Aegir Hosting System

Aegir

Aegir Hosting System
Developer(s) Aegir Project[1]
Stable release 6.x-2.1 / April 24, 2014
Preview release 3.0-alpha1[2] / September 23, 2014
Written in PHP, JavaScript
Operating system Linux, BSD, Mac OS
Platform LAMP
Available in English
Type Web hosting control panel
License GNU General Public License
Website aegirproject.org

Aegir is a free and open source Unix based web hosting control panel program that provides a graphical interface designed to simplify deploying[3] and managing[4] Drupal web sites. Aegir is built on a standard LAMP stack, and Drush, a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal.[5] It extends Drush with various provisioning functions, and provides a Drupal-based front-end control-panel.

In addition to the GUI interface, Aegir can be accessed via the command line or an API, which enables the automation of many website-related system administration processes. Being based on Drupal and Drush, Aegir is highly extensible, and several contributed modules exist to extend its functionality.

History

Adrian Rossouw, a long-time contributor to the Drupal project, helped develop the original Hostmaster system for deploying websites. Since then, Hostmaster has evolved into the Aegir system and contributed significantly to the command-line toolkit, Drush.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Aegir Project: Committers for Provision
  2. ↑ "3.0-alpha1 release notes".
  3. ↑ "Drupal Voices 111: Miguel Jacq on the Aegir module". June 1, 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "Aegir hosting system". Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  5. ↑ "Drupal Voices 112: Antoine Beaupre on Drush". June 2, 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  6. ↑ "Drupal Voices 62: Adrian Rossouw on Aegir, Drush and the future of Drupal Distributions". October 15, 2009. Retrieved 17 March 2011.

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