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After a good discussion with others, I cam up with a roadmap of the SSL support in Aegir which is of course up for discussion, but I think it's pretty neat and allows for targeting the problem one chunk at a time. All patches welcome from here on!

Running Aegir 03-rc2 on Drupal 6.13 on Ubuntu 9.04 dedicated server
Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but after creating a new site with Aegir (say example.com), if I go to http://example.com/install.php by typing the address in my browser window, I get once more the installer profile options (default and hostmaster), so I guess I could screw an existing site...
The problem doesn't appear if I try to do the same thing with my platform's address (say aegir.example.com). If I type http://aegir.example.com/install.php I get the usual:
Drupal already installed

I have been harboring some growing concerns about the direction of the plugin manager integration proposals for Drupal core almost since their inception, but have not been able to make an informed opinion on the subject until I had properly reviewed the proposed system on a much deeper scale.

While my impressions of the project and the current implementation are fairly negative, I have aimed to frame my criticisms in a positive constructive manner because I believe that the goals of the project are worthwhile, and that for a large section of users this could be a very flexible and usable solution.

Unfortunately a lot of my concerns have been well founded, and I believe that the implementation of this system needs to be taken in a different direction for it to be able to succeed in its goals, while not negatively affecting projects like Aegir, Open Atrium and many other ‘serious developers’.

I had a couple of questions regarding Aegir:

1. Does Aegir support provisioning/management of sites where there is a database server and 2+ web servers serving the site?

2. Does Aegir support provisioning/managing Drupal multisites using the /path/to/root/sites/[site domain] scheme?

I have finally got around tackling git-cvsimport. After a little bit of tweaking around, I've been able to import the entire history of the various Aegir projects on Drupal.org in our git repositories. This will enable much easier collaboration and decentalised development.

There has been some talks in the issue tracker recently about implementing SSL support in Aegir. It's an exciting feature I've been thinking about for a while, and I'm at the point of trying to figure out how it would actually be implemented. I wrote up a first spec draft of what it would look like and I would like to seek wider discussion on the subject. How do you think this should be handled? How does your provider deal with SSL right now? Any specific issues we need to think about?

Hi everyone.

I'd like to propose some features for Aegir, which, to be honest, I'm not sure to be missing or if it was I who wasn't able to figure out how to use them. Forgive me if some or even all of these are already possible.

Here goes.

After having some problems with Drupal's File System and Caching settings (http://drupal.org/node/513054), I found that the variables were being overridden by the $conf array in settings.php that is created when making a new site in Aegir. After digging, I found that the Provision module creates a site's settings.php in _provision_drupal_create_settings_file().

I noticed that this function is hardcoded to take in the contents of provision_drupal_settings.tpl.php to create settings.php, and had a few questions about this.