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Thought I would share some useful info (before I ask for support help) on a few lessons I have learned for a Aegir multi-server configuration I have running at Linode (IMO the only Linux VPS for hardcore Drupal deployment). My ultimate goal is to be able deploy Drupal sites in a HA environment without having a complicated mess of more than 5 servers and running services like clustered MySQL.
The main problems I encountered in getting a multi-server configuration to the point where I could deploy a site and migrate it around to different nodes were;

nightly backup script (aegir_backup.sh ) works and stores backups in the /aegir/backups directory but i would like to change the backup directory to different place as i run another cron job which deletes backups which are older then one week .As it also deletes all backups which are done by users through normal site backup through aegir front end. i would like to change the nightly backup location so that the backups created by users wont get deleted.

can any one help me to do this.

thanks

I am taking two weeks off work (which includes aegir work), starting today. I mention this because I will not be available to process all the marvelous patches and issues you people are submitting to the issue queue following the drupalcon presentation. :) I feel it may be the same for other developpers.. Don't worry, we'll be back!

Hello,

I am attempting to install Aegir and I am stuck at the SSH configuration step. I am probably overlooking something obvious but can't figure out what that is. I have, however, searched the forum for others having the same problem, have read general documentation on SSH and Aegir-specific discussion of this issue, but still cannot resolve my problem.

Specifically: I have reviewed the canonical instructions for Aegir and the following pages (plus many other pages not listed):
http://groups.drupal.org/node/36886

UPDATE: Barracuda and Octopus new home is on d.o, plus there is BOA group:

http://drupal.org/project/barracuda
http://drupal.org/project/octopus
http://groups.drupal.org/boa

NOTE: this thread is a continuation of previously single-core Barracuda Installer introduction: http://groups.drupal.org/node/84074.

Hi there,

we are just about to setup a new LAMP system for Aegir.
Do you have any recommendations towards the Apache / PHP setup?
There is another server which is running PHP as fastCGI and this is not nice to administer - so I'd like to go with a more standardized setup this time (debian and deb packages whereever possible).

How about SuPHP?
Does APC integrate smoothly into Aegir?
Are there any best practices that come to mind, thinking of a new environment with this system?

Thank you in advance
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Hi there,

I'm just wondering about this in the INSTALL.txt of provision:

the server must be reserved for
Aegir. Sharing the server with other control panels such as Cpanel, Plesk or
AlternC will very likely create problems and is not supported.

Can I run some WordPress installations on the same server (other vHosts of course)?

And I assume that wanting to have SysCP is not really wise in that case?

Thank you in advance
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When Aegir writes (or re-writes) settings.php and drushrc.php, how does it figure out which install profile to reference?

Here's why I'm asking:

I just upgraded to 0.4 alpha 11 from 0.4 alpha 6 and had to re-verify all my sites to get them to come back online after the upgrade. When I "verify" a site, Aegir rewrites settings.php and drushrc.php. (That is:
/var/aegir/platforms/myplatform/sites/mysite.com/settings.php and
/var/aegir/platforms/myplatform/sites/mysite.com/drushrc.php)

Hello chaps and chapettes,

Previously I've been able to use the various provision_db_connect(), provision_db_fetch_array() functions to obtain data from the aegir database from within my install profile for a newly provisioned site. With the new services abstraction these functions appear to be gone.

An example of what I need to do might be adding a openid credentials of the aegir client that created the site, or setting the site_name based on information gathered when the user created the site.

Something like...


provision_db_connect();

Greatings All,

We are working our way through the aegir suite of modules, hooks and code. We recently found that if we added our own aliases for files etc to the vhost files, they got wacked during the next verify (Makes sense). The Aegir Verify task rebuilds the site apache vhost file each time. We then found and added code to the template file used to build the vhost files. This provides a great solution for aliases we wanted included for all new sites.

template: provision/web_server/provision_apache_vhost.tpl.php