By wallinf on

I'm researching the possibility to use Drupal with CD-based webserver for producing
CDs for Windows and Mac OS X - with this one:
http://www.stunnix.com/prod/aws/overviews.shtml
Has anybody tried doing this?
Will Drupal work with readonly database for website that can't be edited?

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newms commented

This has been done on a USB stick. See http://chapterthreellc.com/node/70 or http://www.google.com.jm/search?q=drupal+on+usb

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wallinf commented

Hello,

Thank you very much for the answer!
The first link is about booting ubuntu from USB and running Drupal there - is not an option for me, unfortunately.

The 2nd option is Windows-only solution, alas.. And it's only for writable media.

But I need CDROMs to be the media.. The product I've linked to seems to support CDs and Windows and Mac at the same time on the same CD, and seems to be the only one on the market that can do it. I expected that somebody here have already tried it.

Thanks again!

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newms commented

This post is a little old, but maybe it can help you.

http://drupal.org/node/8934

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spamjim commented

Would it be infinitely easier to rip a Drupal site to a static archive? There are a few apps that will do this, changing links to match the local archive.

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/downloader/fwoffline.html

Running a server from a CD-ROM assumes that you will not be occupying a web services port already in use on the user's computer. That's a risky assumption.

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wallinf commented

MSIE in XP and Vista don't run any JavaScript by default from document loaded using file:// protocol. So serving static snapshot of the site on CDs with a lot of JavaScript (DHTML or especially AJAX) is not an option.

The product I've linked to autodetects free ports for both apache and mysql and starts them on ports that are really free, so no worries here.

Anybody tried it?