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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.