General discussions

Hello all,

First thank you for all the work that has been put into Aegir and Mercury/Pantheon. I've been keeping an eye on both for a while and am ready to jump in. While my needs aren't heavy ... yet. A current project has the potential to need the power and scalability of Mercury/Pantheon and I want Aegir to make life simpler for implementing new sites and creating test development environments. So with that in mind I am creating a new server at Linode and will be migrating my sites(mostly D6 with one D5) from my old standard server.

Since I am converting from a box that wasn't using Apache/Solr, had no reverse proxy(Varnish) or caching such as APC/memcached in place I don't have to have those options fully in place on day one. I can activate those as I get a handle on their unique twists due to multi-site on Mercury/Pantheon. But I do want to lay the groundwork and get as much in place up front as I can.

I have been reading everything I can find(I'll include some of the links at the end of this post), which has answered many of my questions. But has also lead to a few more detailed new ones.

I'm trying to install 0.4a9, and after patching drush with the table.inc patch, the install gets to asking about the admin e-mail adress, but then it just freezes there. Mysql cpu % spikes, but nothing actually happens in the db, "show full processlist" returns a line like this:
89 | intntnllyInvalid | localhost:60780 | NULL | Sleep | 727 | | NULL

Any ideas on how I can proceed?

Hiya,

When I started Aegir I initially moved a lot of disparate sites onto the one platform. With each new Drupal release, and as we approach a stable Aegir release, I've been chipping away at standardizing my platforms.

One of the blockers is that some sites have modules in their site directory (eg. sites/blah.com/modules/somethingodd - ie. at the time it was easier to do it that way). Sometimes I decide to move this to sites/all, and sometimes there is a better alternative to install. Whatever the case i want to analyze the data efficiently.

All my site files inside vhost.d contain the following <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
for the moment I change it by hand to <VirtualHost *:80>

I changed my server node to contain both 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.156 but it didn't help.

Do I have to reverify all sites to fix this?

This might be a dumb question, but I'm somewhat new to the whole server hosting game. But how would an Aegir setup on a server work alongside a WHM/cPanel or Plesk environment. Seeing as WHM/cPanel and whatnot have a lot of control over DNS issues, databases etc etc.

As of August 5 2010 it would appear any attempt to install aegir fails due to a corrupt drush install. Prior to August 5 2010 everything was working as expected. When can we expect an update on this? Thanks -

Hi,

I just discovered Aegir and palyed with it.
So maybe it's a stupid question but I didn't find the answer anywhere :(

How can I add a language for a plateform or a site.
I want to add a site in another language than english.

If someone can help me.

Is it possible with aegir (in future versions) that I can create ftp/ssh accounts for each client site that I create with disk quota limits? The problem as of now, is that I have the flexibility of creating sites for clients in a wink but cannot provide them with any ftp user accounts to upload files/modules.

Suggestion of creating a symlink as mentioned in http://groups.drupal.org/node/41584 does not solve the purpose. As that way, I cannot restrict the user from exceeding their disk quota (which is ubuntu set for their home folder).

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

UPDATE: After introducing dual-core Barracuda/Octopus Aegir Installer, this thread is continued also here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/89594.

TL;DR:
Is there anyway to make Aegir and DA coexist happily?
After reading and meditating on it more I guess the big question is can Aegir provide an environment where different sites can share signon's and nodes?