On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 09:36 -0400, Norman ONeil wrote: > Thank you Soooooo much. That solves my problem.
Typically the reason to run a server off a CD (live cd) is for security reasons. Basically since it is a "read only" media it is harder to compromise than a system with the OS on a hard drive. Putting it on a USB drive would compromise that advantage. If the site is broken into there is a limit to what can be changed. If you put it on a writable media, more can be changed. The only other reason I could see for running off a live cd is for demo purposes. You do still need to think about security. Just because you can produce a working XP live cd does not mean that it is secure. There are some issues with using Joomla this way. As the last poster pointed out, you would need space for your database to store information. On Content Management Systems like Jumla all the content is stored by default in the database. That means that if your site is compromised, the site can still be defaced. It means that you can easily restore the system by wiping out the database, but you would loose all your content. You would still have your skin and your basic site, but it would be like restoring your site to it's initial condition. You would loose any content added after the CD was burned. If your reason of a "live cd" is security, and it is going to run only or mainly a Joomla website, why not use a Linux live CD? There is more expertise available to make a secure site that runs Linux from a CD. Joomla is the same and once the site was running you would need little or no Linux specific knowledge to run it.
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