Support for Aegir installs directly from the web interface

I have been having trouble with the beta2 release as well with Aegir I have got a platform installed however when I try and install a site to it I get these errors:

The external command could not be executed due to an application error.

Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error. Error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /var/aegir/platforms/commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev/profiles/commerce_kickstart/modules/contrib/message_notify/message_notify.module, line 75

Drush was not able to start (bootstrap) the Drupal database. Hint: This error often occurs when Drush is trying to bootstrap a site that has not been installed or does not have a configured database. Drush was attempting to connect to : Drupal version : 7.15 Site URI : chris1.shoeboxsites.com Default theme : garland Administration theme: garland PHP configuration : /usr/local/lib/php.ini Drush version : 4.6-dev Drush configuration: /var/aegir/platforms/commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev/sites/chris1.shoeboxsites.com/drushrc.php /var/aegir/platforms/commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev/drushrc.php Drush alias files : /var/aegir/.drush/chris1.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/server_localhost.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/server_master.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_commerce_kickstart7x2xdev.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/dev.leo.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_001.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/dev.chris1.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/chris3.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/dev.build.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/waggle-marketing.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/test1.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/eden-health-matters.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_Commerce715.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/freerangeartists.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_sb_brochure712v2.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/dev.chris.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_sb_brochure712v1.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/dev.commerce.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_spark7x10alpha4.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/test.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/chris2.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_commerce715v3.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/johnstone-clark-heating.shoeboxsites.com.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_sb_music715.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_commerce715v1.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/platform_hostmaster.alias.drushrc.php /var/aegir/.drush/hostmaster.alias.drushrc.php Drupal root : /var/aegir/platforms/commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev Site path : sites/chris1.shoeboxsites.com Modules path : sites/chris1.shoeboxsites.com/modules Themes path : sites/chris1.shoeboxsites.com/themes File directory path: sites/chris1.shoeboxsites.com/files %paths : Array You can select another site with a working database setup by specifying the URI to use with the --uri parameter on the command line or $options['uri'] in your drushrc.php file.

Any ideas?

http://drupal.org/node/1742618
http://drupal.org/node/1743428#comment-6376184

I managed to get it working by upgrading my local version of PHP which Aegir uses for Drush commands.

Full aegir support will require effort from our side.
I'll update the issue summary later.

+1

This breaks being able to use 'drush make http://drupalcode.org/project/commerce_kickstart.git/blob_plain/refs/hea...' . Why is that an improvement if you need to download the full repository first? Am I missing something?

Because that's how drupal.org requires make files to be structured nowadays.
See http://bojanz.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/distribution-drush-make for ways to get around this.

This should do the trick

api = 2
core = 7.x

projects[commerce_kickstart] = 2.x
projects[commerce_kickstart][type] = core

Check out how I do it: http://cgit.drupalcode.org/sandbox-theohawse-2157275/tree/ck7/build-ck7....
-it calls a stem makefile which grabs the install profiles separately.
Use that as the makefile in aegir and it should work pretty good.