This is a fine idea, and was one of the goals identified at the Plone Strategic Planning Summit last spring.
See http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7827 for details. We're in need of a champion for this. Note that the champion doesn't have to be the person who does the final implementation; rather the champion needs to own the goal and find and push the folks who can get it done. Steve On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:55 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-unified-installer/tutorial-all-pages) >> >> 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] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup > -- Steve McMahon Reid-McMahon, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
