General discussions

It was my second time installing Aegir on Linode and I decided to make a script to make the whole process a little quicker. The script can be found on Linodes webpage here: http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view/?StackScriptID=203

I have only tested it on Debian 5.0. It handles most of the command line stuff except for setting up the cron process. I wasn't exactly sure what the "drush hosting_setup" did and wasn't sure if it needed to be run after completing the Drupal install.

Anyways, this may help some people in getting started with Aegir. Enjoy!

Hello to you all,

seems I am stucked in a loop-error and I cannot figure where's the catch.

I have successfully installed Aegir 0.4 alpha6 on a centos test server.
Immediatly after importing itself into the system, the site is not working, except the front-page.
Apparently, the errors are related to clean-urls.
For instance, I can access the page if manually build the URL as based on index.php?q=node/68, but cannot access it as /node/68

Any help is highly apreciated.

Stefaniu -gupi- Criste

Hello everyone. Awesome, awesome stuff here.

I am wondering if the following is possible using this platform, and looking for general ideas about the technical requirements :

1. A user registers for an account, as they would on any other Drupal website.
2. A sub site is created at username.website.com
3. The user can log in and manage their (and only their) website at username.website.com

I'm trying to apply a wildcard ssl certificate to my Aegir sites. I was able to follow these directions and get ssl working for one of my sites but trying to do so on a second site fails (which I expected). I tried to add in the VirtualDocumentRoot trick from this thread but that's not going to work since in Aegir the files in vhost.d also contain the database values for the respective sites, and also because I can't point traffic to the respective multisite folders in the same way -- (the equivalent would be VirtualDocumentRoot /var/aegir/platforms/drupal-6.15/%1/ , which doesn't work). There are probably other things stopping it from working too.

I try to figure out how to set up the sign-up form on webservers other then the Aegir host. I've done those steps so far:
- set up a second webserver for Aegir 0.4-alpha5 on Debian
- I have validated sites on it
- basic XML-RPC test (xmlrpc('http://aegir.example.com/xmlrpc.php', 'system.listMethods');) is working between the Aegir host and the second webserver

Do you have any hints how to render the sign-up form on sites running on the second webserver?

I want to know which provision module or code file creates the drushrc.php file while creating a new site in aegir system?

Thanks in advance.

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.

We had an issue with too many sessions which were stored in database for each user. The problem was that all sessions were keep and did not get cleared up. We managed to solve this problem.

At first we have tried to solve our problem by changing following parameters in settings.php (sessions.cache_expire & session.gc_maxlifetime set to 1800). Please see below:

@ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');
@ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime', 0);
@ini_set('magic_quotes_sybase', 0);
@ini_set('session.cache_expire', 1800);

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.

I've been using Aegir in my development VM which is now distributed to three other developers. While for us creates consistency when creating a new site/project I find the use of site_X for the database name causes some slowdown in work.

Is there an option to name the database when creating a new site?

Some times I need to go and look in a DB and having to SSH in and run "drush -l sitename status" or open the settings.php for that site to check the DB name is a distraction.

I'm aware that Aegir's intended purpose might not be that to which I'm using it in this case.