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Web-Developer Server Suite at SourceForge.NET

Version Updates…
Apache 2.2.4 over 2.2.3
PHP 5.2.1 over 5.2.0
MySQL 5.0.37 over 5.0.27
OpenSSL 0.9.8e over 0.9.8d

mod_security 2.1.0 over 2.0.4 [with core ruleset]
mod_perl 2.0.3 over 2.0.2

phpMyAdmin 2.10.0.2 over 2.9.2

Drupal 5.1.0 over 5.0
MediaWiki 1.9.3 over 1.9.0
WordPress 2.1.2 over 2.0.7

Added…
mod_fastcgi v2.4.2 [SNAP-0404142202, 14-Apr-2004]

Removed…
Tomcat/mod_jk, PHP4, mod_aspdotnet have been removed. Will be packaged as component addons from separate downloads.

Web-Developer Server Suite at SourceForge.NET

phpMyAdmin has been updated and a major issue resolved. Hopefully this release also brings the random IE problems to a close.

All the Web-Framework Applications have been updated to their current versions. Drupal 5.0 is now in, over the 4.7 branch.

I’m looking for other developers to joint this project…

Contact:
devside_net at users.sourceforge.net

http://sourceforge.net/projects/webdeveloper

I encourage anyone and everyone capable, to join in the process of moving the project forward… Wherever that might go.

I’m looking for other developers to become part of the project. All work will be GPL’ed. You must be able to integrate and configure some subset of the current component base. All builds should be made with…

The components are built with VC++ 6.0, Service Pack 5, Processor Pack (MASM), and the Feb 2003 Platform SDK (the last ‘official’ VC6.0 PSDK). This is the same toolchain that ‘official’ release builds of Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc, are compiled under. VS.NET is avoided, to prevent mixing runtimes between major components, except for mod_aspdotnet builds.

Components that are already built with VC++ 6.0, such as Apache and PHP, we integrate as binaries — no need to build from source.

VS.NET 2002/2003 [and not 2005] is also needed to build mod_aspdotnet.

Developers skilled with ASP, Perl, and JSP [Tomcat] that can install, integrate, configure mod_aspdotnet, perl, mod_perl, perl-modules, and Tomcat/mod_jk are needed.

C/C++ developers for the Web-Developer Controller are needed.

If anyone wants to maintain a VS.NET build, you are needed.

If you can work on documentation and know the difference between things such as “its” and “it’s”, you are needed.

I think the next release, v1.94, might be put out on SF. Though there are still some minor licensing issues to deal with.

Also, the Web-Developer Controller needs to be GPL’ed to be distributed with the project. I would just do it, but the code needs to be cleaned up significantly before I would want to show it to anyone. It might make it in into v1.94, or it might have to be distributed separately for the time being.

So if you think you have the right stuff, AFTER you see a release on SF, contact me at admin @ devside.net. Right now there is too much to do and the future is always uncertain.

If you are skilled in C/C++, and can handle a few thousand lines if poorly written win32 api code spread across header files with some crazy looking stuff, you may contact me anytime you wish and take a great burden of my shoulders. Be warned though, you may never be the same. Ever see anyone duplicate all the handles on the system for no good reason?

Maybe thats a good thing though, about the code I mean… No one will be able to integrate it into another WAMP distro, GPL or not.

Today was the release of the Web-Developer Server Suite version 1.93, a transitional release to version 2.0

The biggest change from v1.92 is the inclusion of Joomla (CMS) and MediaWiki (Wiki).

I’ve included Joomla as it seems a bit more user friendly than Drupal, at least on the surface. And it is a very popular CMS. Though it is my understanding that Drupal works out better in the long run…

This time around, the Web-Framework applications are not fully installed by default, as they were under the previous version. The user will need to run the installation script of each component, which is linked from and/or is detected by the index.php file of each component’s base URL. Each installation script has been preset with default values for our setup. All the databases and database users have been created under MySQL. All that is required from the user is to enter an e-mail address and a user/password combo… A bit better than the former solution, but still not exactly what I’m looking for… I’m sure some users will get confused and will start to re-enter the already provided values under the fields with random data.

On the last note about this release, the Web-Framework applications are installed fixed… They cannot be deselected by the installer. The user can remove the web applications by removing the inclusion lines under components.conf. After that, you can always just delete the webapp directory, drop the database, and drop the mysql user, or leave it be. Something that will be corrected in upcoming versions.

Today was the release of the Web-Developer Server Suite version 1.92, a transitional release to version 2.0

The biggest change from v1.91 is the inclusion of Drupal (CMS), WordPress (blog), and phpBB2 (forum) into the Suite package. MediaWiki could not make it in due to a last minute packaging/installation issue. These components are installed by default under user admin with a password set [check Guide for URLs and passwords], bound to localhost. I know, its not the best solution, but I am working on something much more elegant. The main reason for this release was to just get it out, as more features are put in. Which will be the norm up to the 2.0 release… coming out very soon. I have just one more feature to add, a very major one, and also an upgrade to the dynamic dns system must be done to bring it inline with the other Dynamic DNS players.

I have also updated the DeveloperSide.NET banner, and the colors of the site. And have changed some of the content on the main page… giving it much cleaner look.

November 27, 2006. Released v1.91.

This release is a quick fix update on v1.90. Changes are listed under changelog.txt.

From now on I will be posting new releases on the blog as the News Forum is hardly read by anyone.