Why not make a dynamic virtualbox and avoid the closed nature to appliances from a proprietary business model.
On Sep 30, 9:55 am, Chris Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pozitronios wrote: > > Uninstalled it and tried a fresh install using the unified installer. (ref: > >http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/installing-plone-3-with-the-u...) > > > But still cannot load localhost on my browser > > Actually, I had a GREAT thought this morning (note: I am NOT the one to > do this, as I don't have the expertise) > > I use VMWare (alot). On VMWare's website there are hundreds of > "appliances" - basically a down-loadable (free) image of an OS > preconfigured for some particular purpose. Eg: an Ubuntu server w/ > apache & postfix already installed and configured (configured as much as > it can be, w/o site specific info). > > Thus my idea: > It would be *really nice* to have a VMWare appliance with Ubuntu (or > Fedora or both) with apache, postfix, and PLONE (with apache already > configured to use PLONE). > > Question: how hard would this be? Ie. is there so much configuration > that it would be prohibitively difficult to create such an appliance? > > PS: having it setup to use https would be REALLY nice, but getting > certificate information might be too much ask in a generic install. > > Just thinking outside of the box... > -- > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Setup mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
