Aegir Hosting System

I have dug myself an interesting hole - and I think that it shows a need for a troubleshooting chapter with some "wrench turning" instructions using drush and SQL instructions. The upgrade.sh script failed here with a php segfault error 6 at ... [More] php5[400000+514000] when moving from 0.4-rc1 to release 1.1 over an ssh connection where I su'ed into the aegir user. No idea why.read more [Less]

This is slightly related to my other post: Using post.d for rewrites and overriding configuration. Since we have to manually add SSLCertificateChainFile to the vhost-configuration file, that gets reset/generated whenever we verify or migrate, does ... [More] that mean we have to manually add it to each remote web server manually each time we verify a platform/site or add additional servers to the cluster? Any thoughts on adding SSLCertificateChainFile as an option in the fread more [Less]

I'm a bit new to Aegir and was wondering how to get phpmyadmin working after the Aegir installs? It seems like Aegir redirects localhost to a 404. I believe I need to access it at http://localhost/phpmyadmin Thanks for your help

I'm loving the Aegir ability to quickly and easily deploy new sites out to sub-domains. But an interesting future tweak would be to allow deployment of sites out to a sub directory of an already existing domain. I believe this kind of thing is ... [More] possible with Drupal (see http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site), but results are variable at best, especially when it comes to clean URLs etc. We have a large organisation with lots of different sites all under the one domain.read more [Less]

I just noticed that the following caveat was added to the multi-server documentation: "You don't choose a web server when installing a new site. Because a site depends on a platform, its web server is implied by which platform has been chosen. In ... [More] other words, all sites on a platform are hosted on the same server. You cannot host two sites on the same platform on different servers." How deeply coupled are servers to their platforms? It would be useful to be able to build multiple sites based on the same platform across a distributed set of smaller VPS hosts. [Less]

Not sure whether this is the place to discussed, but I was wondering if anyone had any feedback on the idea discussed here: http://drupal.org/node/1118198#comment-4414816 Essentially, the idea is to use the Environment module to automate many of the ... [More] changes that appear in migrating sites. Environment allows you to define types of environments, and to execute code when transitioning out of or into environments -- say, enable or disable a set of development modules, or swap one feature for another.read more [Less]

There's an issue with nginx configs - one may need to tweak some options, fix bugs etc. without next Aegir upgrade breaking all stuff. I know there's vhost-include mechanics but it doesn't seem to be implemented for Nginx. I've found related issue: ... [More] http://drupal.org/node/1068114 I noticed Barracuda & Octopus have more advanced configs, but it's not a viable solution because it's monolythic and forces many dependancies / unneeded options on user. I wasn't even able to install it in my Debian VE, but that's different story.. [Less]

Based on this and that, I've put together my first evar Bash script to aid in the provision of sites with Git working copies for the theme. I thought I'd share this with others. Any suggestions for bettering this hack?read more

What's the best policy for custom robots.txt per site or keeping it with platform change? I was looking at robots module but it requires the root robots.txt to be deleted.

Quoting http://community.aegirproject.org/node/538#comment-647 : Adding modules to individual sites is also discouraged, for essentially the same reason. When it's time to upgrade, you have to do it manually, so you lose all the benefits of ... [More] automation that Aegir provides, as well as the ability to roll back. I understand it, as following: because sites/sitename/* is not a part of a platform, but a part of site one can't upgrade sites by migrating. It's a known fact that many (most?) projects have site-specific code.read more [Less]