BOA

Just a heads up .. seeking feedback from others

As far as I am aware BOA does not do any auto-updates of important packages .. Yet, two different BOA based hosting servers seemed to suffer updates to the csf/lfd toolkits at around the same date (the 8th and 9th of February) ...

These two hosts are based on two different service providers and thus different networks and had absolutely no relationship with each other .. not even via the odd script ..

I'd appreciate a few informed comments on fighting spam users as unobtrusively as possible.

Presently I'm trying the http://www.stopforumspam.com/ service using the http://drupal.org/project/spambot module.

There is reference made to correctly configuring my server correctly (http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4910) for use with cloudflare.

I note the Cloudflare module (http://drupal.org/project/cloudflare) and wonder if this is required for Barracuda/Octopus sites.

a very interesting new sandbox project relevant to BOA developers looking for a tool-chain from local dev to stage to prod on BOA systems

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Ariadne: Vagrant-based Drupal Development Toolchain

Hi, we are using BOA as a development environment and it has helped in many many tasks we used to do automatically while developing Drupal sites.

But one downside we see it's the DB access. We use Chive that is installed by default, it's easy and fast, but each developer (different octopus user) has to login to Chive with different credentials every time he wants to check out a different web site DB.

Would be nice if there is an easy way to display ALL the DBs for all sites that are managed under an octopus user.

Maybe it's already working like that and I'm missing something

For the first time since I installed BOA a month ago I am logged in as o1.ftp user and have cd'd to the only site in the commerce 7.17 platform, and I did a "drush mup" - after 10 minutes on the command line I get a response: "Checked available update data for 632 projects"! About 8 hours later, nothing has happened on the command line with the ssh connection still open - no confirmation of any updates taking place ....

Is anything wrong here?

With the surprise announcement on Thursday, Dec 6, 2012 that Google Apps would immediately stop offering the Free Standard Edition of Google Apps, I'm wondering what other people who have been relying on this are planning to do instead.

I work with many very small, micro businesses and non-profits. For them the Free Standard Edition of Google App was perfect and paying $50 per yr per user is pretty much out of the question.

Running VirtualBox 4.2.4 on a MacOS Lion and the BOA instance has 2 GB of RAM and Barracuda 2.04.

I have created a VM with Barracuda setup. I followed these guidelines:

http://larsolesen.dk/node/358

I managed to mount the static directory for my users like this in the Vagrantfile.


config.vm.share_folder "platforms-o1", "/data/disk/o1/static", "~/workspace/platforms-o1", :extra => "dmode=755,fmode=755,gid=100,uid=110"
config.vm.share_folder "platforms-o2", "/data/disk/o2/static", "~/workspace/platforms-o2", :extra => "dmode=755,fmode=755,gid=100,uid=112"

I would like to know what do we have to install and configure on remote web-servers to use the Pack module on BOA ?

I would like to have the possibility of load-balancing each site I want with BOA.

Thanks.

I am looking for information about how to properly use webmin to setup a new domain in a BOA server - a domain that will not be a drupal site at all.

This is for those of us too poor to have two separate servers and who have to provide for a few non-drupal non-aegir sites on their server.

I know that Webmin can be used to setup a new dns zone for the new non-drupal domain. After that I know that I either manually add a vhost file in nginx or, suppossedly I should be able to use Webmin for this, since webmin is suppossed to support nginx. My questions are as follows: