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How to create new installation profiles in aegir system
We have installed aegir and in out of the box installation we have only one profile called "default". We need to create 3 separate installation profiles for 3 different types of sites. Is there any specific documentation or tips about how to create more profiles in aegir system ? Thanks in advance.
Read moreHow to change dbserver host after installing aegir
We have successfully installed aegir by point dbserver to the localhost. But we need to change the dbserver to another machine. I want to check if there is a way to do some minor configuration changes so that the existing installation will work with new db server.
I made following changes:
In /var/aegir/hostmaster-6.x-0.4-alpha3/drushrc.php file
Changed options['master_db'] = 'mysql://aegir:aegir@localhost'; to
$options['master_db'] = 'mysql://aegir:aegir@96.31.74.44';
Where 96.31.74.44 is the dbserver host.
Read moreProblem Verifying Aegir Site as Final Step of Installation on CentOS 5.4
Hi,
I'm excited to start using Aegir, and was about to give myself a pat on the back for getting it up and running, but it looks like the final installation tasks are thwarting my effort.
Namely, I can't get the Drush command:
php '/var/aegir/drush/drush.php' hosting dispatch --root='/var/aegir/drupal-6.15' --uri=http://aegir.earthtrendsdelivered.comTo do anything!
When I run with --debug, I get the following:
Drush bootstrap phase : _drush_bootstrap_drupal_root() [0.04 sec] [bootstrap]
SSL, Ubercart, anonymous users cannot add to cart
Set up SSL with this tutorial: http://groups.drupal.org/node/25038
Installed the certs as instructed here: http://www.positivessl.com/ssl-certificate-support/cert_installation/apa...
Read moreAegir Permissions Best practices
Fair warning: I'm a relative noob when it comes to server admin.
I have a server running ubuntu 9.04 and aegir. In order to do work on the server, I have to login with my own username and password over SSH, switch to the aegir user (who cannot login to the server), and then do what I need to. I'm working on a module right now, and it's very annoying to go through that entire rigamarole in order to do my work. I also have a guy working on a theme, and I had to change the theme owner to something other than aegir in order for him to be able to SFTP in and do his work.
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Server can't restart error...
This might not be MAMP specific, but I was wondering is anyone else has come across this issue. I've been able to install aegir locally using MAMP on my mac, however once installed and it tries to verify the aegir site it fails with with this error...
Read moreIssues with provision deploy?
I know this is a bit of a cross post from a bug I submitted for the provision module on d.o (http://drupal.org/node/670088), but I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this before. I used provision deply to create a production site from a dev site, only issue is not all of the images were showing up. I went into the db and manually got them all pointing to the production folder, however they all disappeared when I did that. Pointed back to dev, they are all there. For some reason it didn't like any folder but the dev folder. I checked permissions and it all looks right.
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Add sudoer apache command for aegir 0.4-alpha3
I think there is this step missing in the install documentation of Aegir 0.4-alpha3 (at least in the debian version)
sudo visudo
Add this line to the bottom:
aegir ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl
Read moreFTP folder for client?
I have an old site for a client that is still on d5 that I've just moved on to aegir. My client has image galleries that use the import function of the image module. I don't yet have any FTP setup for the client on aegir. I'm hosting on slicehost with ubuntu 9.04. What's the best way to set this up?
Thanks in advance!
Read moreUpdating Aegir to the latest Drupal
I have a functioning aegir install with 0.4-3alpha. I have been able to migrate several sites from 6.14 to 6.15 with no problems. Can I migrate Aegir to 6.15 using the migrate function?
Read morePLatform migration stuck in limbo...
I tried to upgrade about 6 site simultaniously to the latest acquia drupal by migrating the whole platform instead of one by one. It locked up my server and I had to do a hard reboot. The items are still in queue and they are all stuck at the step...
Running: /usr/bin/php /var/aegir/drush/drush.php --root='/var/aegir/platforms/acquia-drupal-1.2.19' 'provision' 'migrate' 'site.com' '/var/aegir/platforms/acquia-drupal-1.2.20' --backend
how can I stop this and manually do one by one??
Thanks!
Read moreFollowing latest UPGRADE.txt (from CVS) ruined my Aegir frontend
Hi!
I had a clean Aegir setup. A new Drupal version was released. I asked at #aegir for a step by step guide to migrate sites to a new platform. I was told: 1) Create new platform; 2) Migrate; 3) Check and relax.
Okay... I created a new platform and tried to run a batch update on the old one. I saw that modules and themes were missing. So copied sites/all/* from the old platform to the new one.
The migration was performed flawlessly, but Aegir's site did not migrate.
I was told that i should follow UPDATE.txt to migrate Aegir itself.
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Problems installing 0.4-alpha3
Hi all,
Around the time the 0.4alpha3 version was released or just after, a number of problems / bugs were encountered that were generally the responsibility of some tools that Aegir depends on: particularly Drush and Drush Make.
Read moreinstalling Aegir to a different directory than /var/aegir
Is there a way to install aegir to a different directory than /var/aegir?
follow up: if it is possible, what is the best way to moving an existing aegir installation to a new directory (I would rather not set up a new installation and migrate all the sites)
Read morehow to configure a user account for SSH use
Currently redacting
The following is to be done only once for a given user on a computer (but for each user you want to use)
SourceComputer> su userNameYouWantToConnectWith
SourceComputer> cd ~
Check that you have a .ssh directory with :
SourceComputer> ls -a
if it is not the case create it with :
SourceComputer> mkdir .ssh
check the permission on the directory that MUST be 0700 or force them with :
SourceComputer> chmod 0700 .ssh
then, go into the .ssh directory
Read moreSSL on Aegir sites
We attempted to get SSL to work with sites that we host under Aegir 0.3. Unfortunately this was ether very difficult or impossible with Aegir version 0.3. Sites would lose http vs https redirection location and was quite messy (we are using securepages to set pages that need encription).
In order to overcome this we installed Aegir 0.4, as it has experimental SSL support.
We are at the point where we do see that SSL is disabled for our site. We do not understand how we should enable this:
Read moreSSHLoginSetup
This document might seems long because of many explanations but the basis of ssh remote loging, password or passwordless is really simple, as explained in the Principles paragraph below
Purpose of this document :
Give some explanation and be a reference to setup SSH login on a server, or "password-less" login between server.
Each time I need to do this I dig the net to find some good and clear explanation, and often end up having to untangle confusing ones or dangerously working but overcomplicated one. More importantly most of those are unclear about the WHY we do things and I tend to think that not understanding is the worst thing you can do in "security".
New site language selection.
I updated to aegir 6.x-0.4-alpha3.
Since then I can't select a language any more when creating a site.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Read moreWorking provision to integrate with plesk(or generically any web hosting control panel with some api)
i dont want to reopen this issue of aegir installed alongside web hosting control panels but i have some potential work lined up with a clients migration to new servers and from another cms to drupal for running there cms hosting service.
as a touch of background they have got a shell script that works with plesk api's to be able to create plesk accounts with home directories which get symlinks in the drupal code base sites directory - eg /drupal/sites/domaina.com is actually a symlink to /sites/domaina.com which is the plesk accounts home folder in normal circumstances
Read morePossible queueing systems
So we've been talking seemingly forever about possible queuing system instead of our crappy "PHP/Vixie Cron based" one, but we have yet to document pro/cons of possible alternatives. Here are the goods (or the beginning of em).
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