CMS (lamp) on a pendrive???

lloydsj · 9 Sep 2007 at 19:21

Hi,

Basically i am looking at workin on a few of the php cms's... joomla, drupal, etc.

I've already got a webhost etc that supports them, but I was after developing offline. However, I use 2 desktops and a laptop so was thinking hoping to put my site on a pendrive and then just plug it in to continue development on each machine?

What would be the best/easiest way to do this?? was thinking about a lamp virtual machine image and then just installing the cms onto that? any alternatives? pitfalls? etc.

Cheers

chesterstu · 9 Sep 2007 at 19:24

I would install XAMMP on the USB device then just run that. Remeber though keep a working back up somewhere off the pen drive because they can be lost easily and those little usb ends don't like washing machines!

SiriusB · 9 Sep 2007 at 23:07

Agreed. Pen drives are for moving data about, not storing it. So make sure you save a copy on your machine before removing the pendrive. Give it a meaninful name too so you know when each backup is from.

Shoseki · 10 Sep 2007 at 01:36

Hmm I wonder how subversion would work with something like a MySQL database. Then you could set up a SVN repository on your pen drive, and update/commit when you finished your current work or want to switch to working elsewhere.

You'd also have much better protection, because you'd have a SVN repository on each device where you worked, as well as the pen drive itself, so 4 different devices would be 4 backups, as long as each time you started working you do the old svn update, svn commit.