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I'm testing Drupal 8 as a custom app under /var/www using a custom vhost (this nginx_wp_include.conf example https://gist.github.com/omega8cc/1677835).

Recently php 5.4 was enforced for D8, so I'd like to set this version for the D8 vhost. How can we do that?

And by the way, is there a better vhost example than the wordpress one that I could use for a Drupal 8 install?

Adding modules and themes

Posted by ckosloff on March 6, 2014 at 2:07am

I am confused here because of conflicting instructions.
I have read Bill Powell's article on About.com and he recommends adding modules in /sites/all/modules, not on site/mysite/modules, and offers an explanation for that.
The email I got from BOA recommends to add modules to the platform, which seems more in line with BOA workflow.
There are still other recommendations, in the readme.txt for Drupal, that do mention the sites/mysite/modules approach, but that does not apply to Aegir.
So, where to load modules and themes?

Usage block not showing

Posted by primeworks on March 3, 2014 at 11:38pm

I can't see the footer status messages that tell me how much disk and database space my octopus instance is using. How do I activate it?

How to create sections

Posted by ckosloff on February 25, 2014 at 5:18pm

I cannot find a way to create sections in a site, like this one: groups.drupal.org.
This is not site aliasing like pulling up a home page from different aliases, that is an option in hostmaster.
Thank you.

Nginx just stopped

Posted by ddols on February 20, 2014 at 7:57pm

Hello,

I just received an email from a client that their site is down. I see that all sites are down, as I believe Nginx is no longer running. When I try to restart it I get the message:

nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" in /data/disk/o1/config/server_master/nginx/vhost.d/BOA.sh.txt:50

Pull repo from Git?

Posted by narcissus921 on February 17, 2014 at 9:10pm

I've been attempting to clone a repository from GitHub, but haven't quite figured out where I'm going wrong.

I have a .build file that references my .make file, found in my repository, though it cannot clone the repo.

I've tried using just the .make file to build from, and that seems to work, but I need it to use the .build file to reference the repo to pull the profile from.

Does anyone have a "best practices/how-to" on this?

The error message from the UI on adding a platform:

drupal downloaded from http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.26.tar.gz.

CDN integration issues

Posted by nitin.sareen.mca on February 8, 2014 at 11:45am

I'm using BOA 2.0.9 and trying to test CDN [Both cloudfront and cdn77]. After several trials unable to resolve two issues -

Getting a lot of 404s. Following might be the possibilities -
Noticing wrong mime types for all 404s
itok token being used but i've updated mimemails module to the latest where it is fixed

Did webmin knock-out Aegir?

Posted by ckosloff on February 4, 2014 at 4:57am

I am using a VPS with 4 IPs.
Only the first one was accessible so now I am trying to add the other 3.
I installed webmin which usually works on port 10000, but I could not reach it with its instructions, for example: xxx.cbvngh.com:10000.
Also I started building a site and it was accessible on the internet but now it is not.
I checked the firewall and my IP is not banned.
I can only access the VM with vncviewer, no ssh nor browser.
I am locked out again, and I don't know why this time.
I can restore from backup to a working state, but I would rather find out what is going wrong.

Nginx only listens on wildcard IP: Changing _HTTP_WILDCARD from YES to NO .. Makes no difference

Posted by cnergis on February 3, 2014 at 5:35pm

I have a pressing need to dedicate a couple of IP addresses on a server to be outside nginx control. But I cannot get nginx to stop grabbing all the IP addresses in a wildcard.

I tracked the setting responsible to ~root/.barracuda.cnf and changed, then downloaded BOA and applied upgrades to both barracuda and octopus .. even after several restarts of nginx, I still have the same situation. It is claiming all IP addresses on the server.

This is creating a major issue for me right now ..

Hope someone can point me to how I can resolve it quickly.

Thanks in advance ...

Locked out

Posted by ckosloff on January 31, 2014 at 2:12am

I am really trying to follow docs, namely the email sent to me, with the result that I got locked out.
I tried to add modules to an enabled platform (Commerce) and typed in filezilla the provided password after some failures I got email that I was locked out.
Cannot even ssh or launch vncviewer to see what is going on in my own server. So what are next steps?
I will ask lots of beginner questions here as I get my head around all this.
Before somebody tells me RTFM, I am doing precisely that.

Is this normal?

Posted by ckosloff on January 29, 2014 at 4:33pm

I just moved to another VPS, installed Debian 7 and loaded BOA successfully, then updated because got this message:

apticron report [Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:20:17 -0500]

apticron has detected that some packages need upgrading on:

The following packages are currently pending an upgrade:

/usr/sbin/apticron: 285: /usr/sbin/apticron: Syntax error: Bad fd number

After update another message:

Time: Wed Jan 29 11:19:14 2014 -0500

Verify on custom platform "can't change permissions to 751"

Posted by leelive on January 28, 2014 at 6:57pm

While logged in as o1.ftp (SSH) I've added a custom platform under /static using drush make. I then changed permissions to 775 for /static/myplatform and 775 -R for /static/myplatform/sites per https://omega8.cc/how-to-add-custom-platform-properly-140. I then added this platform in the Aegir control panel leaving the makefile path blank per Matt Petrowsky's video.

I created a site and all seems okay. However when I run "Verify" the log shows, "...chmod to 751 failed on /data/disk/o1/static/myplatform/sites" and for /sites/all.

Syntax error in barracuda

Posted by ckosloff on January 14, 2014 at 4:04am

I received system email prompting to update Debian with urgency=high.
Instructions were:

You can perform the upgrade by issuing the command:
barracuda up-stable system

as root on webo1.wigzilla.com

apticron

However, such syntax throws error.

webo1:~# barracuda up-stable system
/usr/local/bin/barracuda: line 386: syntax error near unexpected token )' /usr/local/bin/barracuda: line 386: up-legacy) cmmand="$1"'

How to uninstall unwanted platforms

Posted by ckosloff on January 12, 2014 at 5:22am

I just installed BOA, but since I did not know what it would do I installed lots of unwanted platforms, e.g. Drupal 6, which is now locked as hostmaster.
I could of course redeploy Linode and re-install the whole thing and re-select what I want, but I would like to know if there is a better way to do this.

Persistent error on install

Posted by ckosloff on January 11, 2014 at 3:47am

I am running a vanilla Debian 7 install on Linode.
BOA install continuously fails on this error.

Your MY_HOSTN and/or _MY_FRONT doesn't match your _MY_OWNIP,
or your hostname is not set properly yet.
* Please make sure that below command returns your FQDN hostname "www.wigzilla.com":
$ uname -n
* Your server has to have already working FQDN hostname matching your IP address.
This means you _have to configure the dns for your server IP/hostname before

IRC channel

Posted by ckosloff on January 10, 2014 at 2:15pm

IRC channel terminated, should be removed from group page.
Sorry, disregard, it is just that Mibbit is not allowed in, shows terminated notice.
Can be accessed with real IRC client.

Install a new copy of BOA

Posted by cwittusen on January 6, 2014 at 6:33pm

Hi:
I'm trying to install another copy of BOA but I believe my old install is interfering with my install. How can I install a new copy of BOA in a different location that would then allow me to copy the old sites to the new install?

Regards,
Chris

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