aegir

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.

I store all my updated themes and modules in my SVN repository.
How can I get Aegir to recognize my themes and modules from an SVN repository, so I can use them to migrate a new site?

Example of where a theme is stored:
svn+ssh://user@server/var/lib/svnroot/drupal/themes/drupal_6/production/basic

Example if where my themes are stored for a specific platform on my aegir server:
/var/aegir/drupal-6.16/sites/default/themes

EDIT: Changed theme path

Hi,

Want to assign separate IP for some sites on Aegir server. Is the procedure the same as with primary IP?

The Aegir project is proud to announce the eighth alpha of our 0.4 release cycle. Adrian and Neil have been working like crazy on the also crazy multi-server developpment branch(es) for a while and they are getting stable enough so that we can merge with the master development branch. Not stable enough, however, to not warrant a nice and routine release for you people to bundle the quiet but stable fixes we have been doing during that time. So here's the last release before we go on the multi-server development spree for good.

Hi,

Playing with Aegir - it is a great tool, but want to make it on steroids: use boost Boost and Cacherouter+APC as an user object cache for all sites. I will not touch Varnish for now.
What is the proper way to make config that works? Problem is, that I am changing "platforms" on Aegir rapidly and moving "sites" between them often, but haven't found the way to configure them globally.

Thank you for your thoughts.

Recently, I began experimenting with ec2 using the Mercury/pressflow ami-e14c1da4. I then installed Aegir on my own before I saw macrocosm's excellent tutorial on how to go about things here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/55393. I didn't attaching any EBS drives, for example.

Now that I've installed Aegir, and my handful of sites, on their various platforms, I would like to keep all that configuration, and make it easy to backup.

I'm new to Aegir and there are a couple things that are still unclear to me. Clearly Aegir will bring over modules in a specific site folder when you migrate a site, but what is the default handling of modules and themes in the "all" folder? I migrated a site from a drupal 6.15 platform to a 6.16 platform but it didn't touch the modules in the all folder.

It would be nice to be able to add a description when creating a backup. This would make it easy to identify the current state of a site at that point.
It would also be nice to have the opportunity to rename the file that gets created.

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.