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Greetings to all!

For those who dont want to waste time reading a bit of personal story, I have created an api site for aegir @ http://api.aegir.opendrops.com/

Now my little story:

I am amazed at the power of Aegir, having installed it on my dedi and played with it for over a month. When I began trying Aegir last year (alpha3 or 4, cant remember), I had to give up due to various reasons, one because of the complexity with aegir installation.

I have a new install profile that I use and want to move my old (acquia install profile) sites over to this new platform. I got on IRC and asked and got this answer:

edit your new install profile
and add 'old_short_name' = 'acquia'
or carbon, or whatever
that will allow you to migrate acquia sites to it

GREAT! except I dont know where to stick old_short_name' = 'acquia'. I tried putting it in hook_profile_details, re-verifying my platform, but I still couldn't migrate acquia sites to it.

I've created a new user in my Aegir 0.4 alpha 8 setup that has the "aegir client" role. That user can create new sites from an existing platform. But that user is unable to create backup tasks, delete tasks, disable/enable tasks, etc, for sites associated with their client/user. Attached is a screenshot showing the tasks that the client should be able to access, but is unable to.

I checked permissions and it looks like the "aegir client" role should be able to do all those things. Does anyone have thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks!

I would be very grateful for some help here, and would also be happy to offer my help in improving the documentation, but I simply don't know where to start.

I'm trying my best to work my way through the Aegir installation, but after getting very annoyed with it yesterday because it simply wouldn't work, I eventually found that the instructions I was following for 0.3 have been broken for some time. That alone might well explain why a system with so much potential hasn't seen such widespread adoption?

To compound matters further though, the documentation for 0.4 appears to completely omit the instructions on where to download the correct files, and where to place them:

http://git.aegirproject.org/?p=provision.git;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.txt;...

I accept I might have failed to notice these instructions elsewhere but, given that a Google search tends to deliver people either to this wiki page - http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system/documentation - or to the group homepage - http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system - and that none of these pages set out in simple terms what to do, and how to do it, I'm amazed that more people are not asking for help on this.

What am I missing (apart from a brain, I mean!)?

My dev environment differs from that of most Drupalees. I have a webserver running on Ubuntu but my IDE is on Windows 7 (Eclipse with Egit).

I understand Mig5's workflow as illustrated by Adrian Simmons.
I understand the difference between platforms and instances.
I have succesfully installed gitolite on my development server.
I have put my build/make files under git version control. I use these files to deploy platforms with Aegir.

Hi all,
I have been trying in vain to aegir working for many months on a cpanel server and only later found it's not doable. Now I have it working on my local machine and I am loving it so much. It's like firebug for firefox! Thank you guys!

The documentation for Aegir explains how to tar an existing site on a server other than the Aegir server, grab the database, and move all of this to the Aegir server. My situation is different. I have installed Aegir on a server that has existing running sites. Are the instructions the same, except I do not need to move the database? Must I move or copy the existing sites from /var/www/html to /var/aegir ? The documentation is not clear about where the tarred drupal site should be untarred to import into Aegir.

Thanks.