VMWare Open BlueDragon image made available
Update: We don’t support the direct Open BlueDragon image anymore. Instead, head over to the Elastic Server website and build your own Virtual Image which is available for VMWare, Xen, Parallels and more.
We are happy to announce that we have made our Open BlueDragon VMWare image available.
The image contains;
CentOS 5.1 (with all available upgrades as of 05/11/2008)
Tomcat 5.5
MySQL 5.0.22
Apache 2.x
and of course Open BlueDragon (build of 05/11/2008)
The image can be run with VMWare Workstation for Windows, VMWare Fusion (for MacOS X), VMWare Server and VMWare ESX. For those that don’t have any VMWare products installed, there is the VMWare Player available that let’s you run the Open BlueDragon image on its own and completely for free.
Update on 05/15/2008:
We just updated the Open BlueDragon image to hold the latest changes. These are:
- CVS access:
As of 05/15/2008 the Open BlueDragon project has CVS access. This is now also enabled in this latest update of the image. CVS checkout has been done into the directory /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/openbd. You can update the CVS Open BlueDragon now. “cd” into the directory and do a “cvs update” to retrieve the latest updates. - The deployed “openbluedragon.war” file has been updated to the latest release (as of 05/15/2008).
- All CentOS 5.1 updates have been applied (as of 05/15/2008)
Due to the new release and change in size (1.1 GB) I had to make a new torrent file. Please update your trackers, seeding clients, etc. Thank you.
There are two options to download the Open BlueDragon image that comes in at 1.1 GB:
Bit Torrent file (preferred) or
download it from our website.
This is a full blown setup, so you are able to deploy the setup for hosting or development. Tomcat runs on port 8080 (the default). Thus you can reach the Tomcat Administration at http://localhost:8080 and the default Open BlueDragon Installation at http://localhost:8080/openbluedragon or for the CVS deployment at http://localhost:8080/openbd/webapp/. Applications can be deployed right underneath these folders.
If you have any question or feedback lease post a comment. Happy CFML coding.
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Well done for putting together the first VMware image of Open BlueDragon. Hopefully it will spark interest from outside of the traditional CFML community and hosting companies too.
Thank you.
Yes, let’s give them no excuse anymore to use and provide CFML
This is great, are there any passwords required to run this?
There is a Read-Me file in the zip with all the information you will need.
I wonder if it is possible to setup a torrent for this. Not that I mind downloading 1.04 GB from your server. But it might be quicker and save you some bandwidth.
Sure, yes. I just haven’t had time to get into using a torrent.
Hi all
We just made a torrent of the image. So please start using the torrent file.
thank you
We just updated the VMWare image and also the torrent. Please re-download or seed the new torrent.
How do I get tomcat to serve my cfm pages from under an apache virtual server directory or is that not the right way. In other words how does one set up a virtual server running on port 80 if one has never used tomcat before??
@Julian
I wanted to answer here, but then thought that I had this question asked me many times, thus I made it a blog entry on its own. You can find it here:
http://blog.sixsigns.com/2008/05/18/serve-cfml-applications-under-apache-directory-with-tomcat/
Anyone know if this appliance will run under ESXi?
Thanks for putting it together!
Kev
When you create a image over at ElasticServer you can choose to which virtual environment you want to build the image. You can choose to deploy on VMWare, Parallels, XEN, etc.
In this regard, Razuna and Open BlueDragon runs on ESXi (as does this server
Nice – but neither link seems to be working today – both give me 404 errors
Hi
On the top of this page we made a note that we are not supporting the VMWare image anymore but instead use the fantastic service of ElasticServer. Please go over there to download a ready made OpenBD image for your virtual environment.
http://elasticserver.com/