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

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tribe_of_dan's picture

Open Atrium Platform - notifications don't seem to work out of the box

First a heads up, this issue may have nothing to do with BOA but I wanted to check if anyone else was experienceing issues.

I have a site running of Atrium 1.0 P.001 on BOA and I can't seem to select Notifications. I've raised an issue with OA but there has been little response and it doesn't seem to be a common issue.

https://community.openatrium.com/issues/node/3397

Or please see: http://screencast.com/t/Ui3eFzfbV

Emails get sent when I add people to the site so the site is sending emails fine. I just can't select people to Notify at all when I make an edit or create a node.

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cwittusen's picture

Webmin

How can I find out how to access webmin that I installed during my BARRACUDA install? I have tried webmin.mydomain.com, webmin.mydomain.com:12321, webmin.mydomain.com:10000 (https) but nothing.

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yazzou's picture

domain.com not redirected to www.domain.com

Hello,
I have tried to make a redirection from domain.com to www.domain.com but still i am getting 404 error when i type domain.com
On aegir web interface i have added for the concerned site in the Domain aliases field :
domain.com

I checked the Redirect domain aliases to main domain.

I have checked nginx config file for the vhost, here is what i got :

server {
listen xx.xx.xx.xx:80;
server_name essai.domain.com;
rewrite ^ $scheme://www.domain.com$request_uri? permanent;
}
server {
listen xx.xx.xx.xx:80;
server_name domain.com;

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Working with and overriding BOA cache settings

Cache Overview

BOA provides several layers of robust automated caching for Drupal sites by default.

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  • Redis Cache: An in-memory key-value based storage engine. BOA allocates 64M of memory to this cache by default. (Verify if true for all systems)
  • Boost: Popular Drupal module for file based caching. It stores a full page load as a static file.
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    lolmaus's picture

    MySQL root access denied. Where do i change the password?

    Hi!

    I'm trying to use the stable Octopus installation script, but it fails.

    At first, it produces some "sed: -e expression #1, char 21: unterminated `s' command" errors and continues.

    But then it said that it can't connect to MySQL using the public IP address. It also complained about a non-existing directory:
    AegirSetupC.sh.txt: line 1766: cd: /data/disk/octo/aegir/distro/001/sites/octo.barra.example.com: No such file or directory

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    cwittusen's picture

    Managing sites

    So I'm new to BOA but I have to say it is a fantastic thing and thank you to everyone and especially Grace (Omega8.cc) for this great thing.

    So as a newbie, I have installed Barracuda and now Octopus, which one should I be using to setup my different domains, is it via the Barracuda management site or is it via Octopus management site? It would seem as if I should be using Octopus since that's where I have all the different platforms such as drupal 6, 7, pressflow, etc., but I wanted to confirm that.

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    yazzou's picture

    https on aegir plateform

    Hello,
    I have installed baracuda and octopus on my debian box. Everything is running very fine. I want to allow my visitors to create their own website throught the aegir plateform created with octopus. However i do not have a valid ssl certificate and everytime somebody visits the aegir plateform their is a warning concerning my certificate. How do i disable the HTTPS redirection without breaking everything with nginx.

    Thanks in advance.

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    socialtalker's picture

    octopus only installed 5 platforms. platform installing problems.

    Hello. yesterday i installed octopus. i had installed octopus about 5 times now. however this time only 6 platforms installed, so i have been trying to learn how to install the rest of the platforms. epic fail is the perfect expression. i even tried to get the other platform by doing an upgrade. nothing. there seems to be pages of instruction missing, does everybody understand this stuff except me?

    okay i found this tutorial:
    http://groups.drupal.org/node/24991

    so i put this in
    mkdir /var/aegir/platforms/prosepoint
    cd /var/aegir/platforms/prosepoint

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    AquaticDisorder's picture

    BOA Linode Install Experience

    I am pleased to say I have successfully installed Barracuda and a satellite Octopus instance on my linode.
    I have also managed to upgrade the two all using the scripts kindly provided by omega8cc.
    During the install process I received a couple of errors but nothing show stopping.

    /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation: 371: find_mysql_client: not found

    Which led me to:
    http://drupal.org/node/1213050 "This is not our bug, it is MariaDB bug probably, but cosmetic only, since it doesn't break anything, AFAIK."

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    erlendoos's picture

    Why does drupal 7 require BOA to work?

    I try Baracuda and Octopus because I have trouble installing drupal 7 at the current version of aegir (1.2)
    What does octopus solve to make it work? Should this not also be possible without it?

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    erlendoos's picture

    Trouble getting BOA at a Virtualbox

    Hi,

    I have some troubles getting Aegir working using BOA to install it at a virtualbox machine.
    Is there some kind of stable version of the installation script, and how can I get such a version. Git is not very straight forward in that.

    What I did (Friday 30th July) was get the HEAD version of barracuda and installed it at a ubuntu 10 LTS at a virtualbox machine

    top of CHANGELOG.txt:

    Stable Edition 1.0-boa-T-8.9

    Date: in head, not yet released.

