UseBB Community

I have to produce a "snapshot" of existing site that is based on UseBB. Snapshots need to be put to CD (or DVD, didn't decide yet) so that webserver and UseBB run directly off CD. Webserver with UseBB and database server should run off CD automatically once CDROM is inserted into tray (of course if autorun is not disabled) on Win and MacOS.
It seems this special web server can be used for this:
http://www.stunnix.com/prod/aws/overviews.shtml
Has anybody tried to do something like that with UseBB?

Nope. But, if the CD contained everything UseBB needed to run ( Apache, PHP, MySQL ) then there shouldn't be any problems. Just sounds like a localhost webserver on a CD.

Impossible.

Even if the CD contains all the server software UseBB wants, how are you going to update the database inside the media?

UseBB needs to constantly read/write/modify/delete things from the database. A CD-ROM can't do this stuff, it's not rewritable.

Even if you use a CD-RW, you will need to incorporate a CD burning mechanism... with PHP!

Perhaps the software being linked to here loads the database inside the memory where it can be altered until the whole thing is restarted... same system as a Linux live CD.

Correct, but how can he run a working forum if the alterations are not permanent?

Maybe this is good for testing UseBB only.