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28791, modified 19 Years ago.
A VMWare server image?
New Member Posts: 5 Join Date: 1/16/07 Recent Posts
I am using a VMWare server image for evaluating Liferay. It's a basic Debian linux OS, Liferay 4.2.0, Tomcat and MySQL. I would attach it to this posting, but at several GB in size is probably a little over the limit emoticon.

Do you (Liferay) think that you could offer an image like this as one of the download options? VMWare's server is free for most operating systems, and it would make the install a lot simpler for users that have trouble configuring databases etc.

If you don't pre-allocate the disk space and use compression it should come down to 500-750MB.

Rhys
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RE: A VMWare server image?
Liferay Master Posts: 753 Join Date: 8/5/04 Recent Posts
What a great idea. Do you mind if I go for Ubuntu?
28791, modified 19 Years ago.
RE: A VMWare server image?
New Member Posts: 5 Join Date: 1/16/07 Recent Posts
Not at all. Something that's small, secure and easy to upgrade is the ideal.
27601, modified 19 Years ago.
RE: A VMWare server image?
Junior Member Posts: 26 Join Date: 11/29/06 Recent Posts
Rhys Lewis:
Not at all. Something that's small, secure and easy to upgrade is the ideal.


You're right! And in fact ubuntu is small, quite secure, and with a very easy upgrading system.
Ok, Debian is more secure, but is not easy to use like ubuntu.
Am I wrong?
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25246, modified 19 Years ago.
RE: A VMWare server image?
Liferay Legend Posts: 1519 Join Date: 8/7/06 Recent Posts
Ubuntu is Debian based. Ubuntu's release cycle is just faster.
28791, modified 19 Years ago.
RE: A VMWare server image?
New Member Posts: 5 Join Date: 1/16/07 Recent Posts
When I chose Debian it was mostly because I had the ISO right there - far be it from me to start an argument about which distribution is 'best' emoticon
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18941, modified 19 Years ago.
RE: A VMWare server image?
Expert Posts: 405 Join Date: 6/28/06 Recent Posts
Brian Chan:
What a great idea.


I meant to mention this a while ago. I've started seeing a lot of evaluation software being made available as a VMWare image, plus a reference on the page to the VMWare player.

That would probably go a LONG way to eliminating issues when people are evaluating the software. Would cut the time down to ZERO! emoticon
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RE: A VMWare server image?
Liferay Master Posts: 753 Join Date: 8/5/04 Recent Posts
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49260&package_id=42607

liferay-portal-ubuntu-4.2.1.zip

What you get, from the readme.txt:

This is a virtual machine built for VMWare. Go to http://www.vwmare.com to learn how to run this VM.

The operating system is Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Liferay is running on Tomcat. Liferay will startup automatically when you boot the server. The Liferay service is located at /etc/init.d/liferay.

Alfresco, JBPM, and ServiceMix are also included on the same Tomcat instance. Alfresco is a JSR 170 compliant content repository. JBPM is a workflow engine. ServiceMix is an enterprise service bus.

Wildfire will startup automatically when you boot the server. The Wildfire
service is located at /etc/init.d/wildfire. Wildfire is the Jabber server used by Liferay to provide real time chatting.

Cyrus and Postfix are also included to provide email functionality. Cyrus is an IMAP server and Postfix is a SMTP server. You can test out the Mail portlet by creating accounts with the pattern xxx@liferay.com. By default, this mail server will only send and receive messages for the domain liferay.com. But since you don't really own the domain liferay.com, you're really only sending to and from this same VM. So don't expect to send and receive email from your yahoo.com or gmail.com account. This mail server is meant for testing purposes only within
the domain liferay.com.

ClamAV, Postgrey, Pyzor, Razor, and SpamAssassin are also included to show how an enterprise grade spam and virus filtering system is configured.

MySQL is used to provide database functionality for the above components.

On startup, this VM will grab an IP via DHCP.

Login as brian/liferay to see what the IP is. It will appear as part of your MOTD. You can su as root/liferay to become the super user.

Open your browser to http://IP to test out Liferay.

If you have any questions, please go to http://www.liferay.com on how to get help. Thanks for trying out Liferay!
29051, modified 19 Years ago.
RE: A VMWare server image?
New Member Posts: 2 Join Date: 1/24/07 Recent Posts
Hi Brian,
I try to config email and liferay tomcat bundle 4.2.1 on Ubuntu 6.10 base on installation guide but it doesn't work. Can you provide me a tutorial or guideline in step to step of config email on Ubuntu.
Thanks.
29741, modified 19 Years ago.
RE: A VMWare server image?
Junior Member Posts: 36 Join Date: 2/13/07 Recent Posts
Thanks Brain thats working well on a low spec windows xp box.

For some reason I cnat get vmplayer to run on my centos box emoticon


As a total noob, I assume there is a backend, if so how do I get to it?