By garvin on

Hello All,

I've installed Drupal 8 using instructions from (Composer to Install Drupal):

Using drupal-composer/drupal-project

To do the default install:

Run composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev my_site_name_dir --no-interaction

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Now it's time to install modules using Composer. I am not yet Git or Composer savvy.

Drupal Instructions say: "This needs to be executed at the root of your Drupal install but not at the same level as the core directory."

The "project name" folder   ( aka  my_site_name_dir )    is the first folder whose children contain any   are Drupal files.

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My question is what folder is considered to be "the root of your Drupal install"

1)  Is it the directory with the project name which I gave it: my_site_name_dir  ?

2)  …Or in my case the directory above "my_site_name_dir" which is "public_html"

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Here's a diagram:

public_html
              |
              |
            my_site_name_dir (project name)
            [   .editorconfig   .env.example  .git/   .gitattributes   .gitignore   .travis.yml                                        composer.json   composer.lock   config/   drush/   LICENSE                                                            load.environment.php   phpunit.xml.dist   README.md   robots.txt                                                scripts/   vendor/   web/   ]
                                    |
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                                  web

Thanks in advance :)

- garvin

⋅ Categories: Drupal 8.x

Comments

VM’s picture

VM commented

root of install is where index.php is

mmjvb’s picture

mmjvb commented

also called project folder. With my_site_name_dir/web being the folder called DocumentRoot, containing the index.php.

my_site_name_dir is the folder that contains your composer.json. cd into it and use "composer require" to add modules to your codebase.

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garvin commented

Thank you both!

VM, I too wondered about root being where the index.php was to be found but the instructions state "but not at the same level as the core directory." So that further confused me as I am not accustom schemas where directories are remapped.

mmjvb, thanks for getting me back on track and now I think I understand that "Drupal root" and "Document root" are two different things.

- garvin :)

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mmjvb commented

With the DocumentRoot called anything you want: docroot, web, html, public_html, ......
All trying to make clear that a domain is mapped to that folder. Which means its contents is available from internet.

The Project Directory, whatever you want to call it, is used in the "composer create-project" command. The name should be meaningful to identify your project. Whatever that may be. One of the folders would be DocumentRoot. When using composer it has composer.json, composer.lock and in most cases the folder vendor. Unfortunately, their existance doesn't mean composer is in use. You need to check the contents.