Aegir self presentation

Aegir Hosting System By Steven C Jackson Mediacurrent Consultant South East Linux Fest June 13, 2010

Vitae Steven is a software engineer with Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, who is close to completing a Master's in Applied Computer Science from Kennesaw State University. He is proficient in administering Red Hat and Debian-based GNU/Linux Systems. He is well-versed in software analysis, design, and implementation in PHP, Perl, BASH, C++, and Java. Steven is a Red Hat Certified Technician that has worked on enterprise-grade Drupal sites since 2008. He has maintained and created custom modules for Drupal versions 5 and 6. Steven's passion lays in solving in-depth problems in a pragmatic and efficient, language-agnostic manner. In addition to programming software, Steven enjoys writing and blogging about technologies. Steven recently published a beginner's BASH guide (titled: "BASH.ED"), maintains a blog that caters to GNU/Linux systems users, and is an open-source evangelist. `

Pronunciation No agreement Ay-jeer Ay-gir Ee-gir Ee-jeer http://raincitystudios.com/topics/aeger `

Aegir, Defined
Management system for site maintenance and deployment
Allows the administrator to rapidly deploy a new site
Treats sites as nodes
Aegir == God of Oceans => Drupal is a Drop
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What You'll Need
Red Hat or Debian (including derivatives)
No plans for a Windows implementation
LAMP Stack
Admin rights to server
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Debian Installation
Why Debian?
Most popular desktop OS (including derivatives)
It's likely you have a Debian/Ubuntu/Mint machine laying around somewhere so no need to isntall RHEL, CentOS, or Fedora
Debian is gaining Server OS market share
It's good to learn something besides RHEL servers
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Debian Installation, cont.
Full Instructions:
http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system
Aegir project wiki
Debian-based instructions
Also an unsupported shell script available (alas, it wasn't me who wrote it)
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Overview
Install LAMP
apache2, php5, mysql-server, php5-mysql et. al.
Install postfix (or other MTA)
Create user 'aegir' (non-interactive)
Create aegir.conf symlink from etc
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Create aegir database
Add aegir user to database
Setup local DNS (if setting up locally)
Use /etc/hosts
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
Download Aegir proper via git or http
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Run the install script as the aegir user
If dl script rather than git you can update the AEGIR_VERSION variable
Restart Apache (as root, of course)
Verify your installation
Point your browser to whatever you setup in /etc/hosts
Begin GUI aegir setup
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GUI Setup
Choose and installation profile – I go with hostmaster
Do the usual drupal settings/files setup
Database Setup
Aegir does its install
See following screens
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Creating Sites
Admin ->Create Content->Sites
Can use different platforms e.g. Drupal, Acquia, Pressflow, Prosepoint, OA
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Installation Process `

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Questions? `

Contact [email_address] http://www.coderswasteland.com http://www.mediacurrent.com http://www.ossolutions.org `

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