Install drupal-based project management system onto our servers

[ed]

Please can you install a suitable project management drupal-based tool onto the suitable server? I am thinking of Open Atrium. It's for staff and partners to use for management stuff (ie not a ticketing system or mediawiki).

Open Atrium?

Can you let me know how long it would take to install to a point where I can manage it and get a pilot project up and running?

[jim]

FYI Octopus (part of BOA) can auto-install the distros on this page: ​https://drupal.org/project/octopus

We just need to add the correct platform code to ~/.tn.octopus for Atrium from here: ​http://drupalcode.org/project/octopus.git/blob/HEAD:/OCTOPUS.sh.txt#l143

Then it's just a case running octopus up-stable tn platforms (I think) to install the newly chosen platform(s) on the server.

From there we just need to set up a site on the new platform that is installed in Aegir. And set up Ed's account.

I would estimate 10-30 minutes.

[chris]

I guess Open Atrium would do the job, I'm sure it would be a lot quicker for Jim to install this if it's going to live on wiki:PuffinServer and it does make sense for all Drupal sites to use this server. If Jim does do the install and documents what was done I might feel more confident in adding sites next time -- messing around with a system I don't fully understand on a live server is something I try to avoid if possible :-)

The question that springs to my mind is what domain do you want to use? if you use something.transitionnetwork.org then HTTPS won't be a problem as we have a wild card cert and I expect that people will be only using modern browsers so they will have SNI support and a dedicated IP address won't be needed -- I'd strongly suggest the site be made HTTPS only.

[ed]

OK thanks guys

Jim please can you:

1. set up OA on puffin with Ed as the big cheese user so that it works with https as suggested by Chris
2. document what you did for future reference

Chris: please can you:

1. set up 'space.transitionnetwork.org'to point to Jim's install

[ed]

and add your time to this ticket JIM!

[chris]

Replying to ed:

Chris: please can you:

1. set up 'space.transitionnetwork.org'to point to Jim's install

No need, we have *.transitionnetwork.org pointing to wiki:PuffinServer and it has a *.transitionnetwork.org cert so it's all set up as far as I'm aware :-)

[ed]

Jim - please can you let me know when you'll be able to knock this up?

[jim]

Yes sorry Ed, I'll do today/tonight sometime and let you know.

I hesitated because though Atrium 1.7 is out, mature and available via Octopus, there's also the new 2.x Alpha 5 which looks tasty. I guess you want stable and proven rather than cutting edge?

[chris]

FWIW the features lists appear to be here:

• ​Features of Open Atrium 2.0
• ​Core Features 1.7

If I were you I'd be tempted to go for version 2 as that should aviod having a painful future upgrade from 1.7 to 2. But I don't know what features you need...

[ed]

I saw the upgrade pain too - from 1.7 to 2.0 - but it was my understanding that 2.0 needed D7?

[jim]

D7 will come as part of Atrium...

A 'platform' in Aegir speak is "Drupal core + Modules + Themes + Config + Libraries + anything else we need"... So D7 is a GOOD thing here, in that it's better than D6 and 2.x will have a longer life.

It comes down to your choice Ed -- the 1.7 will be installed in a few minutes as part of BOA, whist 2.x will need me to manually find the makefile and install that via Aegir. 2.x will have some bugs and unfinished things, whilst 1.7 will be solid but still the 'first version'.

Once the platform is on the server, any number of Atrium sites can installed on them.

An alternative is to install both and you have a play. Or you say which you'd prefer and I install that. It's not really a risk, since Aegir handles most of this.

[ed]

Go for the D7 install Atrium 2.0. Brilliant. And keep your time tracked on this ticket. I'm doing a maintenance tally soon...

[jim]

Done, account added for Ed and sent him notification -- check spam if you've not got it Ed.

I'll document this tonight, plus fix a few things needing attention.

Looks like lots to do/play with in there -- and you're gonna love Panopoly when you get into it (the whole site is panels-driven with pages having their own layouts & other goodies!)

[ed]

Sorry Jim, 502 error returned after much lack of connecting. screengrab attached.
ALSO: please can you call this:

'space.transitionnetwork.org'

thanks

[ed]

screengrab: 502 for spaces.tn.org

[jim]

502s were a result of Chris restarting the wrong PHP-FPM after doing work on #563 -- transient and not related to this ticket.

Renaming the site is a case of migrating in Aegir it when needed. I called it 'spaces' for two reasons:

1. I messed up and made an assumption when I created it, sorry.
2. Because (honestly!) the plural made more sense when the creating since Atrium can have as many spaces as required -- they're called as such on the site too.

