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I have been battling with the mercury install on my own hosted server (not aws, rackspace or any of the other hosts currently supported).

I have full root access on a clean jaunty installation and I been trying to go through the instructions on http://groups.drupal.org/node/50408

Everything seems to fine up until:

'9) Start the BCFG2 server:

Wait until the bcfg2-server spins up - you know the server is ready when see "serve_forever() [start]".

sudo /etc/init.d/bcfg2-server start; tail -f /var/log/syslog'

I cannot get it to run, I just keep getting errors like:

Hello sir madam

Here, I have a configuration problem. I would like an installation type Mercury on my infrastructure. I:

• Mysql 5
  Drupal-6.16
  -Pressflow 6.16
  -PHP 5.2.13
  -Apache 2.2

But I can have properly configured, Apache and PHP together ... . That 's why I come to ask for help please. I often breaks the site where when I have messages like this "INTERNAL ERROR", "NOT FOUND" I'm sure you could help me.

My English is bad, sorry.

I understand that Mercury isn't configured for multi-site Drupal installs as of yet. I have heard this is because of issues with Apache-solr and memcache.

Question: Will these issues be resolved in the future, and if so, any predictions as to when Mercury will be compatible with multi-site and Aegir??

Question: What about multiple virtual hosts on a server? Can Mercury handle that? In other words, can a VPS host more than one Drupal virtual host (with separate Drupal codebases) and still use the power of Mercury?

I am trying out the mercury/pantheon install script on linode.com which is really cool because it sets everything up for you. Anyone else tried this? I was wondering what other's experiences were. The pantheon script is one of the most deployed scripts so a lot of people must be using this.

Hi

I've spent most of today oogling over videos and slideshows of what Mercury can do and how great it is/will be and I agree. I want to use it but does it want me?!

Hi, I've set up a vps at linode with the current Mercury StackScript...it was easy and just worked. Fabulous and I'm stoked to keep going.

But I could use some education on how to know if the stack is performing properly. I'm examining this because in the next week or two it's likely my site is going to be slashdotted if an article comes out about the company on a major media outlet. Naturally, I don't want the site to go down as it did last time on my shared hosting provider. Not much point in getting good press if the site can't stay up.

I just installed Mercury on Linode server, but Varnish doesn't cache pages on site I transferred there.

Steps I did during site transfer:
- copied modules and themes
- copied files
- imported database (didn't change settings.php as I used same database as in settings.php)
- run update.php
- enabled Varnish, Cookie cache bypass modules

Our site is sometimes getting DOS attack, on my previous LAMP installation I could install mod_evasive and it stopped all those attacks.

I installed mod_evasive on Mercury, but pages to attacking IP address are still served. It behaves like mod_evasive is completely ignored.

Anybody could put server down by using:
ab -k -n 1000 -c 50 http://domain/

I changed maximal number of servers in Apache config, so previous command doesn't crash server now, but it is still taking resources by generating pages.

How are you protecting your server against such attacks?

Thanks for the great efforts with Mercury! I used your excellent AMIs to set up a new EC2 Instance.

I installed my own Drupal Instance and MySQL DB, changed my php.ini settings and used solr to index my page.

Now I consider to switch to the productive system. At the moment I'm afraid to use this webserver because I know, that clicking the "Terminate" button in the Amazaon Management Console will completely destroy everything I've set up. Also a server failure will probably kill the server because I'm not able to reset th server.

Hopefully this can be a thread where relative ignorants like me can post "dumb" questions when setting up Mercury....

Just installed the Mercury 1.0 32bit AMI. On the start page is wants to know which installation profile I want: Mercury or Pressflow. Which do I choose?

Thanks,
Mike