Development

What is the 'development' all about, really? This highly depends on your needs and skills - there is no one, 'correct' definition or recipe. Instead, there are many ways to build and manage your sites right, just in different style. We support them all.

Your Drupal Site Upgrade -- Safe Workflow

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How to properly and safely upgrade a Pressflow 6 or Drupal 7 site when there is either security or feature minor version upgrade for core available? Read more »

Managing your code in the Aegir Style

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Aegir “enforces” some good practices, but not to make your work fancy in the “Aegir Style”, rather to make it secure, effective and re-usable (modular). Read more »

How to add custom platform properly?

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How to add your custom platform so it will work like all other platforms installed by default? Read more »

How to disable all caching and aggregation?

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! Note! Since BOA-2.4.0 the .dev. mode works only for site aliases, no longer for the main site name. Read more »

How to use Drush aliases?

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While Aegir manages Drush aliases for its backend needs, they are normally not available for the main nor the extra shell users on the instance. Read more »

How to use Chive Manager?

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You can manage your databases via Chive Manager web interface, using access credentials (dbhost, dbname and dbpass) available in every site’s drushrc.php file, locate Read more »

How to customize built-in platforms?

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Some built-in platforms often come with a bit outdated modules, so I would like to be able to upgrade them if there is security or feature release, and sometimes I would also like to apply a core patc Read more »

Git or Platforms based workflow in Aegir?

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Are you trying to set up Git for version control with the BOA system and you are curious if there is any recommended workflow for doing this given that there is only a Read more »

Import your sites to Aegir in 8 easy steps

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This is our standard recipe, useful when you need to import a site with some older Drupal core or some custom installation profile (please see Hint #7 for custom profil Read more »

Core Conceptions

Understanding core conceptions is probably the most important step in this comparison, however it is not easy, because core conceptions tend to hide themselves behind t Read more »

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