Great work on VDD! I am running into an issue in two areas with Drupal 8.

1) when I try to install a new module it's asking me to enter my ftp information, and then when I enter my credentials to the box, update manager comes up prompting me to enter FTP credentials. This never happened when I used a webhost.

2) if I try to create an article and add an image, I get "The file could not be uploaded."

All I have done so far is "vagrant up" and installed drupal 8 according to the instructions provided.

Is there anything I'm missing here?

Thanks,

Scromie

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scromie commented

Has anyone had a chance to look at this?

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videographics commented

I agree. VDD is super-useful. But as far as I can tell, anyone using VDD is going to encounter the following warnings when trying to install a module from the modules page:

Failed to connect to the server. The server reports the following message:
Cannot connect to FTP Server, check settings

For more help installing or updating code on your server, see the handbook.
WARNING: You are not using an encrypted connection, so your password will be sent in plain text. Learn more.

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videographics commented

I've only encountered and tested this with D7. Unsure if this happens in D8.Here's how to fix this problem by installing ftp and enabling it for authenticated users:

Make sure your vagrant vm is running. Then:

vagrant ssh
sudo apt-get install vsftpd

Edit the ftp config file to enable authenticated users to ftp:

sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

Then uncomment the following lines:

local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES

Save the file. (Control-x, y, return) Restart ftp with:

sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

After this, you should be able to install modules from the modules page. Login with "vagrant" for the username and password if/when asked.

Obviously, it'd be best if we didn't have to do this.

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druplicate commented

This is not the preferred way to install modules as it's not secure.

The vast majority of developers use Drush. VDD includes Drush aliases to make it easy.

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videographics commented
Issue tags: +ftp, +sftp

On a local vm, this really shouldn't be a security issue. We're already running ssh with vagrant/vagrant and mysql with root/root. (Most of us are running nfs as well.) ftp isn't going to make a difference.

Yes, most of us use drush most of the time to install modules, but if installing from the modules page it's a valuable enough function to be included in drupal core, it should be supported here. If vdd's design goal is to create a seamless working dev environment for Drupal, it's pretty bad form to have it intentionally breaking a core capability of D7.