I want to start out by stating that I am new to Fedora, so bear with me . I work doing web design and a myriad of other things at my job. Previously, I used Bitnami with Wordpress on my Windows 10 machine to mess around with some ideas on my local machine, at home. I haven’t used any form of Linux for about 10 years and recently tried to install Bitnami on Fedora, but it is not supported.
Long story short, is there method for doing this in Fedora? I just want to have the ability to use my localhost and WordPress to mess around with some ideas for the websites prior to going into work and doing the actual creation, or potentially just creating my own website.
Try out Sandstorm! While I don’t use it as much any more (see below), it is a great tool, and probably the closest thing to a direct alternative to Bitnami.
Podman! Depending on what you want exactly and your background technical prowess, this may not be right for you. However, I thought I’d mention it anyway as I love containers so much, and they generally make tasks like the one you are trying to do trivial. Find out more here if you are at all interested: Docker
I think I am going to install Sandstorm a little later tonight.
However, I am very interested in this container stuff. Are containers like Software as a Service (SaaS) where I can use a certain piece of software without having to download it locally on my system? I instead would use a container from a separate server that contains the software that I am intending to use. Once I quit using it there are no remnants of it on my device other than whatever I have saved which can be called upon when I utilize the container again? Or are my thoughts on containers completely wrong lol?
You are somewhat right and kind of wrong. I encourage you to research podman and docker. Guides for both are pretty much interchangeable, but podman is generally preferred on Fedora systems.
Thanks a lot, I had the same question. Just looked at the Fedora Magazine article you suggest. Seems old (2017), but hopefully it still works. I had previously used the fedora 39 guides. After searching all over the place (instead of starting with Fedora Magazine, duh) I get the impression that many of us newbies have the same question. Perhaps it’d be a good idea to put this on the list of commonly asked questions (which is a great sticky post for us newbies!).
That Fedora Magazine article is a little old, but I think it should still work.
FWIW, the Fedora Magazine team has since switched to using Podman to test its WordPress theme locally (Fedora Magazine is itself a WordPress blog). You (and others) might find some inspiration about how to configure that by cloning the repo that Fedora Magazine uses and examining those scripts. The following sequence of commands should work to launch a local copy of the Fedora Magazine WordPress blog in a Podman container on your local system if you want to try it (without all the articles; it’s just the theme).
$ dnf install -y git-core podman netavark
$ git clone https://pagure.io/fedoramagazine-theme.git
$ cd fedoramagazine-theme
$ ./build.sh && ./preview.sh
...
wordpress is listening on http://localhost:5055/; press ctrl-c to stop
See the README and the shell scripts for more info on how it works.
HTH,
gb
Edit: I’m not sure why it was necessary to explicitly specify netavark on my system when I tested this just now. It might have been a dependency error on my local system. You might not need to include that when installing Podman (I don’t think you normally would).
. I work doing web design and a myriad of other things at my job. Previously, I used Bitnami with Wordpress on my Windows 10 machine to mess around with some ideas on my local machine, at home. I haven’t used any form of Linux for about 10 years and recently tried to install Bitnami on Fedora, but it is not supported.