So please carry on using the site, I'll change the url to space. from spaces. when I document the creation process.

I'll proceed as above, unless you say otherwise that my 2nd point is a good one and want 'spaces' after all!

[chris]

Replying to jim:

502s were a result of Chris restarting the wrong PHP-FPM after doing work on #563 -- transient and not related to this ticket.

That's not exactly right -- I didn't start the wrong one today, I haven't done that for some months now ;-)

We discovered today that when the server boots it starts the wrong php-fpm. After a boot you have to manually stop the wrong one and start the right one. I'm sorry it took me 10 or so mins to realise this had happened. I'm going to now document it on the wiki:PuffinServer page

[jim]

@Chris, no worries, apologies for casting aspersions! Interesting about the boot issue -- Babylon doesn't do that, services pop up and run ok first time when last rebooted. Is there any init.d changes you made etc?

[chris]

I think perhaps the right php-fpm wasn't started because second.sh was commented out? But I'm not sure why it didn't start or what should start it. I expect the wrong one starts simply because it's installed and configured? I'll try to answer these questions...

[chris]

php5-fpm is installed using a deb:

aptitude search php | grep fpm
i   php5-fpm                        - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting langu

The server is running at runlevel 2:

who -r 
         run-level 2  2013-06-20 09:39                   last=S

Both version of php-fpm are set to run at this runlevel:

ls /etc/rc2.d/ -lah | grep php
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   19 Jan 28 00:02 S01php53-fpm -> ../init.d/php53-fpm*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   18 Jun  9 12:23 S01php5-fpm -> ../init.d/php5-fpm*

So I have removed this sym link to prevent php5-fpm running after the next reboot:

rm /etc/rc2.d/S01php5-fpm

And updated the documentation here wiki:PuffinServer#php-fpm

[jim]

Right, ​http://space.transitionnetwork.org/ is where it's at now, not "spaces."...

I see you've been in and doing stuff Ed, how are you finding it?

Anyway, documentation on building the platform...

• I tried the makefile that comes with the site package, but both that make file and the build.sh file that comes with the code in the profiles/openatrium folder did not work... It's alpha.
• So I gave up 'being clever' and just did the basic way, like this:

1. Logged in, changed to the 'tn' user, went to the 'static/scratch' folder (my working area so I don't accidentally mash a working platform):

   local-computer:$ ssh ssh jim@puffin.webarch.net
   puffin:$ sudo -i
   puffin:# totn
   tn@puffin:~$ cd static/scratch
   

2. Downloaded the latest OpenAtrium release from ​https://drupal.org/project/openatrium, unzipped it, removed the downloaded file, finally moved the unzipped platform into the correct place in ~/static like so:

   tn@puffin:~/static/scratch$ wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/openatrium-7.x-2.0-alpha5-core.zip
   tn@puffin:~/static/scratch$ unzip openatrium-7.x-2.0-alpha5-core.zip
   tn@puffin:~/static/scratch$ rm openatrium-7.x-2.0-alpha5-core.zip
   tn@puffin:~/static/scratch$ cd ..
   tn@puffin:~/static/scratch$ mv scratch/openatrium-7.x-2.0-alpha5/ .
   

3. That's all the 'linux nerd' stuff done, over to Aegir where I logged in as my account.
4. Clicked 'Add platform', bottom right.
5. Set 'Platform name' to OpenAtrium 7.x-2.0-alpha5, and checked the path (just under the name box but editable) was auto-generated correctly from the name - it was.
6. No makefile (since we've already got a fully made platform downloaded, and set the two user accounts to be able to work with the platform.
7. Click save, wait for it to build.
8. Click 'Add site' in the tabs menu at the top of the page.
9. Set the 'Domain name' to spaces.transitionnetwork.org (NB wrong url, should be 'space.'); left Client as admin, Chose 'OpenAtrium?' platform; set 'Cron interval' to 1 hour; in 'Domain aliases' I added 'spaces.dev.transitionnetwork.org (this gives us access to the site in dev mode on that URL, if needs be).
10. Clicked save, waited, got emailed the link to the new site, logged in and set my password for the superuser account (available on request), and created Ed's account.

Finally, to correct the incorrect URL from "spaces." to "space.", I simply ran the 'Migrate' task on the site in Aegir, changing only the domain name.

Adding time for above, plus time to document above.

[jim]

Done... OK Ed?

[chris]

Could you make it HTTPS only? By, for example, redirecting all HTTP requests to HTTPS. I'd be happy to add this to the nginx configuration if you can tell me which file it should be added to.

