Apache

For Apache based installation hints see Apache / mySQL / PHP / Aegir

Nginx

Nginx is more performant than Apache, if you are interested in setting Aegir up using nginx Brian Gilbert from Realityloop has created a script to install everything that you need on a clean Mac (not already running anything on port 80), see OSX Aegir Installer on github.

This is a helper file to the canonical manual install process. It is aimed at helping you install Aegir on Mac OS X. Since PHP and MySQL support on OS X is fairly limited and complicated, a separate documentation page was created for that part of the documentation. You should follow this page all the way through and then proceed with the regular install, step 4: becoming the aegir user.

1. Special software requirements

While Mac OS X comes with Apache & PHP (and even MySQL on the Server version), the version of PHP shipped with 10.6 Snow Leopard is 5.3.x and thus may not work with Aegir (as of the 0.4alpha-era) and various other software. If you're running 10.5 Leopard, it may work out of the box, but I haven't tested it.

There are several different ways to get Apache, PHP 5.2, and MySQL 5 onto a Mac OS X machine. I give detailed instructions for MacPorts below, but if that's a bit more than you're ready to bite off right now, feel free to use an alternative approach.

One such alternative is MAMP. There is a good but outdated HOWTO for installing Aegir on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) using MAMP located here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/30270

MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and is the Mac equivalent of "LAMP". It is a self-contained package of all of these programs with a nice graphical installer and control panel. You can find it here: http://www.mamp.info/

MAMP is pretty straightforward, but it's also not very flexible (IMHO). While certainly not without its own headaches, MacPorts is a decently powerful way to sanely manage a healthy stack of open source UNIX software on your Mac. Since this is what I use, I'm going to assume MacPorts is in use for the rest of this HINTS file. I have also only tested this on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

If you don't yet have MacPorts installed, go here to get it: http://www.macports.org/install.php

Once it's installed, quit and re-launch your Terminal before continuing. Otherwise MacPorts won't yet be in your PATH.

The first two commands below are optional but recommended.

php5-apc is optional, but highly recommended as it will significantly increase PHP performance.

Watch the output of the last port command carefully, as there are usually some boring tasks for you to perform once the install is done. You'll be wishing you were running Ubuntu/Debian and apt-get by the time you're done.

2. Configure system requirements

Next we'll create the aegir user and add it to the _www group. This part is very different on Mac OS X than Linux or most other Unices. Must be a NeXTism. The command we will use he is "dscl", which is a short for Directory Service Command Line. In OSX 10.3 and earlier, that command is "nicl" (short for Net Info Command Line). It is also possible to create the user using the "Workgroup Manager" utility included with OS X Server. To obtain Workgroup Manager for the OS X Client, download the "Server Admin Tools" from Apple. For example, for Mac OS X 10.6, the admin tools can be found at:

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Server_Admin_Tools_10_6

Now you need to find the next spare UID to assign the user.

Here's how you find out on your system:

Then open the file users.out in a text editor, search for the highest 5xx user ID and add 1 to it (in your brain, not in the file). So if you find 506 but no 507, use 507. When you're done, delete users.out to be safe.

Now assign this UID to the aegir user, replacing "5xx" with the UID.

!! If you're running Mac OSX Lion, you also need to assign PrimaryGroupID to the aegir user.
   sudo dscl . -create /Users/aegir PrimaryGroupID XXX

Set a secure password for the aegir user, as it needs shell access.

Create the aegir home directory and set its permissions.

Add the aegir user to the _www group. This is the group Apache runs as.

Give the aegir user the ability to restart Apache.

Go to the last line of the file and add the following.

Save the file and exit your text editor.

Next configure Apache to include the Aegir config.

Configuring your MySQL database and user accounts is the same as in the INSTALL.txt file. But you probably want to add the path to its executables to your user's PATH and the aegir user's PATH.

The instructions that used to be here are now outdated, instead use the OSXAegirInstaller created by Brian Gilbert of Realityloop.

There are 2 methods of installing AEgir on CentOS both are the same but one is scripted and the other is manual and is documented below.

Scripted

The script can be found at https://github.com/marafa/aegir/tree/master/version2

NB. There is preliminary work to fix selinux at https://github.com/marafa/aegir/blob/master/aegir_selinux.sh. Feedback is quite welcome as well as git pulls.

