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Great to hear that people are also thinking along these lines.  I will try and muster the troops (and please someone else muster them if i don't )

I have made a short screencast to show how Aegir + provision_civicrm works:
http://www.bidon.ca/random/2010-12-30-creating-civicrm-websites-using-aegir-provision

@Joseph : re:status, I use it for a few production sites, but I consider it beta, we haven't done many migrations yet. Right now the priority is on setting up the site key and crons automatically, fix a few issues in how site parameters (URLs/directories) are handled. It would be great if more people were testing it and providing feedback.

@ jtbayly: Thanks for the feedback! Regarding the issue posted by omega8cc, I had difficulty reproducing the errors, so I made a low priority. Did you have an error message when trying to create a new site on another platform?

I approved your account for the Redmine bugtracker. It is a public tracker, only that accounts are moderated, in order to avoid spam. But I guess I should move it to Drupal.org asap.

matt

I raised a CiviCRM issue before I'd seen this thread ...

Following the instructions on the CiviCRM Wiki:

• Copy in /var/aegir/.drush/provision_civicrm
• Create /var/aegir/makefiles/civicrm-6.20-3.3.1-1.0.make

Aegir will create a Platform OK and sync all the files to the (remote) server, but is unable to create a new Site as drush provision-install is unable to find sites:all:modules:civicrm:templates:CRM:common:civicrm.settings.php.tpl ... which is there ... and can't create a settings.php file for the new site. Presumably some path variables not quite right?

The files have been sync'd to the remote server OK so the template is both local to hostmaster and remote on deployment server.

Just fishing to see if anyone's looked at this before I scratch around in the code. Is this related to the reported errors above?

Does the provision_civicrm submodule (still) intervene in all subsequent platform builds as reported elsewhere? i.e. not all Platforms will be CiviCRMs subsequently.

Hoping someone is still following this...

Just signed up on Koumbit's Redmine site to report issue, but thought I should maybe cross-post here until (if?) I get approved there.

First off, this is wonderful...just what I've been looking for!

I installed the civicrm_provision files to my .drush folder, created a make file per Mathieu's instructions, and verified the platform...great, all went well until I installed a site.

First, there were several deprecated: function ereg() is deprecated in ..... includes\file.inc on line 941, which I fixed according to the posts here: http://drupal.org/node/527548.

Then, when I look at the verify task after fixing that, I got this:

Configuring site for civicrm support
Tarfile unpacked.
Settings file generated: /var/aegir/platforms/prod-drupal-6.20-civi-3.3.5-1.0/sites/demo.civiclix.com/civicrm.settings.php
CiviCRM installed.
Drush command could not be completed.
An error occurred at function : drush_hosting_task
Command dispatch complete

Tried to do the provision from the command line, but didn't see any errors other than something related to civicron user (will re-run and paste error if necessary...).

During the install, I do get the email login link from Aegir, but - of course - can'l login because the verify failed; HOWEVER, I noticed that the 'enable' link was available in Aegir, so I tried it and - lo and behold - it enables fine and I can log in.

Now here's the real problem...CiviCRM looks to be installed, but is not enabled...when I enable it, I get the WSoD...nothing. I can click my browser's back button, disable it, and the site is available again.

Can anyone point me in the right direction??? This is fantastic, and I'm happy to test this out and help troubleshoot in any way I can...

Thanks in advance!

Thanks, Matt...

Trying to clean up my Aegir system to re-run everything and troubleshoot as you instructed, but running into another interesting problem...

In trying to disable/delete old testing sites, the cron task never seems to complete...the disable tasks are in the queue, but never get processed. Crontab seems to be configured properly, and I've never had a problem before, although I did read a post somewhere about errors with civicrm_provision preventing the install of other new sites. Haven't experienced that (that's why I installed the site I'm now trying to delete - to make sure I could still provision other sites...), but it's strange that the disable tasks never seem to run.

Will try to work through this issue, but thought I should give you some background on my environment:

OS: Ubuntu 10.04
Drush Version 4.1 (installed server-wide per this post: http://openspring.net/tip/how-to-install-drush-serverwide-in-less-than-one-minute).
Aegir Version 0.4-beta2
Latest version of Civicrm_Provision
PHP.ini Memory Limits set to 192MB in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

Unfortunately, my Aegir system is pretty messy...I've been doing lots of testing, and adding/deleting sites for weeks; Aegir isn't that great about cleanup, I've noticed :-( , so I'm trying to manually get it back to a semi-pristine state before working through this new issue.

Thanks for your help...will post issue where you suggested, once I can get to the point where I can reliably run the task manually.

Thanks again, Matt...

Funny...can manually disable no problem, no errors; just hangs up in Aegir frontend. Where should I post that issue...?

Yes, I've had to delete sites manually before...will clean everything up before we get back to my initial issue.

I did notice that I had memory errors in my php logs...need I up the limit past 192??? That seems pretty high, but I know in previous manual installs of CiviCRM, it's a common problem.

I'm interested in this Aegir/Drush/CiviCRM provisioning as well and may have some time to devote it in coming months.