While there are many Aegir related tips and documentation available, including scripts for complete Aegir system install on LAMP stack, we often have clients using Aegir the first time on their new VPS, but with enough experience to manage and transfer Drupal sites, and they often tend to overlook some required steps, they still make simple mistakes, or feel lost in a too detailed how-to, so I think it can be useful to post also some simple check-lists to make the work easier for others and to help enjoy Aegir power and simplicity.
I’m creating this as a discussion rather than wiki page to give you an easy access to comment, share experience, contribute your own tips and tricks so later we will be able to improve Aegir main documentation, using real world experience from many sources instead of one or a few.
To start it, I will share our standard checklists we are using to help our clients, when they know Drupal enough and just need some handy advise to avoid going through all this basic stuff in documentation.
Some of my tips refers to our standard Aegir setup, where separate Aegir platform lives in /data/aegir, while all platforms and sites live in /data/distro. Your setup may be diferent.
Where does the Nginx conf
Where does the Nginx conf file that points to /data/u/ resides? If I want to make a specific Virtual Host to a different location?
In the standard Debian location
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf