aegir

We have talked a few times about how Aegir could be used to manage itself and while some work was definitely done in that direction, there's still some work remaining to attain the holy grail of self-provisionning, that is having aegir capable of installing, upgrading, migrating or propagating itself. This is the current state of affairs.

I have a requirement where as soon as user creates one site using aegir hosting tool, system should automatically create 2 subdomains of that site. For instance, if some user creates a site called example.com in the aegir hosting tool UI, system should automatically create 2 sites uk.example.com and us.exmaple.com. All three sites example.com, us.example.com and uk.example.com should all share one DB with many tables (about 190 tables) being shared across all 3 sites and few tables (around 50) being independent through table prefixing option.

There are many ways to use Nginx. With Aegir and Boost compatible configuration, without all that Aegir and Boost related stuff, with subdirectory install, compatible with Purl and Spaces, and many different modules, where some specific rewrites are required.

It is always handy to have something tested and working as default setup, but there is also room for improvements, different setups, and it seems GitHub fork feature would be useful to create and maintain different configuration examples for wider audience.

We have installed aegir and in out of the box installation we have only one profile called "default". We need to create 3 separate installation profiles for 3 different types of sites. Is there any specific documentation or tips about how to create more profiles in aegir system ? Thanks in advance.

We have successfully installed aegir by point dbserver to the localhost. But we need to change the dbserver to another machine. I want to check if there is a way to do some minor configuration changes so that the existing installation will work with new db server.

I made following changes:

In /var/aegir/hostmaster-6.x-0.4-alpha3/drushrc.php file

Changed options['master_db'] = 'mysql://aegir:aegir@localhost'; to
$options['master_db'] = 'mysql://aegir:aegir@96.31.74.44';

Where 96.31.74.44 is the dbserver host.

Hi,

I'm excited to start using Aegir, and was about to give myself a pat on the back for getting it up and running, but it looks like the final installation tasks are thwarting my effort.

Namely, I can't get the Drush command:

To do anything!

When I run with --debug, I get the following:


Drush bootstrap phase : _drush_bootstrap_drupal_root() [0.04 sec] [bootstrap]

This might not be MAMP specific, but I was wondering is anyone else has come across this issue. I've been able to install aegir locally using MAMP on my mac, however once installed and it tries to verify the aegir site it fails with with this error...

I have an old site for a client that is still on d5 that I've just moved on to aegir. My client has image galleries that use the import function of the image module. I don't yet have any FTP setup for the client on aegir. I'm hosting on slicehost with ubuntu 9.04. What's the best way to set this up?

Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to install aegir to a different directory than /var/aegir?

follow up: if it is possible, what is the best way to moving an existing aegir installation to a new directory (I would rather not set up a new installation and migrate all the sites)

i dont want to reopen this issue of aegir installed alongside web hosting control panels but i have some potential work lined up with a clients migration to new servers and from another cms to drupal for running there cms hosting service.

as a touch of background they have got a shell script that works with plesk api's to be able to create plesk accounts with home directories which get symlinks in the drupal code base sites directory - eg /drupal/sites/domaina.com is actually a symlink to /sites/domaina.com which is the plesk accounts home folder in normal circumstances