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When setting up a Drupal site, we spend a lot of time on site configuration: Roles, Permissions, Content Types, Menus, Vocabularies, etc. In most CMS's, all these changes are stored in their databases, making it hard to deploy, track, reuse and rollback important changes. And of course, once we can have our site configuration in code, we can keep track of it using a version control system, like Git. In the following tutorial, I'll explain how to set up git and use drush commands to track your configuration. I'll assume that you already have Drupal installed, and that you've created your Git repository if you haven't done this before, just create an account on GitHub and run through the steps of creating a repo.

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• How to use the Drupal 8 configuration system
• Configuration or State?
• Drupal 8 and Configuration Synchronization
• Drupal 8 – Differences between Configuration API & State API
• config:export:entity
• PSA: Config Split and Drupal 9.3
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How to use the Drupal 8 configuration system

In the previous modules, you performed a number of configuration steps for your Drupal site. In this module, you will set up your Drupal installation to make it live. In the steps below, you will configure a web server, download the Drupal code, and configure your Drupal settings. At the end of this module, you will have a live Drupal site that you can access from your web browser. Please review the steps in the previous module if you need to reconnect to your EC2 instance via SSH.

To run Drupal, you need to run a web server on your EC2 instance. A web server is a process that listens for HTTP requests, handles the request, and returns a response to users. The open source Apache web server is the most popular web server used with Drupal. You need to change a setting in your Apache configuration file. Open the file with nano with the following command:. You can see that your Apache web server is working and that your security groups are configured correctly by visiting the public DNS of your EC2 instance in your browser.

Go to the EC2 Instances page and find your instance. Next, download and uncompress the Drupal software by running the following commands in your terminal:. Change into the drupal directory and copy the files into the Apache root using the following commands.

Your Drupal site is almost ready. In the next step, you will go through the Drupal site configuration wizard to create your site. Time to create your site.

Once again, go to the EC2 Instances page and find your instance. Note: You may have issues running the Drupal set up process with certain configurations of Google Chrome. If you have problems, try using a different web browser to set up Drupal. On the Choose profile screen, choose the Standard installation profile and click Save and continue. Select the database type that corresponds with the database engine you selected in Amazon RDS.

In the Drupal setup wizard, enter your configuration for Database name , Database user , and Database password. Then, click the Advanced options arrow to expand the options. In the Host field, enter the value for your RDS endpoint. Click Save and continue. This will take a moment as Drupal creates your database tables and installs the necessary modules. This setup will enable you to scale with low maintenance, allowing you to focus on what matters most to you.

In the next module, you will clean up the resources you created in this module and see some next steps. Learning Paths on AWS:. Creating a database with RDS. Creating an EC2 instance. Configuring your RDS database. Configuring Drupal on EC2. Clean up and next steps. Time to Complete Module: 15 Minutes. To install Apache on your EC2 instance, run the following command in your terminal:.

You should see some terminal output of the necessary packages being installed. There is a block about a third of the way in the file that looks as follows:. The Options directive is both complicated and important. To start the Apache web server, run the following command in your terminal:. Enter this value into your web browser, and you should see an Apache test page.

Step 2: Configure Drupal. In this step, you will install the Drupal software and set up the configuration. Then, restart the Apache service. Step 3: Set up Drupal site. Enter this value into your web browser.

You should set the beginning of the Drupal setup wizard. Choose the language you prefer and click Save and continue. After installation is finished, enter the configuration for your site. After entering your configuration, hit Save and continue to complete setup of your Drupal site.

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Configuration or State?

In my DrupalCon keynote in Chicago , I talked about the key initiatives that I believe we should focus on for Drupal 8 core. One of those key initiatives that I talked about was configuration management. For some, configuration management is a bit of an abstract term. In short, it refers to a mechanism for handling configuration changes.

