I’ve been playing with Jumpbox – very cool technology. Just download the “jumpbox” (the free one is available for Joomla! 1.5 – which is great). This is a copy of a complete web-app in a self contained virtual appliance – both of the virtualization technologies I use – VMware and Xen – are supported, as well as a few others. I’ve been playing with the VMware version.
I did have a minor problem with Firefox 3.0 being picky about the self signed cert on port 3000 (used for initial configuration) – no big deal, but something that could throw off a newbie.
After installing, I immediately installed my Intellispire Add Software component:
http://www.intellispire.com/web/Joomla/download.html
Fifteen minutes later I had a fully configured Joomla install with Forum, Community, decent template, and all the required components to have a real site.
This is the best way I have found to try out new components, do testing, and just play with Joomla! without having to have a server. And with the Updater, I can actually demo building out a site on real-time. Then it’s a simple backup / restore to deploy to a live site …
Can’t get much easier than this! Check them out:
JumpBox
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Joomla is a top notch CMS and this post is a perfect example why. Thank you for this information.
Check out the JoomlaPack extension for an easy way to migrate data out of the JumpBox and into a traditional shared hosting instance:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/1606/details
Sean
Hi, I too would like to have more info on migrating a joomla site built using jumpbox to a live site. thanks in advance
Kimbro Staken and I were just corresponding about this recently. I, too, grabbed the Joomla 1.5 JumpBox and used it to start to work up new site. Now I need one of two things:
1. an affordable way to run the JumpBox at a hosting service
or
2. an easy way to move my modification done in a JumpBox to a live Joomla site….
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