Take... 7? Gah! Drupal for local development

[maiki]

Here are some notes. Sheesh, I want in on that sweet Drupal action so much! Drupal 9 means all this junk code dropped and a great starting place to get started with the platform (it’s like Disney bought them and immediately wiped a bunch of stuff that everyone is pissed about but will ultimately make it better at what it is).

But damn, it is so difficult to get a Drupal site going. First of all the docs are all over the place, way too comprehensive. It is basically choose-your-own-adventure in web server config, but without any real guidance.

But that’s not all folks! I also run Fedora 32. For which Docker CE is not packaged, meaning 96% of all development tools fly out the window! Sheesh!

Anyhow, now I’m going to try something I’ve found fucking zer0 docs concerning: using Apps/Boxes - GNOME Wiki! to host a server image I can spin up as a dev VPS…

I know everyone says to keep all this stuff abstracted, but I think I can get by with just composer on a VPS. And if not, then I’m kinda not into it, because it leaves everyone out and that’s not fun software. So let’s see if Drupal is still fun software!

[maiki]

Our journey so far: installed a VM from an Ubuntu Server 20.04 image. I just did basic install options, nothing fancy.

So far:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install apache2

The IP for the VM shown in Boxes is http://192.168.122.10/, and boosh:

Fortunately Drupal uses a standard LAMP stack, so next gonna look up the PHP and DB packages to install.

[maiki]

I’m going with MariaDB, and according to https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements/database-server#s-mysql-mariadb-or-percona-server-recommended

Required MySQL 5.5.3/MariaDB 5.5.20/Percona Server 5.5.8 or higher with InnoDB as the primary storage engine, and requires the PDO database extension.

sudo apt install mariadb-server

And mariadb --version tells me: 10.3.22-MariaDB. Okey-dokey!

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Leave password blank, skip setting root password, and “yes” for the rest of the questions.

We’ll still need to create a database, but let’s jump over to PHP, because I like to get my LAMP ready before lighting it.

OMFG, didja see what I did there?!

[maiki]

Okay, we need PHP, a way for Apache to get up in PHP’s biz, and a way for PHP to whisper to MySQL’s Gattica-enhanced younger sibling:

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

php -v tells me PHP 7.4.3, so according to https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements/php-requirements 7.4 is the latest supported (with a link to the meta issue tracking PHP 8 coverage), so we’re good to go.

I’m betting I’m missing some PHP extensions, but all shall be revealed on installation, ですね。＾_＾

[maiki]

That’s kind of a bummer. It’s an opportunity, but gah I’ve got so much imposter syndrome to overcome…