Explanation

Connect to the server via ssh as root user.

ssh root@000.000.000.000

Install system requirements

yum install httpd php php-mysql php-cli php-gd php-process php-pear php-mbstring php-xml php-soap sudo rsync git postfix tree wget cronie unzip mysql-server mlocate nmap samba samba-client samba-common vim

Note: The following packages are not required but are very useful to include git wget mlocate nmap samba samba-client samba-common vim

SElinux

Make sure Security-Enhanced Linux is disabled as it creates install problems.

vim /etc/selinux/config Make sure SELINUX=disabled

If was SELINUX=enabled then we need to restart.

shutdown -r now

Note: I am not sure if it can be enabled at the end I have never tried.

Create the Aegir user

The provision framework of Aegir requires that the scripts run as a non-root system account, to ensure that it can correctly set the file permissions on the hosted files.

Also to ensure that the file permissions of the hosted sites are always as safe as can be, and especially to make sure that the web server does not have the ability to modify the code of the site, the configured system account needs to be a member of the web server group, in order to be able to correctly set the file permissions.

While you can choose another username, most aegir documentation assumes the Aegir user is aegir, its home directory is /var/aegir and the webserver group is www-data.

useradd --home-dir /var/aegir aegir

gpasswd -a aegir apache

chmod -R 755 /var/aegir

Apache configuration

Start Apache

service httpd start

Make apache start automatically after reboot.

chkconfig httpd on

We need to create a symbolic link between aegir and apache.

ln -s /var/aegir/config/apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/aegir.conf

PHP configuration

vim /etc/php.ini

Increase the memory limit as complex installation profiles or distributions require a PHP memory limit that is higher than the default (128M)

memory_limit = 192M

Set Date Zone to your time zone see http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone

date.timezone = “”

Sudo configuration

Next, we need to give the aegir user permission to execute the Apache2 command to restart the web server without entering a password.

visudo

Add to end of file

Defaults:aegir !requiretty

aegir ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/apachectl

DNS configuration

Aegir requires a properly configured "FQDN" (Fully Qualified Domain Name) be assigned to the machine. In practice, this means that the hostname returned by the hostname and uname -n shell commands should resolve to the IP address for this server, and vice versa.

If you only intend to use Aegir on a single server, it is acceptable for the resolved IP address to be the '127.0.0.1' loopback address.

If you intend to manage multiple servers using Aegir, you will need to make sure that the IP address is the public IP of this server.

You can add multiple entries to your /etc/hosts file for testing purposes, for example:#> >vim /etc/hosts Add your ip and hostname

000.000.000.000 hostname

Database configuration

Start mysql

service mysqld start

Make mysql start automatically after reboot.

chkconfig mysqld on

Configure Mysql

/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Recommended:

Set root Password

Remove anonymous users? y

Disallow root login remotely? y

Remove test database and access to it? y

Reload privilege tables now? y

Install drush

pear channel-discover pear.drush.org

pear install drush/drush-4.5.0

Check if drush works If you get PHP Fatal error: Class 'Console_Table' not found then

pear install Console_Table

Stop! Now become the Aegir user!

The remaining of this manual assumes you are running as the Aegir user. Things will go very wrong if you do not change your shell credentials to become that user.

su -s /bin/bash - aegir

Install provision

drush dl --destination=/var/aegir/.drush provision-6.x

Clear the drush cache

drush cache-clear drush

Run hostmaster-install

drush hostmaster-install

These are some really rough notes on how to go about creating a 4 server aegir installation (aegir, mysql, web1, web2).

Adapted from reading through the BOA project and my own experimentation.

** Note -- regarding the wildcard SSL, your sites will need some configuration in your settings.php or local.settings.php to check for the X-Forwarded-Proto headers. I can't recall if the wildcard SSL config.

These notes also assume the last Ubuntu LTS -- 10.04/Lucid.

aegirmysql:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install vim mysql-server


_USER="aegir"
_DOMAIN="aegir.domain.com"
_AEGIR_HOST="aegir.server.hostname"
_AEGIR_HOST_IP="123.456.789.01"
_AEGIR_PASSWORD="password"

#AEGIR_DB_USER=aegir_root
#AEGIR_DB_PASS=`echo $RANDOM:\`date\`:$AEGIR_HOST | openssl md5`

echo "[client]
user=root
password=password" >> .my.cnf

mysql -uroot mysql<<EOFMYSQL
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '$_USER'@'$_DOMAIN' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '$_USER'@'$_AEGIR_HOST' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '$_USER'@'$_AEGIR_HOST_IP' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '$_USER'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EOFMYSQL


