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Hosting WordPress

EXPERIMENTAL work in progress. Use at your own risk.

This module is not officially supported. No security announcement will be published if an issue is found. See 'support' for more information.

See: https://www.drupal.org/node/1044692

Requirements

  • Aegir 3 (7.x-3.x)
  • Web server: nginx (Apache might work, but not well tested)
  • Lets Encrypt with hosting_https

The provision_symbiotic module is recommended. It provides a few workarounds for the nginx vhost template.

The aegir_ansible module is recommended if using https. This module will automatically write a domains-wp.txt file to regenerate https certificates with letsencrypt. Currently a cron is not automatically setup. See the https section below.

This module assumes that Hosting Https is used, with Lets Encrypt. Previous attempts to supporting other kind of setups would cause odd bugs, and it is not something we need, so we removed it.

Installation

IMPORTANT: run all the following commands as the 'aegir' user ('sudo -i -u aegir' or 'su -c /bin/bash aegir').

Copy the hosting_wordpress module in your ~/hostmaster-7.x-3.x/sites/example.org/modules directory:

cd ~/hostmaster-7.x-3.x/sites/example.org/modules/
git clone https://github.com/mlutfy/hosting_wordpress.git

Enable the hosting_wpplatform and hosting_wpsite modules:

drush @hostmaster en hosting_wpsite

Run a 'verify' task on the Hostmaster so that Aegir does the magic include in ~/.drush/drushrc.php (c.f. do#2300537):

drush @hostmaster provision-verify

Make sure your Aegir user has a ~/.profile file, so that the .bashrc is read when using sudo -i -u aegir:

cp -i /etc/skel/.profile ~/

Composer adds its 'bin' directory to the $PATH, which makes it possible to use the 'wp' command easily.

Install wp-cli using composer (this should create a sylink in ~/.composer/vendor/bin/wp)

cd ~/
composer global require wp-cli/wp-cli

Alternatively, if wp is not found, add the composer path manually to your .bashrc:

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

Warning

Because of limitations in the integration with provision_customhtaccess (which lets developers inject custom rules in their nginx configuration), this module assumes that you trust the developers who have access to the site-specific directory of their site.

If a file called sites/example.org/nginx-custom.conf exists, it will be included by the nginx configuration.

An incorrect nginx configuration can cause problems with restarting nginx, potentially provide a path towards privilege escalation, etc.

How to test

  • Create a new platform on your filesystem, ex: mkdir /var/aegir/platforms/wordpress-4.5/; cd /var/aegir/platforms/wordpress-4.5/; wp core download
  • Create a new WP Platform (node/add/wpplatform)
  • Create a new WP Site from there.
  • Access the URL of your new site.
  • You can also use wp-cli in a site context, using, for example: "drush @mysite.example.org wp user list"

Known issues

See: https://github.com/mlutfy/hosting_wordpress/issues

How it works

  • provision_wordpress and hosting_wordpress implement new entities for the 'wpplatform' and 'wpsite' (highly inspired from 'platform' and 'site').

  • while it would be great to re-use the platform/site from Aegir, they make too many assumptions related to Drupal.

  • wpplatform verify creates a platform/example/wp-config.php file based on wp-config-sample.php, but uses the vhost variables so that we can install multiple sites in the same platform.

Https

This module works a bit differently from hosting_https. It still assumes that the module has been enabled and is used on the main Aegir frontend, but works more closely to how dehydrated works.

As an admin, to enable https on a site:

  • Make sure that "hosting https" is enabled on the Aegir frontend (i.e. you can access your aegir instance with https, ex: https://aegir.example.org).
  • Create a new WordPress site.
  • Run 'Verify' on the new site (eventually this will run automatically).

Technically:

  • When sites are verified, it checks if an https certificate is already available. If so, it assumes that the vhost supports and redirects to https.
  • If the 'aegir ansible' module is installed, it fetches a list of sites (and aliases) from the inventory and writes a 'domains-wp.txt' file in /var/aegir/config/letsencrypt/.
  • If 'hosting_https' seems to be enabled (well, if the above directory exists), it will assume that sites must be https, and will generate a certificate for it.

You can then configure a cron to run daily:

/var/aegir/config/letsencrypt/script -c -f /var/aegir/config/letsencrypt/config-wp

You can also run the above to debug if a certificate is not renewing correcly.

The config-wp file should be generated if empty. If not, you can create it manually:

WELLKNOWN="/var/aegir/config/letsencrypt.d/well-known/acme-challenge"
DOMAINS_TXT="/var/aegir/config/letsencrypt/domains-wp.txt"
PARAM_CERTDIR="/var/aegir/config/letsencrypt.d/"

This module will also attempt to run dehydrated when a new site is created, using the above command.

CiviCRM

See: https://drupal.org/project/hosting_civicrm

Support

Feel free to send patches using the issue queue on Github.

Commercial support is available through Coop SymbioTIC:
https://www.symbiotic.coop

Copyright and license

Provision Wordpress
(C) 2015-2022 Mathieu Lutfy mathieu@symbiotic.coop

Distributed under the terms of the GNU Affero General public license v3 (AGPL).
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
    License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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