Bitnami package for LAMP
Bitnami by VMware | 8.2.18-2-r02 on Debian 12Linux/Unix, Debian 12 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Bitnami LAMP
Bitnami "Cloud Hosting Console" ?
Where is it? We couldn't find this page so we uninstalled Bitnami LAMP and installed an standard AWS LAMP instead.
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not the latest software and no option to use PHP as an apache module
not the latest software and no option to use PHP as an apache module. was looking for PHP 5.5+ but it installs PHP 5.3 and i saw there was a dev version with PHP 5.6
Everything I Needed
I love coding but I absolutely HATE setting up systems and environment, as well as working from the command line. Bitnami MAMP stack is my solution for developing web applications locally and I am very pleased with how simple and easy it is to set up and use; so naturally when I saw a LAMP stack version for AWS available when getting my site online I figured I could try it out and save myself the hassle of trying to install Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc and configuring it myself. Happy to report that after a couple minutes of reading up on how to do things (e.g. check documentation for the passwords, figuring out what clients to use to connect to the servers, etc) everything was up an running perfectly! Great product Bitnami - thanks for saving me a lot of time and stress!
Not a vanilla LAMP stack
I'm sure that the Bitnami stack is good when used for it's intended purpose as a rapid app deployment mechanism.
However, I was looking for a vanilla LAMP stack that could get up and running quickly, and this isn't it. It changes several Linux conventions which is annoying, for example:
- you can't use standard "service XXX restart" commands but must use the /opt/bitnami scripts instead.
- .htaccess files don't work out of the box
Excellent
This AMI works exceptionally well and seems to be relatively secure. The only thing I had a hard time with was getting the password for the root account/mysql so I could access phpmyadmin properly. I inadvertently discovered that the default password is actually randomly generated during startup on another support forum for a different AMI. The instructions for this AMI indicated that the password was simply "bitnami" when it was in fact the randomly generated password created at startup. After I figured this out I was able to use the AMI to deploy a web application with relative ease.
Great server out of the box
This AMI is a great starting point to host any website. Most of the settings which are there by default are very much optimized.
Another thing which I like about this AMI is the security points which are covered. Very simple things like blocking phpMyAdmin etc.
Overall it's very easy to manage multiple applications and run the server peacefully. Installing new features are easy and their documentation is very good.
Need a web app up fast? This is what you need
I was prototyping a new web app and I wanted it online quick. Thanks to Bitnami I was able to get straight to coding the app instead of having to spend time setting up the whole stack.
I've now got my app connected to an RDS instance, so if Bitnami did a version of this without MySQL it'd be even better!
Garbage cache configuration
Despite restarting the EC2 instance multiple times, restarting Apache and Varnish services, and disabling APC any files outside of htdocs are cached indefinitely with no documentation.
I tried...I failed
Nothing easier than configuring a stack by yourself.
Messy docs as complicated as on AWS.
Why pay for complicated things, I don't have time to waste.
Satisfactorily
Everything is quite transparent, but without file holder still can not do both in general and in any system that needs to be sharpened for themselves.