General discussions

Hi All,

I'd like to run a nightly site backup. I can achieve this on the command line with a command like
/usr/bin/drush -y --root='/var/www/aegir/path-to-drupal' 'provision' 'backup' 'example.com'

However, the backup doesn't show up in the Aegir admin for this site (not surprisingly I guess given that I did the backup from the command line).

The question is then - how can I achieve this? Backup on the command line or otherwise nightly and be able to restore from the Aegir admin. Is there a way to schedule backups in Aegir?

Just leaving a pointer to the UI update post i made on developmentseed.org for people wondering about progress on the roadmap.

Also, to keep up to date with development, start following @aegirproject on Twitter.

I'm writing about the current status of using Aegir to manage Drupal installs across multiple servers/VPSes.

I've followed the documentation to install Aegir 0.4 on one VPS (http://groups.drupal.org/node/25495), and confirmed that I could setup a new site on that VPS. That was a very easy process, so thanks to everyone who is supporting this system.

I know that Aegir states that Windows is not supported. However, has anyone has tried using it via Cygwin on a WAMP server? I suppose it would be much more likely to work if everything was in a Cygwin environment (i.e. Apache, PHP, and MySQL all running in Cygwin), but my setup uses native Windows installs of these.

Thought I'd ask before giving it a try....

While @ Drupalcamp Montreal I gave a talk on the Network Manager and how it's helping us manage our sites (see screencasts for usage). Right afterwards I (finally) was able to watch someone walk through everything that Aegir provides. I realize that Aegir is more hosting company in a box focused and my project is for things much smaller in scope (some overlap but totally different context of usage). I was wondering though if there might be a way of tying some of the functionality of the network manager into Aegir.

Hi

I tried to install aegir on ubuntu via the shell script. (On an ubuntu 9.04 VMWare image)
First question: in the wiki they mention to "su - aegir" to run the script instead of "sudo". But how can you do it when the aegir user isn't created yet (this is done in the script).

So i did sudo sh install.sh. Everything went fine, I tried to install the domain "aegir.local". After the installation, I'm not able to reach aegir.local. (firefox says address not found) What do I need to do?

Thanks for your help...

Running php as fastcgi has a reputation for using less server resources (specifically memory) that makes it attractive when memory starts to run low. Once the general setup of fastcgi is done enabling Drupal to run with it under Apache is as simple as adding 'ExecCGI' to the Options for a particular in either htaccess, the vhost file or elsewhere in the global Apache config.

When it comes to installing Aegir, simply adding ExecCGI to Aegir's default vhost during setup works fine.

Hi all,

I just wanted to share my experience migrating an existing site to Aegir, in the hope that others will find it illuminating and it will help them avoid some of the pitfalls I encountered.

Hey all,

I've been using Aegir since 4.0 alpha2 came out and have a couple issues with install profiles.

I first noticed came across this error when trying to create a quick install profile using http://www.lullabot.com/articles/5-step-drupal-distributions .

Now I get basically the same errors when using tattler http://tattlerapp.com/download . It verify's alright but bombs out on the install.

I tired renaming the tattler.profile file to tattler_install.profile (like suggested in the FAQ) and renamed the profile folder as well. (I also changed anything in the profile file that I though might have needed to be change) and it still does work.

I ran the install script for aegir and seems to be working fine, however I can't get any mail sent from the site. I have ubuntu which comes with exim4 installed, but not sure what configuration needs to be made. I won't be using this server for hosting email, just for emails sent out from the sites, as I have a gmail app for my domain name emails.

Thanks in advance!
Sammy