Hostmaster 2 0.1 Alpha 3 Released
I have just published the 0.1 Alpha 3 release of the Hostmaster 2 site instance management platform.
This is a much smaller bug fix release, which also includes some documentation we missed in the previous release. This release has also been tested with Drupal 5.8.
I have also updated the installation wizard walkthrough, and the user interface walkthrough is still current.
As with the previous release, the package releases can found from the release announcements on drupal.org (Hostmaster, Hosting and Provision), but I am also providing a single download containing the system and all it's requirements : Hostmaster 0.1 Alpha 3 complete download.
The complete download includes the relevant versions of Hostmaster, Provision, Hosting and copies of Drush 1.3, Cvs Deploy 1.1 and Views 1.6 checked out from CVS. It does not include Drupal itself.
Basic requirements for Hostmaster
- A system capable of running Drupal.
- VPS or better hosting. You will need root access. Shared hosting is not sufficient
- Unix based server. Windows will not work
To install Hostmaster :
- Download Drupal and extract it to a directory that is accessible to the web server
- Download the complete hostmaster tarball, and extract it into $document_root/profiles , which will add a 'hostmaster' directory, alongside the default.
- Copy the sites/default directory to sites/hostmaster.example.com, or whichever domain you want to run Hostmaster on. It is important to note that Hostmaster does not support being installed in the 'default' directory at this point, but will in the future.
- Configure an apache virtual host to resolve for the domain you are installing Hostmaster on.
- Install your new site, using the 'Hostmaster' install profile. After installation the Hosting wizard will help you to configure your server correctly.
Bugs Fixed:
275953 - Implement a global.inc to set up important $conf variables like the file path
275741 - Add documentation about httpd.conf requirement to wizard
278632 - tell the user at what time the changes will be effective (patch by anarcat)
275735 - Queue configuration is using the wrong property in display of total items.
275856 - Missing hook_perm in hosting_task.module, so users other than uid 1 can't create new tasks