Managing 50 CiviCRM installations using aegir
Intros
Dan: Josue: 22 seperate installs of CiviCRM each hand upgraded Michelle: working on python scripts to deploy mediawiki farm
May 1st / PeopleLink vs Aeger for multiple drupel stuff
=May 1st approach
Dupel core drupel-6.0 drupel-7.0 every user has symlink to core drupel and each user has own sites directory, running suexec.
Started with drupel multi-site, every site shares web directory & insecure. MFPL switched every shares and can ride.
Downside is for 10% upgrades, each user needs d
Aegir
Drush is drupel + shell
Aegir is drush and drush make based
drush make works like make
Progressive Tech project uses a make file in git repo. Patches directory
bash script goes through each instance
Aeger is drupel interface to drush drush make
- Server
- Site
- <something>
Michelle MeidaWiki python scripts=
local settings template based on API of hosting company every site has on code (no symlinks)
Jamie: MediaWiki has multi-site option.
Questions
Drupel Features: co
4.1 CiviCRM , every config is in db, but config files can override everything.
Lead developers of CiviCRM deal with people who can't edit files on remote host
Two classes of config, w/ security info & wihtout
best practice is to #include security into settings.php
http://code.google.com/p/ruckusing/
May 1st people link control panel
upgrading apps big issue.
cpanel installs but doesn't update
Other tools=
http://drupal.org/project/pantheon
more talk
PTP hosts everything on May 1st people link, own own servers
100 virtual servers , 25 physical servers.