The Web Developer Appliance

[VMTN_Admin]

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/134

A virtual machine designed for testing and fine tuning your web-based applications in a safe environment

[sypkensj]

Root password is not included in the documentation.

Cannot alter apache2.conf, perl is not enabled.

[RDPetruska]

Root password is not included in the documentation.

That's because it's right on the download page...

"Primary account

Username: webdev

Password: webdev"

[sypkensj]

That username and password does not have root rights. When logged on as webdev, I couldn't do anything that required root rights.

[jpop]

ubuntu does not have root account. you have to do everything with the normal user account using sudo. this is ubuntu!!

[prabhakar]

In ubuntu, you CANNOT logon as root. The user 'webdev' has to sudo in order to become root. So if you want to do superuser things on an ubuntu system do this:

sudo whatever_command_you_want_to_run.

enter the password.

or

sudo -s -H

enter the password. You will be logged in as root

[myeager]

You can log in as root as Ubuntu. You simply need to set a password for root first. Logged in as your other user, type 'sudo passwd root' and enter the password (twice) for the root user. You can from then on login as root.

[prabhakar]

This is an Ubuntu system. The password for root is already set. It is the same password as the password for the initial user in Ubuntu. That's why you can sudo. You dont need to set it again !!!!

[myeager]

If the root password is set, a person can login as root (via console, not GUI). You can still enable root to login via the GUI if enabled in the security / session settings.

[jlertle]

I was not able to access pages from a remote machine.

I fixed it by changing:

In:

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

[aingel]

Thanks for the tip jlertle. that worked very nice on me.

Now, I want to access my files on this VM from a windows remote host using WinSCP. How can I do that? Anyone have a clue?

[ittle_holly]

Unfortunately the torrent file is not working, is there also any 'normal' download available somewhere/somehow?

Because it's really hard to find any Appliance with php4 and mysql4 installed.

So this Web Developer Appliance seems to be perfect.

thanks in advance for any help

[asddsaasd]

How to share files with this appliance? Grandma's LAMP has easy SAMBA shares set up ...

[asddsaasd]

Also, php CLI is failing:

"bash: php: command not found"

[asdfasdfasdfas5]

Looks like I downloaded a 1GB clunker. A little bit of support please?

[MarkusR83815]

mysql username/password?

I need to access the database outside this VM, does this work out of the box this way?

any help would be appreciated... Any donation boxes?

-Markus

[MarkusR83815]

ok, not sure why but I can access mysql now on the localhost.

Funny thing is I cannot type an @ character. hard to give privileges if you can't type @. Thoughts? Doesn't work anywhere. gedit, gnome terminal!!!!

Help!!!!!