Drupal Installation Guide.

Table of Contents

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• • Create Project Composer Command
  • To do a modified install
  • Configure Apache2
  • Virtual Hosts Configuration
  • Enable the Virtual Host and Rewrite Module
  • Restart Apache2 Server
  • Edit hosts file
  • Creating MySQL User
  • Creating Empty Database
  • Importing Existing Database
  • Exporting Database
  • Install Drupal with the standard profile
  • Export the current configuration outside of the webroot
  • Setting up Drush Aliases
  • Adding Pre-Commit Hook
  • Additional Reference

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Create Project Composer Command

composer create-project drupal/recommended-project d8cards

To do a modified install

If you want to modify some of the properties of the downloaded composer.json before composer install is executed, use the --no-install flag when running composer create-project. For example, it is possible that you want to rename the subdirectory 'web' to something else.

• To do that:

  Run composer create-project --no-install drupal/recommended-project d8cards Change directories to d8cards and edit the composer.json file to suit your needs. For example, to change the sub-directory from 'web' to something else, the keys to modify are the 'extra' sub-keys 'webroot' and 'installer-paths'. Run composer install to download Drupal 8 and all its dependencies.

Remember:

• Add development modules always to Composer with --dev, for example:

composer require --dev drupal/devel

• Check for available Drupal core and module updates:

composer outdated drupal/*

• All of your modules and themes can be updated along with Drupal core via:

composer update

• To update only Drupal core without any modules or themes, use:

composer update drupal/core-recommended --with-dependencies

Configure Apache2

sudo subl /etc/apache2/sites-available/d8cards.conf

Virtual Hosts Configuration

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin admin@d8cards.local
     DocumentRoot /var/www/d8cards/web
     ServerName d8cards.local
     ServerAlias www.d8cards.local *.d8cards.local
     <Directory /var/www/d8cards/web>
        Options +FollowSymlinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
     </Directory>

     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Enable the Virtual Host and Rewrite Module

sudo a2ensite d8cards.conf

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Restart Apache2 Server

sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

Edit hosts file

sudo subl /etc/hosts

Add the below line the host file

127.0.0.1 local.d8cards.local

Then open your browser and browse to the server domain name. You should see Drupal page at http://local.d8cards.local

Creating MySQL User

CREATE USER 'drupal'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'drupal'@'localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Creating Empty Database

sudo mysql -u drupal -p
create database d8cards_local;
exit;

Importing Existing Database

drush @site.alias sql-drop -y; drush @site.alias sql-cli < db-backups/[your-filename].sql

Or, if you have a GZIP:

gunzip -c file_name.sql.gz | drush @site.alias sqlc

or

drush @site.alias sqlq --file=db.sql.gz

Note that –file supports both compressed and uncompressed files.

Exporting Database

drush sql-dump --gzip --result-file=db-backups/[your-filename].sql

Install Drupal with the standard profile

drush si standard --site-name='Site Name' --account-name=admin --account-pass=YourPass --account-mail='admin@site.local' --sites-subdir=LocalDir --locale=en --db-url=mysql://[db_user]:[db_pass]@[ip-address]/[db_name]

for example :

drush si standard --site-name='D8cards Local' --account-name=admin --account-pass=admin --account-mail='admin@d8cards.local' --sites-subdir=local --locale=en --db-url=mysql://drupal:drupal@localhost/d8cards_local

Export the current configuration outside of the webroot

• Change the location of the configuration sync directory.

sudo subl web/sites/default/settings.php

• Change the last line to:

$settings['config_sync_directory'] = '../config/local';

Setting Up Public, Private and Temp directories

$settings['file_public_path'] = 'sites/local/files/public'; $settings['file_private_path'] = 'sites/local/files/private'; $settings['file_temp_path'] = 'sites/local/files/tmp';

Setting up Drush Aliases

Create a directory named drush outside webroot In drush/sites folder create a file named sitename.site.yml

• For example in local.site.yml file add the below code

    local:
      uri: local.d8cards.local

• Export the current configuration to create an initial set of YAML files.

drush @site.alias cex

Adding Pre-Commit Hook

• Run Code Sniffer automatically on each changed file before a commit.

Refer the link for pre-commit snippet

This pre-commit hook is designed to be used for Drupal 7 and 8 sites.

Download the pre-commit file. Save it as .git/hooks/pre-commit in your git repo. You need to ensure that the file is executable.

If you want this to be added to all new projects automatically, add it to your git init templates.

To install and PHP CodeSniffer for Drupal, please read the official documentation.

To see this working checking out this short YouTube video.

• You can skip executing the pre-commit script by using:

git commit --no-verify

Additional Reference

Set up Drupal 8

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