Mercury

Mercury is an open-source effort to create reusable, common, stable, kickass stacks for running Drupal. It began as an effort targeted to Amazon EC2, but really wants to have its stacks run anywhere/everywhere Drupal is found.

The current best place to get code from is this GitHub repository:

https://github.com/boztek/mercury

The ideas here have also spawned Pantheon Systems, which provides commercial service, but this group is about free and open-source DIY server configuration for Drupal.

Considering Pantheon

Posted by cpc on April 27, 2010 at 6:43pm

I'm considering Mercury/Pantheon for an existing Drupal 6 site that I'd like to port over to Drupal 7. It's a real estate site with about 30,000 listings, but should be expanding to over 200,000 throughout this year.

New to Mercury...

Posted by qbnflaco on April 23, 2010 at 1:24pm

I just signed up with linode and used the stackscript for mercury. I booted up and logged in as root. I pinged the IP address of my VPS and after a bit got this...

Page Could Not Be Loaded

We're very sorry, but the page could not be loaded properly. This should be fixed very soon, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Debug Info:

Status: 503
Response: Service Unavailable
XID: 1255939562

Varnish

It still seems to be loading endlessly. I checked the settings.php file and everything seems to be fine there. Anyone ran into this before?

Thanks!

Is Pantheon to host only one drupal application?

Posted by bibstha1 on April 23, 2010 at 6:22am

The concept on including reverse proxy seems very interesting. However it allows one to use it only one application at a time.

Has anyone used this setup to multiple websites using virtualhosts?

Configuring Varnish to make it work with language negociation

Posted by toemaz on April 19, 2010 at 10:17am

Drupal comes with a language negociation (D6: admin/settings/language/configure). One of the options is "path prefix with language fallback": If a suitable prefix is not identified, the display language is determined by the user's language preferences from the My Account page, or by the browser's language settings. The latter means it will look at Accept-Language in the http request and return the preferred language. I would like this still to work, together with Varnish cache.

Upgrading from Mercury 1.0 (or Mercury 1.1-Beta) to Mercury 1.1

Posted by Greg Coit on April 17, 2010 at 1:04am
Last updated by adrianrf@gmail.com on Tue, 2010-06-29 06:33

We know some folks are going want to upgrade their mercury servers from 1.0 or 1.1-Beta to 1.1 once it's released, so we've written instructions on how to do this.

DrupalCon SF Mercury BOF

Posted by Greg Coit on April 15, 2010 at 12:20am

Start:

2010-04-21 11:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles

Organizers:

gregcoit-gdo

Event type:

DrupalCon

We've got an AV-ready room reserved (room 206) for Wednesday morning of DrupalCon SF from 11 AM to 12 noon. I'm looking to this as an opportunity to meet Mercury/Pantheon users, answer questions, and get feedback. Is there a specific topic/question you want to discuss? Post it here and I'll make sure it gets covered.

Mercury 1.1-Beta released

Posted by Greg Coit on April 14, 2010 at 10:33pm

We are happy to announce a beta release of Mercury 1.1. This is a beta release and should not be used for production servers. However, we're hoping that folks will try the new servers and point out any bugs they find and/or make any suggestions they have.

How to use the new templating system in Mercury 1.1

Posted by Greg Coit on April 14, 2010 at 10:17pm

These instructions have been updated and moved to http://groups.drupal.org/node/70258

Uninstalling Varnish

Posted by ManyNancy on April 13, 2010 at 5:56pm

Varnish keeps on crashing on me, and since I have authcache and only one server, I'd rather not deal with it.

I removed it by apt-get remove varnish, and setting apache to port 80. Are there any other steps that I need to take to set the server to be like no varnish? What about the memory allocated to varnish in the bootscript, is that someone I'll need to clawback?

Thanks.

DrupalCon Aegir BOF Scheduled: Mon 4/19 2:45-3:45

Posted by bwood on April 13, 2010 at 3:49pm

We have a room with AV on Mon 4/19 2:45-3:45 Room 206. Please reply here if you have thoughts about the agenda.

