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Courses Plus Student 3,905 PointsFollowing the course with Bitnami
Are there any restrictions to a self hosted Bitnami Wordpress stack that would prevent me from following along the course (How to Make a WordPress Blog) wtih out paying the money for hosting\domain?
Thanks!
2 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsYou should be good, downloading VMs from TurnKey Linux (or Bitami) is by far the best way to learn (or try out) new platforms.
So far as I'm concerned there is a laundry list of advantages to developing in a VM, having a VM for learning Linux command line, one for learning PHP, one for Wordpress experimentation, one for learning Ruby on Rails.
If you want to check out Turn Key Linux: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/wordpress