How to try out Pantheon quickly and easily (on a linode slice anyway)

@borg000,

I ran your script and it did complete, which is great! (I see you fixed the error where Linode expects xvda instead of sda1)

However, I'm not sure exactly how to setup the SSH tunnel to the Hudson server. I assume this hasn't run because I don't see any Pressflow source in /var/www.

What am I missing?

on project install site I can enter project and profile, then when I click on build, it refreshes and empties the values without building...

For PuTTy users, keep in mind that the tunnel only remains active while the PuTTy terminal is open. If a script reboots the server, the original PuTTy session will end and the tunnel will terminate. Simply reload PuTTy to reactivate the tunnel and make Hudson accessible again.

My biggest question... how can we use the sites stored in the test and dev folders? So interesting!

WOw this was great. Thanks a ton, After trying on my local and virtual machines for a few days I was able to run mercury just now on a linode.. pretty exciting. I just wanted to +1 on the question above about the dev test live sites and how to manage them and the workflow we should take.. thanks a lot

if there is anyone here that knows where the multi-site doccumentation is of this build to get the dev/test/live site working, and which / what are the names of the database for each site I would really appreciate the info . Thanks!

ok great! I see that the variables are located in the etc/apache2/sites-available (& of course, sites-enabled) as mentioned by zoon_unit....

The question is how to activate/select the versiont of the site to be displayed? I have tried www.myhost.com/dev or www.myhost.com/test with no luck...

great work putting that together, thanks

Borg000, you are responsible for making my dreams come true. If I ever make money off of my project, expect a hefty donation. Thank you.

Question/ updaating site from an old core dev version of 6.19 to the newer bversion of 6.20 included with pantheon, should we set the =TRUE in settings.php and run update as we did on non pantheon installs in a normal drupal setup to get the core updated correctly?

What variables do I need to change where before running update.php ? thanks!

I Agree you have a great base! But I have hundreds of hours in an old drupal site I need to trnsfer and update to the core version you have provided. I really appreciate your hard work!

Here is my update plan---

1) Install everything on a fresh node per your instructions
2) Tar and upload all my site files and stuff to a test dir right next to the pantheon folder created by hudson
3) Extract the old site/all/modules files to the pantheon directories
4) do the same thing wihth the misc files/ stuff
5) extract the olddatabase.sql and import
6) how to update the core version from the backed up 6.19 dev to the newer 6.20 included core module files?

I guess just throw away old sit .htaccess file.

If anyone has any other ideas about something I have to do with hudson let me know... I have only used hudson for the install and dont know if there is something else that needed in hudson.

I think the back up service is great. I shut down my linode though before making a snapshot. I have not tried a live back up recovery......

I may be confused, but after installing on my linode, I can access the Hudson and ran the install_site, which created the 3 sites, test, live, dev in the /var/www/pantheon/ directory. When I tried to add another site, by running install_site again, it failed. Is this not the proper workflow for adding sites? Is the interface shown in the vimeo demo only a chapter 3 thing? I am seriously considering this as my dev platform if it can create sites and manage simular to Aegir, which I currently run a Barracuda version of.

Thanks.

receiving error while trying to install, running pantheon config script:

Running probe key_buffer_size
Probe key_buffer_size has result:
8
Server failure: The read operation timed out
Failed to download configuration from Bcfg2

Fatal error: local() encountered an error (return code 2) while executing '/usr/sbin/bcfg2 -vqed'

