Aegir + EC2

Out of date notes on installing Drupal + Aegir on Amazon EC2 then creating an AMI. Assumes CentOS.

Aegir EC2 installation

• • adduser aegir

  • usermod -G apache aegir

  • groups aegir

  • mkdir -p /var/aegir/config/vhost.d

  • mkdir -p /var/aegir/backups

  • chmod -R 0700 /var/aegir/{config,backups}

  • chown -R aegir /var/aegir

  • su -s /bin/sh aegir

As the aegir user:

• • export DRUPAL_DIR=/var/aegir/drupal-6.13

  • export AEGIR_TAG=DRUPAL-6--0-3-RC4

  • cd /var/aegir

  • export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal

  • cvs co -d drush -rDRUPAL-6--2-0 contributions/modules/drush

  • cvs co -d .drush/provision -r$AEGIR_TAG contributions/modules/provision

  • $DRUSH dl drupal

  • cd $DRUPAL_DIR

  • cvs co -d profiles/hostmaster -r$AEGIR_TAG contributions/profiles/hostmaster

  • cvs co -d profiles/hostmaster/modules/hosting -r$AEGIR_TAG contributions/modules/hosting

  • $DRUSH dl --destination=./profiles/hostmaster/modules install_profile_api-6.x-2.1

  • cvs co -d profiles/hostmaster/themes/eldir -r$AEGIR_TAG contributions/themes/eldir

  • ec2-upload-bundle -b [BUCKET] -m /mnt/image.manifest.xml -a[REDACTED] -s [REDACTED]

  • mkdir sites/$AEGIR_DOMAIN

  • cp sites/default/default.settings.php sites/$AEGIR_DOMAIN/settings.php

  • chmod g+w sites/$AEGIR_DOMAIN/settings.php

  • mkdir sites/$AEGIR_DOMAIN/files

  • chmod 2770 sites/$AEGIR_DOMAIN/files

  • chgrp apache sites/$AEGIR_DOMAIN/{settings.php,files}