual appliance. All of the virtual appliances will also run in VirtualBox. … more

Quick start guide from the guys at Frugle … more

There is a great post up on Techsnot (yes, a somewhat unfortunate name :) on how to install Wordpress on a Mac in under 5 minutes using the BitNami Wordpress Stack. Although the author (‘dogsnot’) installs the Stack on a Mac, the steps are the same on Windows or Linux. In a future article, the author will explain how BitNami Modules work. If you are using BitNami and want to help us out, writing tutorials like this is a great way to contribute. Thanks to Dogsnot for his article! … more

One of the most requested features in BitNami forums is the ability to support both MySQL and PostgreSQL in the same Stack. We are glad to announce that we have released a PostgreSQL module which you can install over LAMPStack, MAMPStack, WAMPStack or RubyStack. This module ships and configures the PostgreSQL database and the phpPgAdmin application to manage this database through the web with ease. You can find the new add-on in the same download page of LAMPStack, MAMPStack, WAMPStack or RubyStack. Once you have downloaded it, you can select the installation folder where you have installed your previous LAMPStack, … more