BOA is an acronym of the high performance Barracuda Octopus Aegir LEMP stack.
This group is dedicated to share experiences on using Barracuda and Octopus installers for Aegir hosting system - installation, upgrades, tuning, best practices, tips and tricks etc.
Note however, that any bugs, feature and basic support requests should be submitted in the related project's issue queue and not posted on g.d.o.
Need advise to migrate existing sites to BOA
Hello,
I have an existing site (Drupal and phpBB3).
Each one use sub-folder in /var/www/ (/site for Drupal and /forum for phpBB3). File structure is like that:
-www
--forum
--site
----sites
-------all
-------default
-------secondsite.com
Another Drupal site (via multisiting) uses the same files and database.
There is a way to migrate all this to BOA?
Do I really need to install Octopus, or just Barracuda is enough?
There is some tips and warning that I must know?
Thanks!
BOA Platform Testing
Grace-
With BOA being more of a distribution that is managed through your company, is there a way for folks like myself to plug in, other than through normal use and open an issue, to the testing process in a way that allows you to vet out certain platform or situation specific scenarios?
Read moreNode.js with BOA
Has anyone gotten node.js to play nicely with BOA recently? I got this working about 6 months ago (BOA site with a separate node.js server connecting) but trying again now and seems to be some funky issue. I might be missing something small but as far as I can tell messages are not being sent to node.js OR they are being sent really slowly. There seems to be something catching on the server perhaps. Maybe I need to disable caching or something.
Just wanted to check if anyone else had any tips here. Thanks...
Subdomain Question
Hi,
I'm currently looking at getting some university sites I run swapped from default Drupal 7 on a LAMP stack to BOA. Our current file structure relies heavily on sub-folders, which I've only recently realized is not supported by Aegir.
The solution for us appears to be something like this:
*.ourdomain.com wildcard in DNS
*.ourdomain.com subdomains for each instructor site we'd create
So our sites would look something like this:
jones1.ourdomain.com
jones2.ourdomain.com
walker1.ourdomain.com
walker2.ourdomain.com
walker3.ourdomain.com
mobile sites on BOA
can anyone tell me if mobile sites will work well on BOA? on a dedicated server?
thank you.
drush plain confusing.
look, i just cannot understand this drush thing especially in relation to aegir. i have been stuck for months because i couldnt add modules or themes and i didnt want to look stupid. well, too late for that. i mean, i have looked at drush tuts on youtube and on the web, nothing seems to work. its like reading a book with pages missing. can somebody just tell me exactly what drush stuff on preloaded on BOA?
TurnkeyLinux or Ilk BOA Image
Has anyone thought of putting together a virtual image with BOA installed. I think this would remove some barriers and give BOA some more userfans. I know this would help me in my workflow, but I don't have chops to do it myself.
Reinstalling Barracuda aegir master install?
Hi,
Does anyone know how i can reinstall the barracuda aegir master host master? I deleted the platform when i tried uninstalling Barracuda when i thought of using open panel however when i did my research i decided to use barracuda aegir. Problem now is i cannot reinstall the aegir master instance, as i get a message saying "UPGRADE ERROR: Something (2) is wrong, we should stop now..", when i run the BARRACUDA.sh.txt script.
Does anyone know how i can reinstall the aegir master instance or the whole Barracuda aegir instance?
About 5s microcache for commerce platforms
Hi
We are working on a commerce site with the following caracteristics:
- We have 4 different roles (anomymous, standard, special and admins).
- We have a shopping cart block visible in all pages (except checkout). This is of course a dynamic block that varies per user, not per role.
- All users and roles can see this shopping cart block (including anonymous, as everybody can order to us).
- The content (markup) displayed in most pages vary per rol.
Aptitude and Apt-get command problems after barracuda install
Hi guys,
I was wondering if you can help. I've recently installed Barracuda on a fresh debian vps. Everything went well however, i can no longer use the aptitude and apt-get commands for anything e.g.. updating os, installing other packages. i keep getting this message-
"Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
Could not connect to host:port, connection timed out"
I've contacted my hosting company and they think its something to do with the Barracuda install. Any idea how i can resolve this problem? Thanking you in advance.
Kind Regards
Jasmine
Read moreSetting up custom client mail message
I'd like to know how to customize the email messages sent to clients when creating their octopus instances.
Thanks for the last response. Solved my issue.
Moving D7 site from Barracuda to another server - WSOD
Hello all!
I've use Barracuda/Octopus/Aegir system for one of my projects. Now I want to move to another server, without BOA.
After copying files, loading mysql dump I've gota problem. After clearing cache site went to WSOD. The same error appeared in any developer enviroment.
Any suggestions?
Tasks not running
Hello,
First of all, i have to thank you for this awsom script that saved me a lot of time. I have an issue with the tasks, none of them are running. This happening for all sites and all plateforms and whatever the tasks i try to run (verification, cloning, upgrade etc) I am running the latest Barracuda and Octopus version. Is there a way to know why this is happening ?
Thanks
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS support timeline
I been testing beta versions of 12.04 LTS w/ PHP 5.3 and Nginx (both from same sources as BOA), and stability / performance have been very good thus far. Post-release (end of April), is there any timeline for when BOA may support Precise Pangolin?
Symlink to my modules dump not working
Hello,
I'm running my BOA deployment on amazon's ec2 and it's been an experience. It works but i've got my eyes on it constantly to make sure it works as it should.
We've got issues with bandwidth over here in Nigeria so i prefer to have a dump of the possible modules that i may need for different projects being hosted on the Octopus instances.
My dump is stored on the ec2 default user home folder and i would like to symlink it to the sites/all/modules/"my_contribs" link/folder. I created a symlink but it didn't take. My site didn't read the modules folder. I changed the permissions to 755, chown'd it to root but still no success.
Read moreInternal Server Error
Internal Server Error
CDbConnection failed to open the DB connection.
An internal error occurred while the Web server was processing your request. Please contact the webmaster to report this problem.
Thank you.All the sites are running. A server reboot hasn't cleared the error.
I was in the process of installing a new platform and adding a new site to that platform when all the other sites started to redirect to install.php. Since I've had that error before, I verified every single site to clear that redirect. It's ok, there's only 5 or 6 sites.
Read moreinitial login URL not working on an Octopus OA install
I installed Barracuda on my Linode running 10.04 64bit with no errors, and used the one-time login URL to create the admin password with no problems. Then installed Octopus and this one-time login worked flawlessly as well. I then created an OA site with the default "admin" client. The one-time login URL takes me to the normal OA login dialog, not the reset password dialog I expect to see. So, I try to log into OA with my admin user and password but it doesn't work. I tried creating a new client with a different email address and reset the password, same problem.
Read morehotliinking
hello. what steps i should take to stop hotlinking with this script? i am reading about htaccess file, but i dont know how that works for stackscripts like BOA
thanks
Domain Module issues
I'm having some issues with the D7 Domain module. Not necessarily specific to BOA (maybe also evident in just plain old vanilla Aegir).
Firstly, when I create a new site in Aegir, it needs to be created in a D7 platform that does not have the Domain Module installed. I then migrate this site to a different platform that does have the Domain Module.
Secondly, The Expire Module doesn't seem to play nice with the Domain Module:
- Fatal error: Call to undefined function db_fetch_array() in /data/disk/octopusname/static/platformname/sites/all/modules/expire/expire.domain.inc on line 15
Starting Point installation profile
hello, would you consider adding starting point profile as an installation option?


