Hello,
Quickstart is a pre-packaged Drupal Development Environment. It's a Virtualbox vm that can be downloaded through bittorrent.
I just added a script to install Aegir 0.4a7. If you download and import the vm, cd ~/quickstart, cvs update, there is an aegir-install-0.4a7.sh script that installs Aegir on Ubuntu 10.04.
Not just a shameless plug, I wanted to mention this because from watching presentations on Aegir, I've noticed that audience members have difficulty with installation. As 0.4 moves towards beta, I'd like to add Aegir into the downloadable image. Is that interesting to yall?
Quickstart is 1) a downloadable virtualbox image and 2) scripts to build that image
Right now, after install, I'm getting alot of warnings like http://drupal.org/node/761498
The only step that was difficult to script was "Initialize System" where it sets up cron.
My only feedback about the install docs was I had to add "sudo" on alot of commands for Ubuntu 10.04. This one in particular was non-trivial for me:
sudo su -s /bin/sh aegir -c "sh install.sh.txt"
Anyways, thanks for a great project, I'm looking forward to using it. If Quickstart can help Aegir by providing an easy to download working setup, I'd like to help.
Mike
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Hi there, This sounds
Hi there,
This sounds interesting - I think you will, or already have, run into the same obstacles as the fellow who wrote the Aegir stackscript for linode here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/53578
That is, the installation of Aegir cannot yet be fully automated, as you can only run the Hosting Setup 'initalize system' step after you have completed the tasks in the Hostmaster install profile wizard.
However, since Drupalcon the installation process has been refactored to allow Aegir to be installed completely from the commandline via the install.sh script. The next Aegir release will likely feature this new, simplified installation process, which will allow such applications as yours to automate installations.
Your PHP warnings are due to running PHP 5.3 which Aegir does throw some warnings about. I dare say php 5.3 may also bring similar warnings out of Drupal core itself, but I may be wrong
P.S your link to Quickstart is to this node itself in g.d.o - I think the link should be http://drupal.org/project/quickstart
WOW
This looks pretty nice! I'll have to give it a shot when I get some time.
Incidentally, does anyone know if there are images that I could use in Ubuntu Private Cloud or VirtualBox for the Project Mercury stuff here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/50408? Can AMI's be used in your own cloud environment?
Thanks