So, after a few failed attempts at installing the Aegir 3 Drupal control system we hit upon this “recipe” as what works for us currently on a fresh install of Debian 8 Jessie or Ubuntu 14.04.
This assumes you are logged in as
root. First, update and upgrade your system.
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
For the version of OS that currently gets installed with a fresh
Binary Lane VPS we also need to update the base system. We like to use aptitude for that; while we’re installing aptitude, we might as well install the other thing that Aegir needs to install properly:
apt-get install curl sendmail aptitude -y
Upgrade:
aptitude safe-upgrade -y
Now, we need to install the database server. We use MariaDB.
apt-get install mariadb-server -y
One that’s done – you will be prompted to enter a root password for the database – we run the following command:
mysql_secure_installation
Don’t worry about changing the root password now that you have already set one, but delete the test database when prompted, disable anonymous access and flush privileges. Now we can install Aegir, nginx, php5-fpm etc.:
echo “deb http://debian.aegirproject.org stable main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aegir-stable.list
curl http://debian.aegirproject.org/key.asc | sudo apt-key add –
apt-get update
apt-get install aegir3 aegir3-provision aegir3-hostmaster nginx php5-fpm
Enter the hostmaster URL – usually the fully qualified domain name. Enter the database root password once for provision and once for hostmaster.
Assuming all of the above has gone well, you should be given a one-time-login link in your terminal at the end of the install process, e.g.:
http://aegir.example.com.au/user/reset/1/1446598196/Nw4T4yd25IWEngCP2d2A_Ck3XslBiobnhbuNzXU4/login
Now, before using that run the following:
visudo
Add this to the end of the file:
Defaults:aegir !requiretty
aegir ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/nginx
This gives Aegir – the aegir user – permission to restart nginx without requiring a sudo password.
Test this works by doing the following:
su – aegir
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
What you want to see then is this:
* Restarting nginx nginx
[ OK ]
Then:
vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Comment out by putting a # in front of:
# tcp_nopush on;
# types_hash_max_size 2048;
# error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
Reboot, and use the one-time-link. You should be logged in fine and now can use Aegir!
Hover over it and you should see “Library” and “Add New”:
Click “Add New”.
Drag and drop some files in, or click “Select Files” and choose them from your file system. You will see the progress bars for each file below the selection area. Once all of the relevant media files are uploaded, look on the left for “Products” – hover over it and you should see “Add Product”:
Click on that, and you’ll unsurprisingly be taken to the “New Product” screen.
Here you can add the product name, choose the category it should appear in – you can pick multiple categories – and add the contents for the product page, including additional photos/videos. Add the text in the blank white box on the lower left, and add images/video/etc. with the “Add Media” button. Scrolling down you should see some more info you need to add:
Most of it is self-explanatory – you’ll need to set a product image that appears in the search results and category views, and click on the various tabs in the area with the red rectangle around it to add the various info there.
Once you have done that, head back up to the top and click “Publish” to make the product live!
So, you have an image using the above. How do you make it into an image with a caption?
