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Old 05-11-2007, 02:25 PM
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Default Possible to run vbulletin off a cd?

One of my clients wants to run his vBulletin off a CD. He has an academic-oriented forum and wants to be able to show it around on computers without an internet connection. Of course, the CD version would not be live. Is this something that's possible with the current version of the software?
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Old 05-11-2007, 02:27 PM
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Off the top of my head, you could probably customize a Knoppix CD to do just that.
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Old 05-11-2007, 03:26 PM
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I've run vB on a thumb drive. Not sure about a CD, though; mySQL probably tries to open its DBs with write access...

Any case, I just installed appserv on the thumb drive, then installed vB. It should be noted that you may have to do something special to make it run on other computers (install services).
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Old 05-11-2007, 04:59 PM
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Hmm .. Maybe running it off a drive instead of a cd is a better idea then. I don't see my client having an issue with that, it would actually be easier for him I think.
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You could not run it off a cd, mysql needs to be able to write to files, as does apache.
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That completely slipped my mind.
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Old 05-15-2007, 01:25 AM
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You could not run it off a cd, mysql needs to be able to write to files, as does apache.
Hm, good point.

Thinking further, you could run the server side apps (apache, mysql) off of the CD, and use a USB memory stick for the database, vB files, etc. It'd be a bit of a chore to setup, but I think as long as everything stayed pointing at /dev/memorystick (or whatever) it could be doable.
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