Installing Drupal

The below example demonstrates the from-scratch setup of a Drupal application for local development. A similar process can easily be used to configure an environment of any other type. This assumes that Warden has been previously started via warden svc up as part of the installation procedure.

1. Create a new directory on your host machine at the location of your choice and then jump into the new directory to get started:

   mkdir -p ~/Sites/exampleproject
   cd ~/Sites/exampleproject
   

2. From the root of your new project directory, run env-init to create the .env file with configuration needed for Warden and Docker to work with the project.

   warden env-init exampleproject drupal
   

   The result of this command is a .env file in the project root (tip: commit this to your VCS to share the configuration with other team members) having the following contents:

   WARDEN_ENV_NAME=exampleproject
   WARDEN_ENV_TYPE=drupal
   
   WARDEN_WEB_ROOT=/
   
   TRAEFIK_DOMAIN=tdpl.test
   TRAEFIK_SUBDOMAIN=app
   DB_DISTRIBUTION=mariadb
   DB_DISTRIBUTION_VERSION=10.4
   NODE_VERSION=18
   COMPOSER_VERSION=2
   PHP_VERSION=8.2
   PHP_XDEBUG_3=1
   
   WARDEN_DB=1
   WARDEN_RABBITMQ=0
   WARDEN_REDIS=0
   
   RABBITMQ_VERSION=3.8
   
   WARDEN_SYNC_IGNORE=
   
   WARDEN_ALLURE=0
   WARDEN_SELENIUM=0
   WARDEN_SELENIUM_DEBUG=0
   WARDEN_BLACKFIRE=0
   
   BLACKFIRE_CLIENT_ID=
   BLACKFIRE_CLIENT_TOKEN=
   BLACKFIRE_SERVER_ID=
   BLACKFIRE_SERVER_TOKEN=
   

3. Sign an SSL certificate for use with the project (the input here should match the value of TRAEFIK_DOMAIN in the above .env example file):

   warden sign-certificate exampleproject.test
   

4. Next you’ll want to start the project environment:

    warden env up
   

   Warning

   If you encounter an error about Mounts denied, follow the instructions in the error message and run warden env up again.

5. Drop into a shell within the project environment. Commands following this step in the setup procedure will be run from within the php-fpm docker container this launches you into:

    warden shell
   

6. Initialize project source files using composer create-project and then move them into place:

    composer create-project drupal/recommended-project /tmp/exampleproject
   
    rsync -a /tmp/exampleproject/ /var/www/html/
    rm -rf /tmp/exampleproject/
   

7. Launch the Installation Wizard in your browser and follow the instructions:

   The new application will be at https://app.exampleproject.test/ (or app.what-you-called-your-project.test).

   The SQL Credentials that need to be configured are “db” as the host, and “drupal” as the username, password, and database.

   

Note

To completely destroy the exampleproject environment we just created, run warden env down -v to tear down the project’s Docker containers, volumes, etc.