BOA

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BOA is an acronym of high performance Barracuda, Octopus and Aegir LEMP stack.

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BOA on a "standard" desktop environment

Posted by vcardoso on January 4, 2012 at 12:30am

This may come as a odd question, but can anyone see a reason for not using BOA on a standard graphical desktop environment?
My question comes from the, maybe wrong, idea that BOA is fitted for a "bare" development and/or production environment, i.e., minimal Debian install, no window manager, "Linode" kind of machine. From what I read on the group discussions BOA tends to be somewhat rigid on the setup options. So a desktop environment, with all the multitude of installed applications and constant updates, may ruin the system.
Does anyone has any thoughts on this?

Upgrade results in Bad Gateways and php-fpm won't start

Posted by Ari Gold on December 23, 2011 at 6:36pm

I just installed a new instance of BOA on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on Rackspace Cloud. Apticron informed me there were updates, so I ran BARRACUDA.sh.txt again interactively and results in Bad Gateways for all BOA sites and php-fpm won't start. Please advise. Thanks. Output from script:

Barracuda [Fri Dec 23 17:47:32 UTC 2011] ==> INFO: Clean up temp files in /var/opt/
Barracuda [Fri Dec 23 17:47:36 UTC 2011] ==> INFO: Run apt update, please wait...
Barracuda [Fri Dec 23 17:47:49 UTC 2011] ==> INFO: Install/upgrade required libraries and tools

Open Outreach - Drupal distribution for non-profits and grassroots organizations

Posted by niccolox on December 12, 2011 at 6:24am

can I suggest that the BOA scripts include the very excellent Open Outreach distribution...

Open Outreach is a Drupal distribution for grassroots organizations and non-profits
Drupal 7, Debut Features set, pre-configured, ready-to-go, Fusion/Skinr/Panels, Mix and Match, Kit Compliance Features
Http://drupal.org/project/openoutreach
Http://openoutreach.org

Sharing DB across 2 sub domains with Domain Access Module

Posted by cwittusen on December 10, 2011 at 7:46pm

Hi:
Is it easy or hard to have 2 domains, one primary and one sub domain and have them share the db across the sites? We have www.ceveryday.com and we are looking to have our classified section on classified.ceveryday.com. Is that possible and how in that case?

/Chris

Running svn

Posted by cwittusen on December 4, 2011 at 9:00pm

We are using svn repo for our site builds, however, I have not been able to run svn up without being root. When I su - octopus.ftp is wont allow me to run svn, it wont even let me to get to the right directory. What am I doing wrong?

SSL Proxy IP Logging?

Posted by Ari Gold on November 26, 2011 at 6:39pm

I'm using the recipe to use multiple IPs on my server for multiple SSL enabled sites:
https://github.com/omega8cc/nginx-for-drupal/blob/master/docs/SSL.txt

Is there a way to discover the visitor's ip when the visitor is using https?

All log entries in /var/log/nginx/access.log show the IP of my server in upstream extra_ip and not hte visitor's ip.

thanks

Best practice/plan for moving /data to another partition (Linode)

Posted by jim kirkpatrick on November 26, 2011 at 4:25pm

Hello all,

I want to split up my BOA install so that /data lives in another partition/disk within my Linode.

I see many approaches...:

... but I just wanted to double check there's nothing I've forgotten. My rough plan, minus commands, is...

How to? [edit 11/29] DNS records setup prior to BOA install

Posted by rhimes on November 25, 2011 at 1:21pm

I own "xxx".com and want to test BOA on it - w/ Chive etc. subdirectories - ordered a VPS with hostname of "test.xxx".com & got confirmation from VPS host of:

ServerName: "test.xxx".com
IP Address: "1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.5"

Currently, "xxx".com is hosted at "myhost".com - with full DNS control
Registrar is GoDaddy with limited DNS control - "Set Nameservers" & "Host Summary (add)" - I created hosts perhaps in error? (but haven't changed nameservers) of:
NS1.xxx.com = Host IP 1: 1.2.3.4

Open Deals

Posted by cwittusen on November 22, 2011 at 8:54pm

Does anyone know how to get Open Deals to work with the BOA setup?

Regards,
Chris

Overriding Barracuda and Octopus default install/upgrade settings.

Posted by AquaticDisorder on November 20, 2011 at 12:51pm
Last updated by AquaticDisorder on Thu, 2011-12-22 06:59

Once you have installed your Barracuda master instance and your first Octopus satellite instance,
you will find two new handy configuration files .barracuda.cnf and .octopus.cnf have been created in the root users home directory.

Based on the options that you configured in the install scripts first time around,
these configuration options will now come into play any time you run the Barracuda or Octopus scripts.

