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Photo of Mark Quisquirin

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Installing Rock on a Linux Host

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Rock RMS is really a great application. Thank you!

Is there a possibility I can install Rock RMS into a linux hosting, Apache and MySQL? or it's only compatible with IIS and MSSQL? Thanks.

  • Photo of Daniel Hazelbaker

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    Hi Mark,

    Currently the simple answer is no. I've tried and it just isn't possible.

    Microsoft has recently released a version of SQL Server for Linux (early beta). While Rock does work with this SQL Server you still have to pay Microsoft for it and you still have to run the web application on IIS + Windows. There is a possibility in the future of making this possible, but it is probably a few years down the road at best, if it ever happens at all.

  • Photo of DJ Grick

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    MS only. Sorry. http://www.rockrms.com/Rock/Ask/Using/Questions/29

  • Photo of Mark Quisquirin

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    Thank you for the prompt answer, guys. :( That's sad. Anyway, I may try installing it using MS Azure. 



  • Photo of Greg Sylvain

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    I this still the case??? I assume you support Unix/Linux after 2 years?
  • Photo of Daniel Hazelbaker

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    Unfortunately it is still true. Microsoft has no plans to port the libraries we are using over to Linux. They have libraries for Linux with similar names, but they are actually very different products that are not compatible. 

  • Photo of Geoffrey May

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    I know Ubuntu is out but, has anyone tried installing this using XAMP on a standard windows PC? I'm looking at the most inexpensive way to implement this for my church. 

    • Daniel Hazelbaker

      Daniel Hazelbaker

      Nope, currently you need Windows IIS and SQL Server. SQL Server will probably always be a requirement. You can install SQL Server on a Linux host now (including Express, which is free and allows for up to 10GB of database space). But you still need an IIS web server, which requires full Windows.


      That said, since you are a church, you should be a registered non-profit. That being the case, you can get a $3,500 per year grant from Microsoft for Azure services. Which is more than enough for a small church to host Rock.