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Ok so I noticed your Aegir build but also noticed joshk's comment here http://groups.drupal.org/node/27134#comment-92680 So if its really different am I to assume it doesn't include all the goodies in Mercury? Im guessing so based on the description over at getpantheon.com ... so I currently have a dedicated server in which i have been running aegir for some time now quite happily ... what I wanted to know is if any of you are running Aegir inside your Mercury goodness? Are there any reasons not to?

Hey guys,

First I have to say that this project looks pretty awesome for minimizing setup time on new drupal hosts. I can't wait to give it a go. Question though, is there somewhere I can download the server images? I'm particularly interested in giving them a spin on both vmware and xen. I saw the roll-your-own guide for project mercury which will allow me to get started without a server image, is there something similar for Vulcan?

Thanks.

Hello,

I've managed to authenticate. My first missteps were not understanding that ports 80 and 22 had to be open. I get the concept but for a non-sysadmin I assumed the EC2 defaults for Security Groups would be set to work automatically. I did finally manage to get to root using Terminal though once these ports were open.

Since I prefer a GUI I'm now trying to get past having to use Terminal on the Mac, but I can't really find a Mac SSH client that works with EC2's private keys. They all want me to authenticate with a username/pw.

My name is Greg Coit, sysadmin for Chapter 3 and I've been helping with Mercury development and testing.

We wanted a get a quick idea of how hard we could push mercury under more "real world" circumstances, so I combined siege and ab to generate a broad spectrum of hits. ab (short for apache benchmark and part of the apache2-utils package) allows you to generate a very large number of hits on one url, while siege (a perl script which comes in a self-titled debian/ubuntu package) lets you spread the hits across many urls, most of which won't be cached. This mixed-load is a much more nuanced and accurate way of looking at performance than peak throughput on a single url.

Hi,

In trying to take the Pantheon Aegir AMI for a spin, I hit my first obstacle with the database settings during the install.

This may be very obvious beginner mysql mistake but do I need to create the database, user and password before attempting the install?

I tried logging into mysql to create a database and set it up but realised that nowhere in the basic documentation does it mention the mysql password.
I tried the usual suspects , leaving it blank, drupal, mysql, root but none seem to work. I should mention I am trying to login as "root".

Hi,

I was wondering if there is one consolidated set of instructions anywhere that deals with how to set your own drupal based site over the base pressflow site launched over your EC2 mercury instance?

Basically I would like to know more about the following steps.These seem to be covered in the www.getpantheon.com intro video but the section is sped up and very difficult to try and dissect to understand what is going on.

I have successfully launched a small instance running the Mercury AMI. I am able to login to pressflow and have root access via SSH to the EC2 box.

I just installed the EC2 instance of pantheon Aegir. When looking through the mercury press flow stack, it would seem like once running, you would be able to hit the ip of the server and be able to see your drupal install there. I seem to get the error message "The connection has timed out". I logged into the server. apache seems to be running. I went through the README file and got up to renamed the vhost.d file to the elastic IP address as well as changing the servername variable to the IP address. However I still get Problem loading page when trying to get to the install page.