If needed I can talk about the UC Berkeley use case anddo an informal demo of stuff I've been working on with Puppet and my Aegir 0.3 "helper" shell scripts like move_db.php and clone_site.sh...

But I'd love it if others propose agenda/discussion items. This is my first DrupalCON BOF so not sure how much organization is needed. Help me out! :-)

http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/birds-feather

Migrating existing DB to new Mercury server.

Posted by WhenInRome on April 13, 2010 at 3:21am

So we've got our new mercury server all setup and we've been playing around with migrating our db over. We figured we couldn't just export the current DB and simply just move it over to the mercury server because mercury has it's own profile with it's own settings etc, but we tried anyways...and that didn't work obviously..site didn't load at all

So my next move is to export my current DB with all of the settings checked in phpmyadmin :

Add DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION
Add IF NOT EXISTS
Add AUTO_INCREMENT value
Enclose table and field names with backquotes

Step By Step Setup Tutorial For Pantheon Mercury AMI's

Posted by lloydpearsoniv on April 12, 2010 at 3:39am

I'm kind of new to "the cloud". I recently setup an AWS account after seeing the seminars/video form the "Do It With Drupal" event that took place in New Orleans.

Preview of Mercury 1.1

Posted by Greg Coit on April 9, 2010 at 5:57pm

I want to give everyone a preview of what we're working on for Mercury 1.1:

Solr Builds?

Posted by justintime on March 31, 2010 at 6:56pm

Looks like the nightly Solr builds at http://people.apache.org/builds/lucene/solr/nightly/ haven't worked since 2/27. What is the recommended version of Solr to use ATM for use with Mercury?

Short Term Pantheon Roadmap

Posted by joshk on March 30, 2010 at 12:40am

I felt like it might be a good idea to post some news about upcoming PANTHEON development for those of you who are curious where the project is headed next. We've been a bit quiet over the past few weeks as we prepare for the commercial release of our Mercury on-demand product (live by DrupalCon or bust!) and evaluate the next steps for the platform. This post should give you some insight into what we're tracking and where we are headed.

Your feedback on any of these points is humbly requested.

Short Term

Mercury Multisite?

Posted by WhenInRome on March 30, 2010 at 12:06am

I understand that Mercury doesn't officially support multisite yet. But has anyone configured it for use with multisite? I have a brand new server I'm setting up and want to put mercury on it, but I have 10+ sites! Any input/advice is appreciated.

Thanks,

All these caching modules are quite confusing

Posted by ericfaucon on March 25, 2010 at 2:19pm

Hi all !

I've set up a Mercury install some while ago on a Rackspace environment, and as we're about to launch our website, I decided to do a little upgrade.
I realized that Mercury 1.0 was released, so I decided to hang up with memcache.
I followed the instructions on http://groups.drupal.org/node/25425 and began to install memcache.
Then, I got on http://www.lullabot.com/articles/how_install_memcache_debian_etch to get everything for memcache installed on my Ubuntu 9.04.

So, basically, I had libevent + memcached + PECL memcache + Drupal memcache configured

Getting Started Questions

Posted by discursives on March 20, 2010 at 3:01pm

Is the public AMI id ami-119c7d78 complete (current), as in, a totally pre-rolled "Mercury," deployment?
Is there another AMI to watch? Where is that sort of info 'kept'?
Any instructions on what to worry about when migrating a Drupal site (6.16) into Mercury?

Ubuntu Karmic added to Mercury 1.0

Posted by Greg Coit on March 20, 2010 at 1:51am

Files for Ubuntu Karmic have been added to Mercury 1.0. Please consider these beta and unstable until we've hada a chance to test them some more. Also please post any problems/questions that arise here.

Thanks!

Greg

Updated "Drupal in the Cloud" Presentation Slides from SxSw Interactive 2010

Posted by joshk on March 15, 2010 at 9:25pm

I've posted updated slides from my Drupal in the Cloud presntation here at SxSw interactive. Check 'em out!

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