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Arizona Quickstart
Demonstration/starter Drupal distribution and installation profile that packages various features consistent with community best practices and University of Arizona brand strategy.
A Complete Customized Drupal
AZ Quickstart is a complete customized version of the popular Drupal content management system, not an add-on to an existing Drupal-based web site. Previously, to start a new Drupal site you would prepare a web server and database, then install the core software following the instructions in its Installing Drupal document and the installation chapter in its user guide. This would produce a minimally functional web site with no content, which you could then customize by adding themes and modules to fit it to your needs. Increasingly, however, you can install Drupal distributions, which not only contain the core, but also complete sets of additions to make it almost immediately useful for a particular purpose, such as an online storefront. AZ Quickstart is the distribution that provides many of the features specific to the University of Arizona, and rather than an empty site, can include some demonstration content (which can nevertheless be turned off instantly).
How to Contribute
See our contributing document for detailed instructions on how to contribute including:
- What you'll need to get started
- How to create issues and pull requests
- How to submit a pull request
- Local development
Where to Install Your Quickstart Site
The university's Campus Web Services group provides ready-to-use sites based on Quickstart for anyone who isn't comfortable with web development or system administration. Behind the scenes, a web hosting service called Pantheon hosts these sites, so in cases where people require more control and flexibility in a Quickstart site than these can provide, there are ways they can also host it independently on Pantheon, and many important university sites are already there. However, there are many other options for hosting web sites based on Arizona Quickstart; the only caveat is that anyone following one of these has to maintain their responsibility for keeping the system and web site secure and up-to-date. A generic hosting option that has been around for many years is known as LAMP: the combination of the Linux operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP scripting language, so it is worth giving a more extensive example of using this, but many variations are common (for example, substituting Nginx for the Apache web server software).
System Requirements
Arizona Quickstart's system requirements are almost identical to Drupal's own requirements, in particular the requirements for Drupal 9. Some additional things that need emphasized or checked are:
- Make sure the system has enough memory: even if the running site consumes little, updates and installations are memory-intensive.
- Check that PHP's configuration allows it to use the memory (see the memory requirements section).
- Re-check that the required PHP extensions are added: on a recent system the usual packaging mechanism should suffice to add them (such as apt on Debian or Ubuntu versions of Linux).
- Check that the Apache configuration enables
mod_rewrite
, and the module letting it work with PHP. - Check the user and group of the running web server: in many Debian-derived Linux systems these will be
www-data
, but not on all (this information is needed for setting file and directory permissions later). - Install and configure the software as a normal (non-root) user with the ability to
sudo
when elevated privileges are needed; add this user to the same group that the web server uses (so you would see something likewww-data:x:33:normaluser
in the /etc/group file). - A recent version of Composer is a necessity, not an option — remove any previously installed but stale versions, and follow the https://getcomposer.org/download/ instructions to install it, or if upgrading is possible, try the command
sudo -H composer self-update --2
Web Server Configuration
If your Quickstart site will be exposed to public view, and is anything more
than an ephemeral development site, you should use TLS (SSL, the https://
rather than http://
in the URLs). There are now several easy and cheap ways to
do this, from getting InCommon certicates through the University, the
certificates available in AWS environments, or the free automatically renewable
Let's Encrypt certificates. The Apache default settings will generally need some
hardening (at least disabling obsolete protocols), but there are many guides on
how to do this and online tools that can help. It's
a good practice to wrap the configuration of the Quickstart site in Apache's
<VirtualHost>
directive, even if there will only be one on the server. There
are options to add security-related headers from within the Quickstart site
itself, but it doesn't hurt to set these in advance, using the Apache
configuration, with things like
The more general Drupal
web server requirements
are not particularly demanding. Make sure the web server is functioning properly
with a trivial static site before trying the Quickstart installation (an
index.html file stuck somewhere), but note that you should change Apache's
DocumentRoot
directive for a new location after the initial test: Quickstart's
DocumentRoot will be a directory created during installation (which can't
already exist).
Database Server Configuration
The main point of Drupal's database requirements is that it does not support old versions of the server software, but does support several different variations in the software itself. Quickstart requires configuration with a MySQL or similar database, and a user set up within the database server with full rights to access this. In several recent Linux distributions the ultimate system administration account (root) has full administrative access to the database server without needing a password, but there is no sane way to pass these privileges into Quickstart's configuration, and in any case it is a best practice to create a dedicated administrative user for this purpose. A typical setup would look like:
Some old code examples combine the CREATE USER
and GRANT
in a single
command, but MySQL 8 no longer supports this. WITH GRANT OPTION
might be
unnecessary in practice, but is not implied by ALL
.
Install Using Composer
It's a good idea to make a directory where the non-privileged system user can write, but where the web server can also access. So for example
It should then be possible to install Quickstart directly in this directory:
This should produce a long list of messages, looking something like
This will have created a top-level directory (azqs
in this example), within
which there is a web
subdirectory serving as the actual DocumentRoot for the
web server. It's important to update the Apache configuration at this point to
reflect this, so in the example there would be a
DocumentRoot /var/www/drupalsites/azqs/web
directive, and a corresponding
<Directory /var/www/drupalsites/azqs/web>
(to set things like AllowOverride All
there).
Once Apache has restarted with the new configuration, there are two ways to
complete the installation. The web site itself will display a variation on the
usual initial Drupal installation form (headed “Arizona Quickstart”), allowing
you to fill in various fields with details such as the database user and
password; but the initial build includes the popular drush utility (down in
the vendor subdirectory), so a purely command-line installation is possible with
something like
In this example, note that the database credentials match those set previously
(other details shown here should also be customized with your own settings). One
messy detail at the moment is that you may have to manually create a top-level
config/sync
directory (so /var/www/drupalsites/azqs/config/sync in this
example). If all goes well, you will be able log in to the new site with the
username and password you have set. One thing that will need immediate attention
is the report at /admin/reports/status#error
once you have logged in. There
will probably be a Trusted Host Settings error, needing a manual change to your
settings file, and notice of some directory permissions that need relaxed to
allow the web server to write there.
Using Xdebug with Lando and VSCode
This repository contains the necessary config to run Xdebug inside a lando application container.
To start a debugging session, perform the following steps:
- In VSCode, go to the extensions tab.
- Type
@recommended
in the search bar. - Install all workspace recommended extensions.
- Start lando with
lando start
. - Start Xdebug with
lando xdebug-on
. - At the bottom left of your VSCode window, click the little green icon.
- Choose
Attach to Running Container...
and select theappserver
for your running lando instance. - Once the new VScode window pops up, go back to the extensions tab.
- Type
@recommended
in the search bar. - Install all workspace recommended extensions.
- In VSCode, go to the debugging tab.
- Click the green triangle next to
Listen for XDebug
at the top right. - In VSCode, go back to the code tab.
- Set any desired breakpoints.
- You may now proceed with debugging.
Distribution update
When updating your codebase on an existing site, you should always check if there are distribution updates that need to be applied.
This can be done by users with the administrator role on your website at this
path: /admin/config/development/distro
You should be able to see the upstream updates to be applied, after updating your codebase by employing the "Merge" strategy available under the "Advanced" accordion on that page.
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