Using Aegir and WordPress on one system?

Posted by transmitter on August 24, 2010 at 8:24am

Hi there,

I'm just wondering about this in the INSTALL.txt of provision:

the server must be reserved for
Aegir. Sharing the server with other control panels such as Cpanel, Plesk or
AlternC will very likely create problems and is not supported.

Can I run some WordPress installations on the same server (other vHosts of course)?

And I assume that wanting to have SysCP is not really wise in that case?

Thank you in advance
Bye, Transmitter

Comments

We are running aegir and wpmu

Posted by Reox on August 24, 2010 at 9:32am

We are running aegir and wpmu on the same vz and it works really fine.
our concept for wpmu is that we just put all domains by default to the wpmu host, if a domain is specified in another vhost (eg from aegir) its going there.
We used subdomains for every site and used cnames for the real domains. On WPMU we configured the real domains to be also accepted on the specific site and everything works.

Sounds great; could you save

Posted by pkej on March 7, 2011 at 4:47pm

Sounds great; could you save me some time by sending me the config, please?

sugestion

Posted by imadalin on August 24, 2010 at 9:36am

one sugestion to use aegir and wordpress:

wordpress has it's own multisites future in the core, aegir controls only virtualhosts that are configured in /var/aegir/config/ (default instalation).
u can do many more virtualhosts by adding your way. for example, create a /var/wpmu/ with /var/wpmu/config/vhosts.d/ and add this directory to apache conf as u did with aegir and create there any virtualhosts u need for wordpress...

a plugin for wordpress to control virtual hosts and restart apache would be great and as wp3 it is more popular i feel that we will soon see this kind of plugin, but until than manual config is not so bad.

but with other control panels i know, aegir will not work well. i'm not into cpanel, directadmin etc., but i have a virtualmin administrated server and i sure say that getting aegir into a virtualmin means that reports from virtualmin are not so good after it (bandwidth management specially), in my case, virtualmin makes lots of cron jobs, iptables rules for bandwith monitoring and management, apache rules for bandwidth, user quotas etc.

this days vps are so cheap that i think it is stupid to put everything into one server...

my setup: 1 vps for drupal sites, 1 vps for wordpress sites, X (1vps for every client) vps for magento shops, 1 vps for general hosting (Joomla goes here, i haven't found a solution similar to aegir for it) with virtualmin, 1 vps for scheduled backups with ftp from the other servers. and all of this costs starts from 50$ and they have powerfull configuration (512mb/1gb ram, not 128/256 as most cheap vps providers do).