Joomla! Jumpbox + Software Updater – a match made in heaven?


by Nick on 2008/08/30

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 Theme Creator May 10, 2009 at 9:08 pm

Joomla is a top notch CMS and this post is a perfect example why. Thank you for this information.

Sean May 8, 2009 at 2:28 pm

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

Hugo January 9, 2009 at 11:08 pm

Hi, I too would like to have more info on migrating a joomla site built using jumpbox to a live site. thanks in advance

Clark Venable September 10, 2008 at 3:38 pm

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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