Discussion

I built a platform using the drush make command. Ran drush make on the command line and not inside the new feature alpha13. (I am experimented mind you) I created a quick site on hostmaster platform. It wasn't configured with anything. I migrated it over to my newly created platform from drush make. None of the modules that the platform provides are available to choose from. I guess this is because they are under the profiles directory. So this sort of leaves you out of luck if you start a site on one platform and what to shift to another.

I am currently maintaining a few sites using aegir, and one of these sites is going to be passed to another group of developers on a new host in the near future. I would like to know how best to migrate the site to the new hosting environment (which will not be needing aegir, as it's a single site).

It is my understanding that aegir uses a different settings.php format than a standalone drupal site. I am willing to modify the file, however I am not sure how to do so or what other issues I need to be taking into account.

So I have been importing some sites into aegir, following http://groups.drupal.org/node/24992, and a small issue came up: all of the filepath entries in the files table are "sites/default/files/*". So after the step mv sites/default sites/mysite.com, the filepaths are now wrong.

I solved this by running a query UPDATE files SET filepath = REPLACE(filepath, 'sites/default', 'sites/mysite.com');, But I am curious how other people have dealt with this issue. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi everyone,

If you're like me, you struggle to keep up with GDO, and you often miss conversations on IRC due to timezone differences.

Good news: the Aegir Project now have mailing lists for those of you who prefer it!

Visit the list of mailing lists at http://lists.aegirproject.org.

We've a general 'aegir' list for support, discussion and announcements, as well as an 'aegir-dev' list for the core dev team and those of you digging under the hood or extending the system.

I'm working on a new site, and I want to use Aegir for it (I'm already using aegir for several live sites).

The domain name of the site when launched will be www.example.com
The domain name of the site whilst I am developing it will be dev.mydomin.com

When you create a platform, does it have to be on the same server as the aegir installation? We are trying to import a platform on a remote server to manage the sites on it using aegir, but when verifying the platform, aegir keeps saying

The directory /ebs/platforms/pressflow-6.15-R2811 does not contain a valid Drupal installation
Drupal sites directory /ebs/platforms/pressflow-6.15-R2811/sites is not writable by the provisioning script

I've got a custom install profile inside my platform folder (drupal/profiles/custom_profile/custom_profile.profile). When I go to the Aegir add site form I see a listing of install profiles from other platforms I have, including the Default drupal one, but I don't see my custom profile. Is there something special I need to do with my install profile to expose it to Aegir? I've re-verified the platform but this didn't help.

Thanks,
-Tim

Thought I would share some useful info (before I ask for support help) on a few lessons I have learned for a Aegir multi-server configuration I have running at Linode (IMO the only Linux VPS for hardcore Drupal deployment). My ultimate goal is to be able deploy Drupal sites in a HA environment without having a complicated mess of more than 5 servers and running services like clustered MySQL.
The main problems I encountered in getting a multi-server configuration to the point where I could deploy a site and migrate it around to different nodes were;