Install Magento 2 in just a few clicks

We are happy to announce that Magento 2 is now on the Bitnami Library!

Magento 2 is an open-source content management system for e-commerce web sites, and a major version built on a new and modern technology stack. This is a Beta version, currently under development, but already features notable improvements with performance, scalability and modularity.

The Bitnami Magento stack provides a one-click install solution for Magento 2, with compiling, configuring and all of its dependencies (third-party libraries, runtime, and database) taken care of so that it works out-of-the-box. The Bitnami Magento stack includes ready-to-run versions of Apache, MySQL, PHP and Magento.

Magento 2 is now ready to install in a few clicks with the Bitnami Magento installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), Virtual Machine images (VMs) and cloud images for Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure.

Want to learn more about the Bitnami Magento stack? Post your question in our community forum, and a member of the Bitnami team will help you.

New to the Bitnami Library: OpenCart ecommerce platform

We're excited to announce that OpenCart is now a part of the Bitnami Library!

OpenCart is a free open source ecommerce platform for online merchants. OpenCart provides a professional and reliable foundation from which to build a successful online store. In case you are not familiar with OpenCart, it's most important features are the following:

• Templatable: A built-in template system allows you to easily switch between different templates
• Multi-store: Multi-store abilities, which allow you to manage multiple stores from one admin interface
• Multiple Tax rates: Setup multiple tax zones so that the correct taxes are paid depending on which country the goods are going to be paid from or shipped to
• Payment gateways: Support for multiple gateways, by default
• Different Shipping methods
• Modules: A module based system that allows users to easily extend the functionality for their needs 
• SEO optimized: allowing pages to be indexed by all major search engines
• Sales reports: OpenCart currently offers 3 different types of reports

OpenCart is now ready to install in a few clicks with the Bitnami OpenCart installers (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X), Virtual Machine images (VMs) and Amazon EC2, Google and Windows Azure cloud images.

If you want to check out OpenCart, simply launch a free cloud demo server. Click the button below to run your own OpenCart instance for 1 hour, free of charge!

Would you like to see your favorite app in the Bitnami Library? Nominate it and then vote in our monthly contest!

OXID eShop now available in BitNami

We are happy to announce that OXID eShop is now available on BitNami library. OXID eShop is a flexible open source e-commerce software with a wide range of functionalities. Thanks to its modular, modern and state-of-the-art architecture, it can be modified, expanded and customized to individual requirements with the greatest of ease.

You can now download free, ready to run native installers for  Windows, OS X and Linux, virtual machines and Azure and Amazon EC2 cloud images.

You can now launch a free cloud demo server with the BitNami Cloud Launchpad by clicking the launch button below.

Marco Steinhäeuser, Community Guide at OXID eSales AG, has replied some questions about the OXID sShop project.

What is the goal of the OXID eShop application?

With OXID eShop, online merchants or integration agencies get a lean, modern and feature rich PHP software to build up a sustainable e-commerce business. OXID eShop is easy to customize: it uses the Smarty template engine for generating one's unique store front design. If you have to change or add some functionality for fitting OXID eShop into your business model, write an extension, put it into the modules folder and off you go. Thanks to the OOP (object oriented programming) architecture you'll be able to update your software and benefit from the latest innovations without loosing your changes.

Because OXID eShop is so simple to adapt there will be a short time to market -  OXID eShop is just e-commerce software for agencies with deadlines :-)

OXID eShop sample project

What are the main features of OXID eShop?

- High performance

- Scalability

- Good usability

- SEO friendliness (including rich snippets)

- B2B and B2C capability

- multilingual/multiple currencies

- Downloadable and virtual products 

- Integrated web2.0 components

- Private shopping

- Multi stores (only capable in Enterprise Edition)

Which projects or organizations are using OXID eShop currently?

By nature, usually merchants, online pure players as well as multichannel providers but also more and more manufacturer and vendors. We have very small mom-and-dad-shops as well as really huge players and everything between. Here's an extract of our bigger references:

Mercedes Benz Parts http://www.mbgtc.de/

Hellweg hardware store http://www.hellweg.de/

Schiesser http://www.schiesser.com/

German Post https://www.postofficeshop.de/

Mayersche book store http://www.mayersche.de/

Gravis Mac store http://www.gravis.de/

ADAC http://www.adac-shop.de/

Haribo https://onlineshop.haribo.com/

Reisenthel http://www.reisenthel.com

Carrera toys https://shop.carrera-toys.com

Carl Zeiss Jena https://taster.zeiss.de/

What are the benefits for OXID eShop to be available as BitNami stack installers, virtual machine and Amazon cloud images? 

Thanks to BitNami it is now possible for integrators, freelancers and ambitioned online merchants to easily get started, running their own development environment, building up staging machines and to test their modifications instead of working on their productive servers. This is very useful for module coders as well, as they can test extensions in different versions of OXID eShop. The most cool thing is that one can choose the environment by taste, no matter if preferring the Amazon cloud, a virtual machine or a LAMP, MAMP or WAMP stack.

We'd like to thank BitNami in the name of the whole community for the useful stacks!

We are glad OXID eShop is now part of BitNami. Would you like your favorite app to be part of BitNami? Make sure to suggest and vote for it in our contest!

OXID eShop: a new e-Commerce application to be added to the BitNami Library

We are happy to announce that OXID eShop, an e-Commerce application, will soon be added to the BitNami Library.

OXID eShop is a flexible open source software written in PHP and distributed under GPLv3. Thanks to its modular architecture, it can be modified, expanded and customized to individual requirements with the greatest of ease.

Native installers for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, virtual machines already configured with OXID eShop, Windows Azure cloud images and AWS cloud images will be available soon in BitNami.

OXID eShop is the last winner of our bi-weekly BitNami contest. If you want to see your favorite app in BitNami, you can submit it and vote for it. And don't forget to share it with others to get their votes!