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Getting a Web Server to Run on a USB Drive
Recently we put a disaster preparedness kit that acted as a Drupal website on a usb thumb drive for the American Institute of Architects’ Communities by Design Initiative. This meant getting the entire Apache+php+MySQL stack running from the usb drive and essentially acting as a web server on a stick. Installing a web server is almost never as simple of a task as you'd expect no matter how often you do it, especially when it needs to be set it up on the fly from any computer. I’ll explain how we did it here to hopefully save other developers some time below. I also made a quick screencast of how Drupal on a stick is working. Here is a like to the video: s3.amazonaws.com/video.devseed/AIA_screencast.mov
Here is a link to read more on the blog: www.developmentseed.org/blog/2007/aug/03/getting-web-serv...
Getting a Web Server to Run on a USB Drive
Recently we put a disaster preparedness kit that acted as a Drupal website on a usb thumb drive for the American Institute of Architects’ Communities by Design Initiative. This meant getting the entire Apache+php+MySQL stack running from the usb drive and essentially acting as a web server on a stick. Installing a web server is almost never as simple of a task as you'd expect no matter how often you do it, especially when it needs to be set it up on the fly from any computer. I’ll explain how we did it here to hopefully save other developers some time below. I also made a quick screencast of how Drupal on a stick is working. Here is a like to the video: s3.amazonaws.com/video.devseed/AIA_screencast.mov
Here is a link to read more on the blog: www.developmentseed.org/blog/2007/aug/03/getting-web-serv...