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I tried to upgrade about 6 site simultaniously to the latest acquia drupal by migrating the whole platform instead of one by one. It locked up my server and I had to do a hard reboot. The items are still in queue and they are all stuck at the step...

Running: /usr/bin/php /var/aegir/drush/drush.php --root='/var/aegir/platforms/acquia-drupal-1.2.19' 'provision' 'migrate' 'site.com' '/var/aegir/platforms/acquia-drupal-1.2.20' --backend

how can I stop this and manually do one by one??

Thanks!

Hi!

I had a clean Aegir setup. A new Drupal version was released. I asked at #aegir for a step by step guide to migrate sites to a new platform. I was told: 1) Create new platform; 2) Migrate; 3) Check and relax.

Okay... I created a new platform and tried to run a batch update on the old one. I saw that modules and themes were missing. So copied sites/all/* from the old platform to the new one.

The migration was performed flawlessly, but Aegir's site did not migrate.

I was told that i should follow UPDATE.txt to migrate Aegir itself.

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)

We attempted to get SSL to work with sites that we host under Aegir 0.3. Unfortunately this was ether very difficult or impossible with Aegir version 0.3. Sites would lose http vs https redirection location and was quite messy (we are using securepages to set pages that need encription).

In order to overcome this we installed Aegir 0.4, as it has experimental SSL support.

We are at the point where we do see that SSL is disabled for our site. We do not understand how we should enable this:

I updated to aegir 6.x-0.4-alpha3.
Since then I can't select a language any more when creating a site.
Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Hi All,

I'd like to run a nightly site backup. I can achieve this on the command line with a command like
/usr/bin/drush -y --root='/var/www/aegir/path-to-drupal' 'provision' 'backup' 'example.com'

However, the backup doesn't show up in the Aegir admin for this site (not surprisingly I guess given that I did the backup from the command line).

The question is then - how can I achieve this? Backup on the command line or otherwise nightly and be able to restore from the Aegir admin. Is there a way to schedule backups in Aegir?

Just leaving a pointer to the UI update post i made on developmentseed.org for people wondering about progress on the roadmap.

Also, to keep up to date with development, start following @aegirproject on Twitter.

I'm writing about the current status of using Aegir to manage Drupal installs across multiple servers/VPSes.

I've followed the documentation to install Aegir 0.4 on one VPS (http://groups.drupal.org/node/25495), and confirmed that I could setup a new site on that VPS. That was a very easy process, so thanks to everyone who is supporting this system.

I know that Aegir states that Windows is not supported. However, has anyone has tried using it via Cygwin on a WAMP server? I suppose it would be much more likely to work if everything was in a Cygwin environment (i.e. Apache, PHP, and MySQL all running in Cygwin), but my setup uses native Windows installs of these.

Thought I'd ask before giving it a try....