I love working on WordPress installations locally, mainly because of the speed. No lag, no overworked web hosts. Super-snappy, instant response.
I found quite a few ready-to-use solutions in the form of pre-built appliances, such as Bitnami WordPress running in vmWare under Windows. However:
- I can only run one WordPress installation
- The site url is something like http:/10.1.10.1/wordpress
What I'd like:
- Run multiple installations of WordPress, easy setup
- Have the appliance respond to a full domain name, such as www.mysite.com if I add an entry to my hosts file to resolve mysite.com to the appliance's IP.
My dream solution would be an appliance that has cPanel and Softaculous and pretty much behaves exactly like a shared hosting account somewhere. Without much Linux knowledge, i don't even know where to begin.
- Is such an appliance available for download anywhere? or,
- Is anyone willing to build one (for free, for money, for barter etc)?