Douglas Robertson

Starts easy, ends miserably

• August 03, 2013
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This was an amazingly easy install. A few clicks and it was live. If you are planning on doing a very simple site this could be wonderful.

On the other hand I was not and quickly ran into problems. The instance has all the security settings configured as if it was a high security fully deployed site. This immediately creates problems for just about any package installation you want to do. They also do not use FastCGI and this creates its own additional layer of security issues. After weeks of having every single thing I tried to install in Joomla fail I just gave up. This was misery.

A few positive notes - Bitnami did their best to help me with issues. This is why I stuck with it as long as I did. Regrettably there was no fixing the root issues and it became easier to just start over. Also, this is the fastest way to get a Joomla instance live fast. If you don't need much it may be good for you.

Negative notes - Bitnami seems to have its own way of installing everything. Nothing was where I expected it to be. Working in the back end was alway an adventure in exploration. I wasted tons of time just figuring out where in heck they put basic install packages. They also got overly aggressive about the security. Despite this being a development server at the deploy, it was completely locked down in complete security mode. No fun to work with at all.

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