    Installs Aegir HEAD 1.2.1

    I disabled the DNS check (would not install otherwise)

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    geofftech's picture

    Why does Octopus "require" its own domain?

    Hi,

    Correct me if I am wrong, but the BOA installation requires two domains (one can be a sub-domain of the other) to get a working system. One for Barracuda and then at least one satellite for Octopus. In this case, the first (Barracuda) domain is never actually used - only the satellite instance.

    Is it possible to install a single domain that contains both Barracuda and Octopus - and still have the ability to update the platforms??

    Any opinions welcome....

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    socialtalker's picture

    giving up on BOA

    hello, after months of trying out B-O-Aegir, I have to give up on it. i am reallly down about it. heck i am depressed about it. Its an absolutely beautiful script. aegir is just a fantastic concept. but it keeps crashing, 502 bad gateway, upgrade and reboot, its up, then 502 bad gateway, upgrade and reboot, its up.... then 502 bad gateway, upgrade and reboot, its up....... 502 bad gateway. i posted it to issues, but I dont know how to fix it. and this is with nothing on the sites, no traffic. I just dont know how to fix it and i have got to start producing real sites.

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    kepford's picture

    Virtualbox/Vagrant VM HTTPS

    I've been testing Barracuda out for a few days and that includes getting it running locally on my Mac with Virtualbox and Vagrant.

    My goal is to set up Aegir in the VM so that I can access it with the host's browser with a url like barracuda.vm. I was able to install Aegir with the Barracuda script. I can go to aegis.barracuda.vm and I see the Aegir login page. The problem is that I can't log in because that requires an https connection.

    Output of curl -v 'https://aegir.barracuda.vm/'

    * About to connect() to aegir.barracuda.vm port 443 (#0)
    
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    tribe_of_dan's picture

    A little help setting up for SSH keys and connecting via SSL/TLS connections for FTPS

    This has been a little confusing to me. I've been doing transfers via SFTP instead. Can somebody run me through how to set this all up properly?

    We recommend using SSH keys instead of password.

    It is highly recommended you use only SSL/TLS connections for FTPS.
    Compatible FTP-SSL/TLS clients are listed here:

    http://omega8.cc/dev/ftp-tls.txt

    I use FileZilla...

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    blockquote>
    * FileZilla (Windows, OSX, Linux)
    URL: http://filezilla-project.org/

    SSL/TLS works. In the "Site details" dialog box, pick "FTP over TLS

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    Send backups to Amazon S3 bucket

    Both Barracuda and Octopus have a wonderful backup feature that allows you to keep regular scheduled backups and restore from them with the click of a button.
    Here is a quick guide to follow if you would like to send the backups to your Amazon s3 bucket.

    This feature is enabled from your Barracuda / Octopus admin panel under Hosting -> Features -> Experimental
    After setting up your backup preferences you will can find the site backups in your filesystem /data/disk/MYUSERNAME/backups

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    BOA Wiki

    Drupal.org docs

    please don't update these docs anymore and move all available documentation to drupal.org: http://drupal.org/node/1741624

    The BOA project has moved to Github!

    The project with its build, documentation and issues are on github now

    https://github.com/omega8cc/boa

    Much of the information here is outdated although there are some valuable information but be careful when doing anything under the hood.

    On January, 25th 2015. the current BOA is 2.3.8

    What is BOA?

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    tribe_of_dan's picture

    Is there a central place for Documentation of the BOA project?

    I hope this isn't a silly question but is there a central place for Documentation of the BOA project? Or there plans for it going forward.

    I realise that we have:

    http://drupal.org/project/barracuda
    http://drupal.org/project/issues/barracuda
    http://drupal.org/project/octopus
    http://drupal.org/project/issues/octopus
    http://community.aegirproject.org/
    http://groups.drupal.org/boa
    http://omega8.cc/ (library section)

    Then there are the text files.

    http://drupalcode.org/project/barracuda.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/docs/INSTAL...

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    wickwood's picture

    Linux Package Updates - When should we do them? Or How should we do them?

    A couple of weeks ago I temporarily took down my BOA because I ran aptitude full-upgrade to run all the package updates on my Linode Ubuntu VPS.

    So my question is, when should we do these? Or more precisely how should we do these updates without taking down our BOA systems?

    Thanks for your help in advance!
    Steve

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    niccolox's picture

    Quickstart for BOA ? Local to Production Pipeline

    am interested in creating a BOA Drupal Quickstart http://drupal.org/project/quickstart

    i.e. a ready-to-go VirtualBox VM with BOA pre-installed

    I want to be able to do local testing, dev and staging on BOA and then upload to Omega8cc hosting. at present I do Slicehost Aegir LAMP hosting because I can't get the BOA scripts to work locally... and I could get the Quickstart Drupal LAMP environment to run standard LAMP Aegir

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