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Bitnami by VMware | 3.5.1-1 on Ubuntu 14.04.3Linux/Unix, Ubuntu 14.04.3 - 32-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Not reliable at all ! Avoid at all costs!
I am currently running 16 (SIXTEEN!!) separate Bitnami Joomla Stack Servers deployed in various Amazon accounts. . All stacks are extremely unreliable and are timing out very frequently. I find myself having to reset either MYSQL or PHP-FPM or APACHE constantly on multiple stacks at least twice per day to keep the systems happy.
This might be because i have deployed T2-MICRO instances and they have not enough resources - but i am desperately looking for another solution now - not to loose all my customers to to unreliable solutions.
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Security over functionality
I was looking for a quick way to deploy a small number of Joomla sites and thought that Bitnami's image was the solution. Unfortunately, the security is so tight that this image is all but unusable.
The first problem I ran into was that the directory ownership and permissions are configured so that Joomla will not function properly. For example, the tmp and cache are not writeable.
The next problem I had was that the default account couldn't sftp to the image. I'm not a linux guru, and I'm sure there is a better way however, I got around the problem by creating a second account and adjusting permissions.
The final straw was that, in the name of security, phpmyadmin was restricted to logins from localhost. Bitnami wanted me to create a ssh tunnel, or some such.
This may be a good image once all the permissions are adjusted, but it's far from "ready to run".
default credentials no good
Bitnami's directory structure is bad enough (I've used their LAMP for some time(, but the default credentials in bitnami's documents for their joomla version aren't any good. Waste of time.
No Luck
Created an instance, try to login Joomla admin page. read the docs default is bitnami, password is in systemlog. couldn't login, went into ssh and reset the password with bnconfig tools successfully, but still cannot login. Couldn't find online customer support, gave up and terminate instance.