With the use of the drush command 'hosting-import', we are capable of 'refreshing' the frontend system with changes that may have been directly applied from the command line using Provision.

Examples of this include verifying/building a platform, installing and migrating sites. hosting-import magically 'discovers' these changes and syncs the frontend in to match.

I have noticed that after running provision-delete on a site, even though we retain an alias for the site in ~/.drush (by design or bug?), running hosting-import doesn't mark the site as deleted in the frontend.

This appears to be because there's nothing in the backend that really identifies the site as having been deleted: it's simply gone, other than the alias.

If we are going to keep the alias around (if not, we should be running drush @foobar provision-save --delete in a post_delete hook in my opinion, but that can be a separate ticket..), then we should be changing the 'site_enabled' status to 'false' or something more specific like 'deleted', that might be able to communicate this change to the frontend.

Setting site_enabled to 'false' and running hosting-import probably isn't ideal, it might be considered 'disabled' (I haven't actually tried this yet though).

Comments

jmcclelland’s picture

Trying to delete the site from the front end after you have provision-delete'ed the site via the command line gives an error.

Is this an acceptable work around?

UPDATE hosting_site SET status = -2 where nid in (SELECT nid FROM node WHERE title = '$uri');

Or, does deleting the site from the front end make any other changes?

jmcclelland’s picture

Also... seems as though you need:

DELETE FROM hosting_context WHERE nid in (SELECT nid FROM node WHERE title = '$uri')

lieb’s picture

For a site:

drush @site provison-delete

Does seem to leave the front-end in a state of disarray. I tried various hosting-tasks but was never able to get the front-end happy until I deleted the site node and made sure the database was cleaned up.

I then created another site and tried:

drush @hostmaster hosting-task @site delete

This worked great. The site was deleted from the front-end and the back-end.

My assumption is that provison-delete should only be used on sites, or platforms, that have NOT been imported into the front-end.

ergonlogic’s picture

Version: 6.x-2.x-dev » 7.x-3.x-dev
Issue summary: View changes

New features need to be implemented in Aegir 3.x, then we can consider back-porting to Aegir 2.x.

SocialNicheGuru’s picture

I am having a problem with the UI right now. As user 1 with admin access I get access denied.

doing this from the command line is great.

I would like to have a way to reflect it in the front end also