Aegir Hosting System presented at Southeast Linux Fest by Steven C Jackson

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

2. 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. `

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

5. Allows the administrator to rapidly deploy a new site

6. Treats sites as nodes

7. Aegir == God of Oceans => Drupal is a Drop `

9. Admin rights to server `

11. It's likely you have a Debian/Ubuntu/Mint machine laying around somewhere so no need to isntall RHEL, CentOS, or Fedora

12. Debian is gaining Server OS market share

13. It's good to learn something besides RHEL servers `

15. Also an unsupported shell script available (alas, it wasn't me who wrote it) `

17. Create user 'aegir' (non-interactive)

18. Create aegir.conf symlink from etc `

20. Add aegir user to database

24. Verify your installation

25. Point your browser to whatever you setup in /etc/hosts

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28. Do the usual drupal settings/files setup

29. Database Setup

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33. Can use different platforms e.g. Drupal, Acquia, Pressflow, Prosepoint, OA `

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43. Questions? `

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

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