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Submitted by mig5 on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 00:17

Here's a screencast to guide you through the steps involved in installing our latest Aegir release, 0.4 alpha5 on a fresh Debian Lenny virtual server with no other prior configurations.

Warning: this is a very boring screencast, for two reasons:

1) You really can follow the instructions / copy and paste the commands from the INSTALL.txt with barely any changes required. Seriously. That's what I did.

2) I sound exactly like a zombie doing his tax return. Hey, it's 1am.

Other than that, I hope it's educational and encourages people to go through the same (very easy, but then I would say that) process.

Great meat!

Submitted by sirkitree on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 02:18.

Even though you profess this to be a 'boring' screencast (and it is a bit dry), there is a ton of great meat in here that you don't get by just reading the INSTALL.txt - background on why certain steps are important and the concepts behind certain commands are really great to help solidify background knowledge so that when things go wrong for the user, they have more than a clue on how to troubleshoot what they've done.

Thank you a lot for this screencast as well as all the hard work you've done on this project!!

Excellent stuff. There really

Submitted by Pls on Wed, 03/02/2010 - 00:53.

Excellent stuff. There really was a need for up-to-date tutorial of aegir. Installation is boring, but its only done once, then the fun part comes up :) Thanks

Zombies pay taxes! Who

Submitted by Cary Gordon on Wed, 03/02/2010 - 11:05.

Zombies pay taxes! Who knew?

Thanks for this. It is great.

aegir

Submitted by Nicolas on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 07:19.

Thanks for this screencast.
I get this error when executing echo "Include /var/aegir/config/vhost.d/" > /etc/apache2/conf.d/aegir
This is the error: bash: /etc/apache2/conf.d/aegir: Permission denied
I am installing on ubuntu 9.10. What can I do to get around this problem?

Thanks for your help!

You likely ran the command as

Submitted by mig5 on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 07:57.

You likely ran the command as the aegir user, or some other unprivileged user.

You need to run it as root or as a sudoer same as you ran the apt-get commands.

That's the weird part.I

Submitted by Nicolas on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 21:38.

That's the weird part.I started with my own user. I did all the commands with "sudo". When I do the include part with sudo, I get the permission denied error. I don't get what's going wrong...

When you redirect to stdout

Submitted by mig5 on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 21:48.

When you redirect to stdout (i.e the > part), the stdout is trying to write to a file without sudo privileges.

Become root with 'sudo su' and then run the command and you will see that it works.

P.S I realise that the

Submitted by mig5 on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 21:52.

P.S I realise that the INSTALL.txt endorses running with the 'sudo' prefix instead of root, which will fail that Include echo as you have discovered, although it is mentioned 'Shell commands as root'. I've updated the INSTALL.txt to suit. a sudo prefix will not work here.

Thanks

Submitted by Nicolas on Fri, 12/02/2010 - 05:02.

Thanks for your replies. Sudo su and then running the command worked! I'll continue the setup now.

Aegir makes me so happy

Submitted by Peter on Fri, 12/02/2010 - 01:26.

I love Aegir, it saves me so much time and looks so good doing it.

I created a screencast that goes along w/ this screencast here:
http://peterjolson.com/blog/setting-cheap-vps-virtualmin-and-aegir-vps-n...

I use a really cheap VPS host that would allow VPS Newbies to get their feet wet before going off to a good host like Linode.

I tried not to duplicate any of your info and referenced his video... Just thought I'd let you know

next error

Submitted by Nicolas on Fri, 12/02/2010 - 06:04.

When executing the script to get drush, provisioning,... I get an error when provisioning should get downloaded.
Installing provision backend in /var/aegir/.drush
12:01:16 up 6:57, 3 users, load average: 0.21, 0.07, 0.05
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
xxxxx tty7 :0 Wed08 28:36m 2:10 0.83s gnome-session
xxxxx pts/0 :0.0 Wed08 1.00s 0.88s 8.23s gnome-terminal
xxxxx pts/1 :0.0 11:34 4:57 0.63s 0.63s bash
gzip: provision-0.4-alpha5.tgz: No such file or directory
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

My system is ubuntu 9.10.
Thanks for any help.

Upgrade from 3.0

Submitted by Julian on Mon, 22/02/2010 - 22:53.

How difficult would it be to upgrade my Aegir 3.0 Server to 0.4 Alpha 5?

I already have a few sites running on there and it makes my Drupal administration a lot easer.

But I would really like to have the clone and resend login details features. And the JQuery refresh scripts is quite awesome as well...

I did install a fresh Aegir 0.4 Alpla 5 on Debian without any major headches...

And thanks for your awesome work on Aegir

You should be able to upgrade

Submitted by mig5 on Tue, 23/02/2010 - 21:01.

You should be able to upgrade from 0.3 to the latest 0.4 release with no problem. I tested the process myself prior to making the last release.

Just be sure to follow the UPGRADE.txt closely. There is one bug in the file, related to incorrect instructions regarding downloading of Provision. I documented the fix here.