By kaspanoombro on

Hello,

I did not found any instructions to install Drupal/CMS 2.0 without DDEV. Using you instructions to install DDEV it installs MariaDB but i wanted PostgreSQL, for example. 

So, if i want to choose my own options, i can't !

Tried to install without DDEV (Ubuntu in wsl2) but so many issues occurs and you documentation is a collections of links that point to each other and there is not visible proper documentation.

Even using you DDEV, in a company computer with several security rules implemented, your installation does not work properly when your script tries for example to write in the windows host host file.

 

⋅ Categories: Drupal 11.x

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ressa’s picture

ressa
he/him
commented

Thanks for creating an issue #3573548: Add documentation on installing Drupal CMS without using DDEV.

About DDEV and PostgreSQL, perhaps you missed this doc page? https://docs.ddev.com/en/stable/users/extend/database-types/

If you get DDEV-related errors, you should definitely create an issue in https://github.com/ddev/ddev/ so that it can get fixed.

jaypan’s picture

jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

DDev is not required, but it will make your life much, much easier, and it is highly supported.

It does also support Postresql as far as I understand.

Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.

kaspanoombro’s picture

kaspanoombro commented

Hello,

But where is the full documentation to install Drupal/CMS2.0 without DDEV?

thanks,

jaypan’s picture

jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

You probably won't find them - everyone is using DDev these days. Documentation is a community effort - if you can put together the steps of your process, it would help the next person who runs into your issue.

As to how to do it, you'll need to install a webserver, a database, and a PHP processor on your computer. You'll also need to install Composer for your command line. Then you'll need to set up a local domain in your system that points at the webserver. These are all things for which there is a lot of documentation out there on the web, it won't be Drupal specific, but it doesn't need to be - this is all the stuff outside Drupal. You will then run Drupal inside this stack.

That said, in my opinion it would almost always take way longer to figure out all that stuff, than to figure out how to install DDev.

The advantage of DDev is that DDev handles the entire stack for you, leaving you to only have to deal with Drupal. And you can even have multiple DDev instances, so if you're developing multiple sites they are each entirely isolated from each other.

You could follow this thread too, in case someone adds their own personal findings there: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal_cms/issues/3501402

Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.