[jim]

Best done though a module, and on D7 there's ​https://drupal.org/project/securelogin which is excellent, secure, 'just works' and I use it at work on every site we make.

$ cd ~/static/openatrium-7.x-2.0-alpha5
$ drush dl securelogin
No release history was found for the requested project (securelogin‎).

Hmmm. D.org must have issues, so got it myself and enabled it:

$ cd sites/all/modules
$ mkdir contrib
$ cd contrib
$ wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/securelogin-7.x-1.4.zip
--2013-06-23 22:52:19--  http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/securelogin-7.x-1.4.zip
Resolving ftp.drupal.org... 140.211.166.134
Connecting to ftp.drupal.org|140.211.166.134|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14027 (14K) [application/zip]
Saving to: “securelogin-7.x-1.4.zip”

100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 14,027      91.1K/s   in 0.2s    

2013-06-23 22:52:19 (91.1 KB/s) - “securelogin-7.x-1.4.zip” saved [14027/14027]
$ drush @space.transitionnetwork.org en securelogin
The following extensions will be enabled: securelogin
Do you really want to continue? (y/n): y
securelogin was enabled successfully.                                        [ok]

All good, except on ​http://space.transitionnetwork.org/admin/config/people/securelogin it says:

Secure Login module expects the Drupal $confhttps? setting to be at its default value: FALSE. Because it is currently enabled, secure logins cannot be fully implemented because Drupal sets insecure session cookies during login to the secure site.

So I edited /data/disk/tn/static/openatrium-7.x-2.0-alpha5/sites/space.transitionnetwork.org/local.settings.php to add this:

// JK - Required to make Secure Login (https://drupal.org/project/securelogin) work properly.
$conf['https'] = FALSE;

And logged out/in and the secure session is now working as expected.

[ed]

Thanks Jim - I've been in and added some stuff - it's either quite mysterious and/or pretty buggy; I know it's an alpha - so will set some time aside to do testing after my holiday - back in second week of July... cheers!

[jim]

Ok, well it's still alpha so I am happy to update the platform as new releases come out if you want... I'll document that here too, but basically it's a case of downloading the new platform, adding the 'Secure Login' module, then migrating the current site to the new platform. Around 10 mins...

Let me know if you want me to keep an eye out and update accordingly.

[ed]

Great. Please keep an eye out and update accordingly.

Please also keep your time on this ticket for this work.

[ed]

moving to minor - in maintenance

[ed]

further to phone call today - please update to the latest version - I know it's only beta 5 (?), but that's a good move onward for me to do some tinkering - hopefully there will move action over september, but let's have a look at the beta...

[jim]

Haven't forgotten about this but since Ed's away this can wait until his return -- that way we might get a later beta (currently beta3 -- see ​http://openatrium.com/download.

[jim]

Actually, on Drupal.org the version is up to beta 4: ​https://drupal.org/node/2077271

Soooooon...

[jim]

I've installed/created a new platform for spaces using the latest dev (beta 4 + some fixes)...

However, this is now blocked by ​#610 - Aegir migrate tasks hang on Drushrc load.

[ed]

they've sexed up their site and there's a new download...

[jim]

Yarp, 2.0 is out... I'll try to nail #610 on Sunday, then that'll get us moving on a number of fronts again.

[jim]

​http://space.transitionnetwork.org/ is up! WOO!

But all pages redirect to homepage. BOO!

It's a ​known issue, will try to resolve now.

[jim]

Haven't fixed this as yet... will debug tomorrow :(

[jim]

Something to do with all /admin and /node/add pages getting a 301 back to homepage -- we've seen this before and it's a Octopus thing.

[jim]

Fixed the redirect issue...

cd /data/disk/tn/static/openatrium-7.x-2.0/sites/space.transitionnetwork.org/modules
touch allow_anon_node_add.info
touch disable_admin_dos_protection.info

Which makes it a manifestation of the issues we saw on ​https://drupal.org/node/1994346 (cached). So it's not session 443 that is causing the issue as we thought, but something else causing a false positive around session cookie checking.

But in any case, OA is insalled. I've also added the forced HTTPS sessions:

cd /data/disk/tn/static/openatrium-7.x-2.0/
drush dl securelogin
drush space.transitionnetwork.org en -y securelogin

Finally, I added the following to /data/disk/tn/static/openatrium-7.x-2.0/sites/space.transitionnetwork.org/local.settings.php at the behest of the Secure Login module.

// Required for Secure Login module.
$conf['https'] = FALSE;

I've now made Ed's account and set him as an admin...

DONE!