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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’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 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

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

The PGDay 2009 is a chance for European users and developers of PostgreSQL to catch up, learn, build relationships, get to know each other and consolidate a real network of professionals that use this outstanding product for the daily management of relational and object databases. The event will take place November 6, 7 in Paris, so start planning for it. Checkout the PGDay website for more details … 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