[prog] PHP/MySQL/Apache on CD - can it be done?

[Lancelot Mak]

u can search for tonnes of livecd distro out there >.^
but just a little reminder u will get performance hit if ur baby is not 
small......
 >.^

Gareth Anderson wrote:

>Hi LinuxChix,
> Just a quick / possibly hard question and a brief warning, while it will
>likely have 0 effect on our mark this does relate to a group project...
> Is it possible to run a PHP/MySQL/Apache server off a CD?
> Previously I've being using:
> http://server.paehl.de/
> And I've also seen:
> http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html (much more marketing power there
>:P).
> The simple server I've being using has being fantastic, I can easily copy
>it accross to a new computer and MySQL re-configures its configuration files
>appropriately...(and apache is also fine)
> The lecturer has being asking if we could move our entire database to CD, I
>thought of burning the program I use to CD, but there would be 2 problems...
>Even if we did hardcode the setup for apache/MySQL on the CD, PHP sessions
>write to a "TMP" directory in the folder, and MySQL would likely need to
>write to the database (unless its happy to store it in memory with a silent
>error). So they would need to copy it to the hard disk and it *may* get
>messy....
> I found this project exists:
> http://www.phdcc.com/dynamic-cd/
> So it could be possible, the other thing I'm considering is having it so
>the CD can be copied to a hard disk and then they can start the MySQL
>service and Apache from there (except sometimes it seems MySQL can be a
>little tempremental :().
> Note: this doens't effect our actual submission, we have to hand in system
>and user documentation. This will be to inform the lecturer of whether it is
>actually possible or not and how he may wish to go about doing this....
> Regards,
>Gareth
> P.S. this email is somecsstudent at gmail.com, gmail allows outgoing mail to
>appear to come from another account if you own that account....
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