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# https://launchpad.net/~brianmercer/+archive/nginx
# https://launchpad.net/~nginx/+archive/php5

aegircontrol:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/nginx-default

#php5-suhosin
CATHOSTDEBDEPS="git-core git-doc mysql-client-5.1 vim nginx-custom drush postfix php5-cli php5-mysql php5-fpm php5-gd rsync unzip bzr patch curl"
sudo apt-get -V install $CATHOSTDEBDEPS

#postfix config already sorted

sudo adduser --system --group --home /var/aegir aegir
sudo adduser aegir www-data
sudo chsh -s /bin/bash aegir

#patch drush, re: ereg()

#as root:
echo "aegir ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/nginx" >> /etc/sudoers

ln -s /var/aegir/config/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/aegir.conf
#disable directives in nginx.conf:
#types_hash_max_size
#tcp_nopush
#error_log
invoke-rc.d nginx restart

#install SSL cert to:
/etc/ssl/private/domain.com.cert.pem
cd /etc/ssl/private/
ln -s domain.com.cert.pem nginx-wild-ssl.crt
ln -s domain.com.cert.pem nginx-wild-ssl.key

#install SSL config to:
/var/aegir/config/server_master/nginx/pre.d/nginx_wild_ssl.conf
#TODO: also install for /var/aegir/config/server_aegirweb{1,2}.host.name

#as aegir:
cd ~

mkdir .ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa

ln -s /usr/share/drush /var/aegir/drush
mkdir ~/.drush
cd ~/.drush
wget -c http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/provision-6.x-1.3.tar.gz
tar -zxf provision-6.x-1.3.tar.gz

#htaccess password bit
mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
git clone --branch develop git://github.com/computerminds/aegir_http_basic.git
#must be develop branch to use crypt() and for nginx support
cp -r aegir_http_basic/provision ~/.drush/provision/aegir_http_basic
cp -r aegir_http_basic/hosting ~/hostmaster-6.x-1.3/profiles/hostmaster/modules/hosting/http_basic_auth
#set directory permissions? -- patch aegir/http_basic module to do so?

_DOMAIN="aegir.domain.com"
_USER="aegir"
#_AEGIR_HOST=`uname -n`
_AEGIR_HOST="aegir.server.hostname"
_AEGIR_HOME="$HOME"
_AEGIR_DB_PASS="password"
_AEGIR_DB_HOST="mysql.server.fqdn"
_AEGIR_VERSION="1.3"
#_AEGIR_ROOT="$_AEGIR_HOME/hostmaster-$_AEGIR_VERSION"
_ADM_EMAIL="admin@domain.com""
_WEBG=www-data
_USRG=users

#going vanilla
echo "drush hostmaster-install $_DOMAIN --aegir_host=$_AEGIR_HOST --aegir_db_user=$_USER --aegir_db_pass=$_AEGIR_DB_PASS --http_service_type=nginx --db_service_type=mysql --db_port=3306 --aegir_db_host=$_AEGIR_DB_HOST --client_email=$_ADM_EMAIL --script_user=$_USER --web_group=$_WEBG --profile=hostmaster -d -v"

drush hostmaster-install $_DOMAIN --aegir_host=$_AEGIR_HOST --aegir_db_user=$_USER --aegir_db_pass=$_AEGIR_DB_PASS --http_service_type=nginx --db_service_type=mysql --db_port=3306 --aegir_db_host=$_AEGIR_DB_HOST --client_email=$_ADM_EMAIL --script_user=$_USER --web_group=$_WEBG --profile=hostmaster -d -v

cd hostmaster-6.x-1.3
echo "alive" >> healthcheck

#enable aegir modules
drush @hostmaster en hosting_web_cluster
drush @hostmaster en hosting_alias
drush @hostmaster en hosting_http_basic_auth
#*** enable hosting client in features -- disabling client module cause WSOD on site add page

# setup aegirweb{1,2}
# test ssh to aegirweb{1,2}
# add to known_hosts

# NOTE: Aegir web clusters need to share the files, and private directories between web servers (also cache directory, if using boost module)
# Setup provision hook for NFS links
# http://drupal.org/node/1283738

mkdir -p /var/lib/sitedata/aegir
chown -R aegir:www-data /var/lib/sitedata/aegir

mkdir -p /var/lib/sitedata/aegir/cache
chown -R aegir:www-data /var/lib/sitedata/aegir/cache


# add web servers
# add web cluster
#TODO: Add DR web servers to cluster
#TODO: Add WR, re: DR web servers & firewall

# set date/time settings in Aegir

#TODO: Logrotate webserver logs

#TODO: Add an alias for the aegir user:
#aegir: "admin@domain.com""