Drupal 8 and Configuration Synchronization

Last month at the Central Denver Drupal meeting , Nick Switzer from Elevated Third showed how they are using a structured spreadsheet format for describing their Drupal configuration in a way that makes it easy to build. They based their spreadsheet format on a template Palantir published a while ago, and someone mentioned Lullabot has been using something similar. This looked to me a lot like what we were doing at Aten, even though we had missed the de facto standard that was developing. We are now using that de facto standard. This was particularly interesting to me because I've been doing a lot of work lately around declarative interfaces and standardized Drupal configuration. Spreadsheets are declarative and CINC has a working YAML import, so when we got to the question and answer portion of the presentation, I knew exactly what I wanted to ask: "Why are we still building Drupal sites manually when these spreadsheets contain everything we would need to automate it? No one offered a reason not to automate this process, so I volunteered to present at this month's meeting and show an automated process that did not yet exist. I have since built that process. It still needs a lot more testing and bug fixes, but it's already a compelling alternative to the traditional Drupal site building process. Sheet2Module takes a Google spreadsheet and produces a Drupal module that will create the configuration described therein.

Drupal 8 – Differences between Configuration API & State API

Introduction to the Drupal integration. Installing the GatherContent module. Configuring the module. The integration allows you to quickly migrate mapped content from GatherContent to Drupal. Content can be imported as any sort of node content type.

config:export:entity

Drupal Career Online Calendar. I've been a big fan of Drupal 8's configuration system since the beta-days of Drupal 8, and even more so now as the contributed module ecosystem around it has matured. I've been using the Config Readonly module from the very beginning to "lock down" configuration on production environments in order to help enforce developer workflows. Using the Config Readonly module is a bit of a double-edged sword. On one hand, it really helps in helping get developers accustomed to making configuration changes on local, then exporting them using Drupal 8's configuration system, committing them to the repository, and then moving them up through the project's defined deployment workflow.

PSA: Config Split and Drupal 9.3

How a Drupal site works is governed by a series of configuration items stored in the database. Modules and themes can plug into this system and extend it to create their own configuration items. When you change something in a Drupal site it is stored in the configuration so the change is made permanent. The configuration in Drupal lives in the database, but it can also be exported to the file system and stored as a bunch of files. Changes to these files can then be imported into Drupal in order to change the active configuration on the site. This is a really powerful concept and gives the ability for developers to launch new features on a site by importing altered configuration files. All they need to do is change the configuration, export that change to the file system and deploy the change to the remote server. The best practice is to export your configuration to the file system outside of the webroot, which means that the configuration files are not visible from the site.

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There are some changes in the system for storing configuration data in Drupal 8. The new system facilitates the import and export of the configuration. The default configuration is supplied with modules, themes and stored in YAML files for example: image.

Sometimes during development, a chicken and egg situation happens when business logic intersects with Drupal's mechanisms. Now, all of the entity and field structures can be handled via Drupal 8's Configuration API , but since the client will install this site a number of times, we would like to provide some baseline taxonomy terms at the start. If the field's configuration has not been imported before the module is enabled, then that field's data will not be saved. There are examples found here and here describe programmatically importing configurations from yaml files, but when I tried their approach, I received an error: Base table or view not found. Which seemed to indicate Drupal is detecting field configuration and so it's assuming the database table has been created.

In the previous modules, you performed a number of configuration steps for your Drupal site. In this module, you will set up your Drupal installation to make it live. In the steps below, you will configure a web server, download the Drupal code, and configure your Drupal settings. At the end of this module, you will have a live Drupal site that you can access from your web browser. Please review the steps in the previous module if you need to reconnect to your EC2 instance via SSH. To run Drupal, you need to run a web server on your EC2 instance. A web server is a process that listens for HTTP requests, handles the request, and returns a response to users.

The configuration API in Drupal 8 and 9 provides a central place for storing configuration data. This is the place where modules and themes can store their data. So, for example, if a module has the settings form, the submitted form values are stored in the configuration. In the image below you can see the Redirect module's settings form and the config data for the form.