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Aegir CMS is provided as a tarred repligard package for Midgard and a tar package. Before getting started, be sure to check out the Documentation page.

Discussion and questions related to Aegir CMS should be handled on the mailing lists.

Please note that a working Midgard installation is required.

Current Release — Aegir CMS 1.0 RC1 (fixed)

Aegir-1.0-RC1.tar.bz2 (2.3 MB)

Tarred repligard package for Midgard

aegir-1.0beta-dirs.tgz (16 KB)

Directory structure tarball

Getting started

Untar aegir-1.0beta-dirs.tgz under /var/nadmin

Untar the repligard package:

$ bunzip2 Aegir-1.0-RC1.tar.bz2
$ tar xvf Aegir-1.0-RC1.tar.bz2
$ cd Aegir-1.0-RC1

Install packages using repligard:

$ repligard -a -i AegirCMS.xml.gz
$ repligard -a -i AegirSampleSite.xml.gz

Update the Midgard MySQL host table:

$ mysql midgard -umidgard -pmidgard
mysql> UPDATE host SET name="my.host.name" WHERE name="localhost";

Set the admin username and password:

mysql> UPDATE person SET username="admin",password="**password" WHERE id=1;

Ensure the correct VirtualHost entry in midgard-data.conf
Log in to Aegir at http://my.host.name:8001/aegir/

Aegir CMS needs to be run under a Fully-Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), i.e. www.domain.com. Aliases like localhost will not work.

Upgrading: Users upgrading from old Aegir CMS betas or Nightly Builds should remove the snippetdir /AegirCore/Localization before installing 1.0 RC1.

Revision history

2003-01-29: Fixed Aegir CMS 1.0 RC1 package released
2003-01-27: Aegir CMS 1.0 Release Candidate 1 released
2002-12-12: Aegir CMS 1.0 beta3 released
2002-11-05: Aegir CMS 1.0 beta2 released
2002-09-20: Aegir CMS beta 1.0 released

Aegir CMS is derived from Nadmin Studio. Older releases can be found at http://cms.polarmedia.no/midgard/