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aegirweb{1,2}:
#TODO: Check puppeted stuff, fix, etc

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/nginx-default

CATWEBDEBDEPS="mysql-client-5.1 vim nginx-custom drush postfix php5-cli php5-mysql php5-fpm php5-gd rsync unzip patch"
sudo apt-get -V install $CATWEBDEBDEPS


sudo adduser --system --group --home /var/aegir aegir
sudo adduser aegir www-data
sudo chsh -s /bin/bash aegir

#install SSL cert to:
/etc/ssl/private/domain.com.cert.pem
cd /etc/ssl/private/
ln -s domain.com.cert.pem nginx-wild-ssl.crt
ln -s domain.com.cert.pem nginx-wild-ssl.key

#install SSL config to:
/var/aegir/config/server_master/nginx/pre.d/nginx_wild_ssl.conf
#TODO: also install for /var/aegir/config/server_aegirweb{1,2}.host.name

#as root:
echo "aegir ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/nginx" >> /etc/sudoers

#as aegir:
mkdir /var/aegir/.ssh
cat aegir.aegircontrol.id_rsa.pub >> /var/aegir/.ssh/authorized_keys2


#TODO: Logrotate webserver logs

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Note: This installation process assumes that you're using a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 x64. If you use a lower version of Ubuntu, you may have trouble with this guide.

On most VPS providers, you'll be logged in as root initially. The installation process below assumes that you are logged in as root. Obviously, this is not a secure long-term solution, so once you're done with this guide, I suggest setting up public key authentication, turning off root login over SSH, and creating yourself a new unprivileged user. That's out of scope for this doc page, so you're probably on your own for that.

Finally, this document assumes that you're going to be installing aegir at aegir.example.com. Any time you see example.com, replace it with your domain.

1. Housekeeping

Make sure you're up to date:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

And that you have the the python-software-properties package (we'll need it later):

apt-get install python-software-properties

2. Install MariaDB

From mariadb.org:

MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement functionality for MySQL. 
MariaDB is built by some of the original authors of MySQL, with assistance from the
broader community of Free and open source software developers. In addition to the core
functionality of MySQL, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature enhancements including
alternate storage engines, server optimizations, and patches.

Install MariaDB:

apt-get install mariadb-server

You'll need to set your root password for the MariaDB server

3. Install Nginx

Next, install Nginx and PHP-FPM:

apt-get install nginx php5-cli php5-mysql php5-fpm php5-gd

Create the default docroot for Nginx as well:

mkdir -p /var/www/nginx-default

4. Install all the other stuff

apt-get install git-core git-doc vim drush postfix rsync unzip bzr patch curl

When prompted for Postfix configuration, select "Internet Site", then use "example.com" for the System mail name.

5. Create the Aegir user

Easy:

adduser --system --group --home /var/aegir aegir
adduser aegir www-data
chsh -s /bin/bash aegir

6. Misc Configuration

Make sure the Aegir user is allowed to restart Nginx:

echo "aegir ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/nginx" >> /etc/sudoers

Symlink Aegir's nginx configuration into place:

ln -s /var/aegir/config/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/aegir.conf

Disable duplicated directives in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf (the Aegir config specifies these values as well - if you do not disable them in the main nginx.conf, nginx will fail to restart). You can just remove (or comment them out with a "#") the lines that start with the following

types_hash_max_size
tcp_nopush
error_log

Then, restart Nginx:

service nginx restart

7. Install Aegir

IMPORTANT Switch to the Aegir user now: IMPORTANT

su - aegir
cd ~/

Download the latest Provision release:

mkdir ~/.drush
cd ~/.drush
wget -c http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/provision-6.x-2.1.tar.gz
tar -zxf provision-6.x-2.1.tar.gz
rm provision-6.x-2.1.tar.gz

Start the Aegir install process:

cd ~/
drush hostmaster-install aegir.example.com \
--aegir_host="aegir.example.com" \
--http_service_type="nginx" \
--aegir_db_user="root" \
--aegir_db_pass="[YOUR ROOT DATABASE PASSWORD]" \
--db_service_type="mysql" \
--db_port=3306 \
--aegir_db_host="localhost" \
--client_email="[YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS]" \
--script_user="aegir" \
--web_group="www-data" \
--profile=hostmaster

8. Optional Improvements

drupal.org/project/hosting_queue_runner

drupal.org/project/provision_boost