Releases for Hosting

Hosting is a component of the Hostmaster system. It provides the front end, and a layer of glue that communicates with the back end provided by the Provisioning framework. It provides a complete interface for customizing aspects of your hosting environment.

About Hostmaster

The Hostmaster system is a modular, extensible site instance manager, that allows you to manage many Drupal sites through it's Drupal based user interface. New sites are created simply by creating a new Site node. New services and features can be enabled by simply adding new modules to the system. More information is available on our Project Goals and Overview pages on our hm2 group on g.d.o.

About this release

This release fixes some documentation and user experience issues. More information can be found on the Project Roadmap wiki page.

Not in this release:

The primary feature missing is support for multiple install profiles, and more work needs to be done on installation, documentation and user experience. This release is not production ready, so please do not install it outside of a testing environment.

Bugs Fixed:
275953 - Implement a global.inc to set up important $conf variables like the file path
275741 - Add documentation about httpd.conf requirement to wizard
278632 - tell the user at what time the changes will be effective (patch by anarcat)
275735 - Queue configuration is using the wrong property in display of total items.
275856 - Missing hook_perm in hosting_task.module, so users other than uid 1 can't create new tasks

Hostmaster was developed by Bryght / Raincity Studios and partners.

Hosting is a component of the Hostmaster system. It provides the front end, and a layer of glue that communicates with the back end provided by the Provisioning framework. It provides a complete interface for customizing aspects of your hosting environment.

About Hostmaster

The Hostmaster system is a modular, extensible site instance manager, that allows you to manage many Drupal sites through it's Drupal based user interface. New sites are created simply by creating a new Site node. New services and features can be enabled by simply adding new modules to the system.

More information is available on our Project Goals and Overview pages on groups.drupal.org/hm2.

About this release

This alpha release features an entirely new installation wizard, with a contextual help framework that adjusts itself based on your configuration. This release will allow you to deploy, disable, enable, delete, backup and restore sites to a previous backup. Hostmaster will now also recognize sites you already have installed and import them to be managed. Numerous user interface and documentation improvements have also been made and all known critical bugs have been fixed.

More information can be found on the Project Roadmap wiki page.

Not in this release:

The primary feature missing is support for multiple install profiles, and more work needs to be done on installation, documentation and user experience. This release is not production ready, so please do not install it outside of a testing environment.

Bugs Fixed:
#272970 - Broken queue configuration.
#273007 - Do not block the queue on failed tasks
#237555 - Implement the ability to restore a previous backup
#273003 - install action doesn't get run in main queue
#272480 - Task perhaps a better name for 'action'
#234398 - Wrong suggestions for config and backup paths
#273295 - Simple hosting setup hook for setting up crontab

Hostmaster was developed by Bryght / Raincity Studios and partners.

This is an initial, ALPHA release. We will be issuing new releases approximately weekly for the next several weeks as we converge on a feature set and interface for an initial production release.