General discussions

There has been some talks in the issue tracker recently about implementing SSL support in Aegir. It's an exciting feature I've been thinking about for a while, and I'm at the point of trying to figure out how it would actually be implemented. I wrote up a first spec draft of what it would look like and I would like to seek wider discussion on the subject. How do you think this should be handled? How does your provider deal with SSL right now? Any specific issues we need to think about?

Aegir is so totally freaking awesome!!
New sites in a matter of seconds. Maintaining modules profiles updates .. everything is so much smoother & streamlined!
I have been watching you geniuses build this bad mama jama for months and couldnt be happier with the results!

I can hardly contain myself ... I have more than a dozen sites on my todo list and Aegir is taking a huge bite out of the workload!

Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!!
^_^

As announced a long time ago, I have remove the old 0.1 install instructions from the tabs above that were confusing a lot of people. A lot has changed since 0.1, especially in the way Aegir is installed and the proper way to figure out how to install Aegir is to read

After having some problems with Drupal's File System and Caching settings (http://drupal.org/node/513054), I found that the variables were being overridden by the $conf array in settings.php that is created when making a new site in Aegir. After digging, I found that the Provision module creates a site's settings.php in _provision_drupal_create_settings_file().

I noticed that this function is hardcoded to take in the contents of provision_drupal_settings.tpl.php to create settings.php, and had a few questions about this.

Hello all,
I'm new here. But it seems like everywhere I looked, Aegir has documentations mostly with apache server. Does Aegir work with Nginx?

Thanks,

When running drush.php provision verify, it seems provision is unable to find the master_db_host, master_db_user and master_db_passwd, resulting in an error: Could not connect to the master database. An error occurred at function : drush_provision_mysql_provision_verify_validate. If I pass the three options to the verify command as arguments, (eg. drush.php provision verify --master_db_host=localhost --master_db_user=user --master_db_passwd=passwd), provision verify works, and proceeds to creating the drushrc.php file, with NULL values for master_url and master_db.

Hi,

Aegir looks great beyond belief and I am seriously keen to try it out. However, I run ISPConfig on my server and I think the two will clash. Any thoughts/suggestions?

Cheers.

heebie

I need to create several sites that can communicate with each other in a twitter like manner. Has anyone done this before, if yes how? I can bypass this problem by using a third party webapp, but I don't want to this if I can use Drupal!

I would like to create an Ægir "site group" and let all members of this group be able to communicate with each other.

Drush 2.0 has been released!

This has been the major blocker for our 0.2 release, which will happen very very soon.

One of the most common questions that I get asked is why we are developing Aegir on Drupal 5. People who have been involved with the project for a while already know the answer, but I thought I'd post this executive summary.

Due to it's design, the Aegir system is fully capable of installing and managing Drupal 5, Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 sites, including managing upgrades of sites between all those versions. Only the front end (namely the hosting module, hostmaster install profile and now, the eldir theme) is Drupal 5 based.