Drupal Installation & Overview

If you are starting development in Drupal then you can go with Ddev to configure a site on your local system. DDev is docker base tool which converts the docker's complex configurations into simple setup.  Lets start 

Requirements:

• Ubuntu/Mac/Windnow
• Docker is configured and working
• DDev is installed

Drupal Installation via Ddev: 

Most of the below details copy from https://www.drupal.org/docs/official_docs/en/_local_development_guide.html and converted into steps

Step 1:  export SITE_NAME=d9313

Step 2:  mkdir $SITE_NAME

Step 3:  cd $SITE_NAME

Step 4: ddev config --docroot web --project-name $SITE_NAME --project-type drupal9 --create-docroot

Step 5: ddev start
Note: Above command will download docker images on first run.

Step 6: ddev composer create "drupal/recommended-project"

Step 7: ddev composer require drush/drush

Step 8: ddev drush site:install --account-name=admin --account-pass=admin

Step 9: ddev launch

 

DDev some useful commands:

 

•  ddev describe( List the available containers for the current ddev instance.)
•  ddev ssh (Ssh to the web container.)
•  ddev export-db -f ./db.sql.gz (Take the site backup as gz format)
•  ddev import-db --src=./db.sql.gz (Import the database)
•  ddev list (List the all running ddev instances)
•  ddev restart(Restart current ddev instance)
•  ddev poweroff(Power off the all ddev instances)

 

 DDev drush some useful commands:

 

•  ddev drush cr(Clear Drupal cache)
•  ddev drush cim(Import the drush site configurations)
•  ddev drush cex (Export the  drush configurations)
•  ddev drush uli (One time login url if don't the admin password and want to login on the site)
   

Setup the Site Configurations path:

Once Drupal site is configure and accessible then update the site configuration path into settings.php. Find the config_sync_directory keyword in the file. If the path is not configured yet then update the path to  

$settings['config_sync_directory'] = '../config/syc'

 

Enable local development mode:

For local development it is recommend to enable the development mode. Please follow the below steps.

 Step 1: Uncomment the below lines in settings.php

  if (file_exists($app_root . '/' . $site_path . '/settings.local.php')) {
    include $app_root . '/' . $site_path . '/settings.local.php';
  }

  Step 2: Copy web/sites/example.settings.local.php to web/sites/default/settings.local.php

  Step 3: Update the web/sites/development.services.yml
 

   twig.config:
      debug: true
      auto_reload: true
      cache: false

 

Enable/Display Error Reporting:

 In your settings.php(sites/default/settings.php) or settings.local.php add the following code:

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);


$config['system.logging']['error_level'] = 'verbose';

On your productions or dev you can enable verbose by using below command:

drush config:set system.logging error_level verbose -y