Comments on: MoWeS – excellent portable WAMP web server stack

By: Twitter followers count (and much more) in WordPress | Rarst.net

Twitter followers count (and much more) in WordPress | Rarst.net — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:33:55 +0000

[...] API gives 404 on such requests. From googling around this behavior might be platform-specific (my local development stack is on Windows) and so tricky to get right.OverallScary and bulky but powerful. :) And I am holding [...]

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:47 +0000

@40hz

Thanks for suggestion, I will look into it. :)

Still portable is important factor for me – I like my apps to be contained and easy to transfer.

By: 40hz

40hz — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:18:59 +0000

I think a far better solution would be to take a look at the BitNami stacks over at http://www.bitnami.org

Although not “portable” like MoWeS, Bitnami’s offerings seem much more professional and better maintained. BitNami is multi-platform, with infrastructure stacks available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris.

Application stacks can be downloaded as separate modules, or as part of an all-in-one that includes WAMP/LAMP/MAMP/SAMP.

There are only 26 applications currently available as modules – but all the usual favorites (such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, Liferay and SugarCRM) are there.

They have also recently added Ruby, JRuby, and Django. Anybody who has ever struggled getting a Ruby stack set up on a PC will appreciate their inclusion.

Great resource! Check out BitNami when you get a chance.