Redis eating all memory

Posted by yazzou on November 19, 2011 at 11:16pm

Hello,
I got redis-server constantly eating at least 50 to 60 % of CPU. I have barracuda and Octopus installed on this new server. Is there a workaround to make it consume less memory ?
Regards
Yaz

How to? Determine and fix "minimal" OS in VPS

Posted by rhimes on November 19, 2011 at 3:08pm

ordered/requested a VPS w/ "minimal" Debian (Squeeze) OS from my host - I've yet to find a definition of "minimal(fresh) OS", so I'm a bit confused
1 - how do I verify if that is what I got when logged in as root via PuTTY
2 - how do I correct it if it's not "minimal"

I'm NOT a sys-admin type, so kindly be specific - when I connect I get:
"root@test:~#" ----- "ls -al" returns:

total 20
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 16 23:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Nov 16 16:55 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 921 Nov 18 11:28 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 558 May 27 01:07 .bashrc

New Octopus.cnf

Posted by AquaticDisorder on November 19, 2011 at 12:33pm

I think the _USER variable being set in octopus.cnf was for me a source of confusion, it took me a while to realize why my OCTOPUS.sh settings weren't being honoured, don't get me wrong I know octopus.cnf is documented in CHANGELOG.txt, but I'm not sure it's best as a default setting because dealing with seperate satellite instances means re-configuring octopus.cnf and if forgotten attempts to install a new satellite instance go pear!
I have commented out _USER in octopus.cnf :)

No input file specified.

Posted by yazzou on November 17, 2011 at 8:43pm

Hi,
I am trying to run a php script in /var/www/ folder where a joomla website is already running fine there. However my littre php snippet when put in a file gives me an errorr 'No input file specified.' I really have no idea from where does this come. If it was a setting preventing some scripts to run in Barracuda, my joomla and wordpress sites won't be running as well...that is why i lost.
Any idea on how to fix that ?
Thanks

FileField Upload Issue

Posted by defiantbyte on November 16, 2011 at 2:02pm

I recently deployed a site to a BOA instance using a custom platform built using a custom platform w/ a Pressflow 6 core. Unfortunately I can't seem to get the FileField AJAX uploader to work. The uploads hit 100% and then respond with an HTTP error 0.

All of our tests show that if you click submit the file will upload successfully.
They AJAX uploader does actually upload the file, it just responds with an HTTP error 0 once the upload reaches 100%

BOA Best practice for 301 permanent redirects

Posted by tribe_of_dan on November 12, 2011 at 12:26pm

Is there a BOA specific best practice for handling 301 permanent redirects?

Should I go down the path of using a rewrite in my site config or would creating a URL alias in Global Redirect module handle it better?

NOTICE: Script execution completed with error: Use of undefined constant HTTP_X_REAL_IP - assumed 'HTTP_X_REAL_IP'

Posted by tribe_of_dan on November 9, 2011 at 4:28am

My watchdog is throwing this error everytime anything happens on my site.

Type wsod
Date Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 14:03
User Me
Location http://stg.website.com/admin/settings/performance
Referrer http://stg.website.com/node/2/edit
Message NOTICE: Script execution completed with error: Use of undefined constant HTTP_X_REAL_IP - assumed 'HTTP_X_REAL_IP'
Severity notice

(I have http://drupal.org/project/dtools enabled to see wsod notices in watchdog)

Help me choose - Linode 512 Tokyo or Serveraxis 512 SSD ?

Posted by Samsoe on November 2, 2011 at 5:43am

Hi, I want to try BOA and after take a small research I found 2 XEN VPS that suite my budget and both are reliable:

Linode 512 $20 (512 RAM, 20Gb HDD, 200Gb Bandwidth)
Serveraxis 512 $14 (512 RAM, 16Gb SSD, 500 Gb Bandwidth) CPU Spec 3/3 (??) IOPS 1k

blockquote>
Linode Pros:
- Linode has TOKYO DATACENTER which has very good latency ~120ms from my location and my target audience (same country).

Linode Cons:
- Not SSD

ServerAxis Pros:
- SSD drive (speedy for a database intensive app like Drupal, but Im not really sure how fast).

ServerAxis Cons:

Security - blocking Korean IP ranges

Posted by barwonhack on November 1, 2011 at 1:01am

Just wondering is there is any specific approach to (additional) server security for Debian Squeeze BOA?

I want to block specific country IP ranges (eg: Nth Korean origin of root SSH log in attempt).

Additionally, any specific advice on non-BOA Debian installation and configuration options?

In addition to blocking certain country IP ranges that simply are not within my target audience, I am also looking at installing fail2ban (http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) for more dynamic protection.

Too many redirects Errors

Posted by toddgeist on October 31, 2011 at 4:43am

Hello,

I have a site with SSL enabled. I have a valid certificate. I am running under the latest BOA installer. ON Ubuntu

I have been getting Too Many Redirect errors. I can't seem to find any pattern to them. They occur on Firefox and Safari, although less on Safari. They occur with Secure Pages turned on and with it Turned OFF. Sometimes it is the front page sometimes it is an internal page. Its driving me crazy.

Does anyone have any advice? Whats going on?

What can I do to track this down?

Thanks

Todd

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