Aborting.
[pantheon@localhost] Executing task 'configure'
[localhost] run: apt-get -y update
[localhost] run: apt-get -y dist-upgrade
[localhost] run: git pull origin master
[localhost] run: /usr/sbin/bcfg2 -vqed
Recording test results
Performing Post build task...
Match found for : : True
Logical operation result is TRUE
Running script : python /opt/pantheon/fab/atlas_postback.py
[workspace] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson6089203865237820780.sh
+ python /opt/pantheon/fab/atlas_postback.py
WARNING: No build parameters found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/pantheon/fab/atlas_postback.py", line 40, in
main()
File "/opt/pantheon/fab/atlas_postback.py", line 11, in main
postback_atlas(options.check_changed_status)
File "/opt/pantheon/fab/atlas_postback.py", line 35, in postback_atlas
postback.postback(response)
File "/opt/pantheon/fab/pantheon/postback.py", line 30, in postback
'response_to': {'task_id': task_id}})
File "/opt/pantheon/fab/pantheon/postback.py", line 189, in _send_response
headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 910, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 947, in _send_request
self.endheaders()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 904, in endheaders
self._send_output()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 776, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 735, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 1112, in connect
self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ssl.py", line 350, in wrap_socket
suppress_ragged_eofs=suppress_ragged_eofs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ssl.py", line 113, in init
cert_reqs, ssl_version, ca_certs)
ssl.SSLError: [Errno 336265218] _ssl.c:337: error:140B0002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file:system lib
POST BUILD TASK : FAILURE
END OF POST BUILD TASK : 0
Finished: FAILURE

fails again, this time in install site on hudson with

tarted by user anonymous
[workspace] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson6449290817480469279.sh
+ cd /opt/pantheon/fab
+ /usr/bin/sudo -E /usr/bin/fab clean_workspace
[pantheon@localhost] Executing task 'clean_workspace'
[localhost] run: rm -f /var/lib/hudson/jobs/install_site/workspace/*

Done.
+ /usr/bin/sudo -E /usr/bin/fab install_site:project=pantheon,profile=pantheon

Fatal error: local() encountered an error (return code 128) while executing 'git clone --mirror git://gitorious.org/pantheon/6.git /var/git/projects/pantheon'

Aborting.
[pantheon@localhost] Executing task 'install_site'
[localhost] run: git clone --mirror git://gitorious.org/pantheon/6.git /var/git/projects/pantheon
Recording test results
Performing Post build task...
Match found for : : True
Logical operation result is TRUE
Running script : python /opt/pantheon/fab/atlas_postback.py
[workspace] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson264958303879390870.sh
+ python /opt/pantheon/fab/atlas_postback.py
POST BUILD TASK : SUCCESS
END OF POST BUILD TASK : 0
Match found for : : True
Logical operation result is TRUE
Running script : curl -X POST http://localhost:8090/safeRestart
[workspace] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson6569732945725523256.sh
+ curl -X POST http://localhost:8090/safeRestart
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
POST BUILD TASK : SUCCESS
END OF POST BUILD TASK : 1
Finished: FAILURE

1. Install fresh Ubuntu 10.04 64-Bit
2. echo "server.yourdomain.com" > /etc/hostname
3. hostname -F /etc/hostname
4. apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
5. apt-get install git-core
6. git clone git://github.com/pantheon-systems/mercury.git -b master /opt/pantheon
7. vim /opt/pantheon/fab/initialization.py
8. find "sda1" in initialization.py and change "sda1" to "xvda"
9. cd /opt/pantheon
10. python setup.py
11. when it fails: apt-get dist-upgrade --force-yes && rm /etc/pantheon -rf
12. python setup.py
13. ssh root@linode_ip -L 8090:localhost:8090
14. Browse http://localhost:8090 to connect Hudson
15. Execute pantheon_config build from Hudson
16. Execute install_site build (use 'pantheon' as project and profile)
17. Run drupal install.php from browser to install

What if you instaleed already and did not do these steps:

find "sda1" in initialization.py and change "sda1" to "xvda"
cd /opt/pantheon

is that a big problem? Should I back up my stuff, and reinstall pantheon for that specific step? What about the bcfg2 stuff... she would worry about that? I see it in pantheon, and I saw it on the 1.1 setup, however on 1.2 setup I sont seet it being used on linode. In fact I do not even know what it is.

HI, Im seeing this error :

line 21: SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file "/etc/pantheon/system.pem" failed - aborted
error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory

on the default setup found here. Any ideas why this can be?

I view this error through the systemn terminal through the Linode website.....Thanks for any info

When I try to install Boztek's Pantheon on Linode I keep getting this error.

Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks,
D

I want to test this on my local machine using a vbox and the Ubuntu 10.04 server Lucid Lynx. What is the best way to go?

@ boztek, Will your linode setup work?
@zoon_unit have you been trying this at several sites (rackspace, linode, amazon...) ?

Thanks guys for your guidance and posts here.