Known issues in Acquia Cloud¶

Some versions of the Rules Conditional module are incompatible with PHP 7.2¶

After upgrading to PHP 7.2, Drupal 7.x applications using the Conditional Rules module display errors similar to the following:

PHP Fatal error:  Declaration of RulesRuleUI::form(&$form, &$form_state, $options = Array) must be compatible with RulesActionContainerUI::form(&$form, &$form_state, $options = Array, $iterator = NULL)

Workaround: Upgrade to the 7.x-1.0 version of the Conditional Rules module. For more information, see issue #2959426 on Drupal.org.

Older versions of Drupal 7 are incompatible with PHP 7.2¶

Only Drupal 7 versions of 7.61 or greater are compatible with PHP 7.2. When you create or import a Drupal 7 website on Acquia Cloud, ensure you select a compatible version of PHP.

Memcache configuration and upgrades for Drupal 8 requires additional steps¶

Although Acquia recommends the use of the Memcache API and Integration module with Drupal 8-based applications, the module is undergoing rapid development. Before you upgrade the Memcache API and Integration module, review Using Memcached and the README.txt file in with the module for updated installation and configuration instructions.

PHP 7 deprecates the memcache class¶

The php-memcached extension provides Memcached support in PHP 7 environments, and the memcached PHP class for interacting with Memcached storage. The extension does not provide the memcache (no d) class previously provided by the PECL memcache extension in PHP 5.x environments.

This change will not affect most users, as the Memcache API and Integration module supports both classes. However, your application may use other tools relying on the deprecated memcache class, which can cause website issues if you upgrade PHP to version 7. SimpleSAMLPHP, for example, is still affected by this issue.

Using SimpleSAMLphp with PHP 7.2 displays errors in log files¶

Using SimpleSAMLphp on a website hosted on Acquia Cloud using PHP 7.2 may see entries in their PHP log files similar to:

PHP Deprecated: The each() function is deprecated. This message will be suppressed on further calls.

These warnings are harmless and will be removed in a future release of Acquia Cloud.

The New Relic interface displays incorrect Memcache response time data¶

When using New Relic Application Performance Monitoring (APM), the New Relic interface may display unusually high response times for Memcache.

Workaround: Install the New Relic contributed module for Drupal to ensure your application reports Memcache values correctly.

Acquia Cloud notification API doesn’t display real-time results¶

The Acquia Cloud notification API doesn’t display real-time results. It typically returns a response within seconds, but sometimes can take several minutes to reflect the current state of the platform.

Acquia Cloud continues to display terminated pipelines jobs¶

Jobs in the Acquia Cloud pipelines feature terminate after 60 minutes, but may continue to display in the Acquia Cloud interface for up to two hours.

Acquia Cloud displays a zlib “freed prematurely” message when inspecting tasks¶

When inspecting the output of any successful or failed task, the final line is: zlib(finalizer): the stream was freed prematurely. This message can be ignored.

The Backups page may not display all available backups¶

The Backups page in the Acquia Cloud interface lists recent backups for the Acquia Cloud environment. However, there is a delay between the time when Acquia Cloud creates a backup and when the Backups page displays it. As a result, the page may not yet display the most recently created backups, or display older backups that are no longer available for download or for restoring the database.

Workaround: You can connect to your server using SSH, SFTP, SCP, or rsync, and download the backup files from the /mnt/files/[site].[env]/backups directory. For more information, see Downloading database backups from the command line.

Using the Acquia Cloud API to download backups with ELBs present results in failures¶

When downloading database backups using the Acquia Cloud API v2, users will experience failures if an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is present.

Workaround: If the ELB isn’t in use, file a Support ticket and request to have the ELB removed.

The server resize Cancel button does not always work as expected¶

In the legacy Acquia Cloud interface, when a user clicks Resize and then clicks Cancel, occasionally the cancel button does not dismiss the dialog box.

XML is not an acceptable file type in Support tickets¶

The acceptable file listing on the customer-facing ticket submission page lists XML as an acceptable file type, but XML files are not accepted for upload.

Workaround: Place the XML in a .zip file, and then attach the .zip file to the ticket.

The active domain for an environment can’t be changed¶

The active domain for an environment defaults to the first bare domain name, with or without the www prefix, and cannot be changed. Environments containing no top-level custom domains use the Acquia default domain as the active domain.

Custom IdP authentication causes 403 error on Acquia Cloud pipelines feature¶

Users authenticated into cloud.acquia.com using custom identity provider integration receive a 403 error when attempting to authenticate into the Acquia Cloud pipelines feature and the pipelines client.

Environment variables starting with $ followed by a number are removed¶

When using environment variables in the Cloud UI, starting a sequence with $ followed by a number removes the first two characters.

For example, adding $23456 as an environment variable results in 3456.

Workaround: When using the environment variable in your code, manually prepend the first two characters to the variable. Acquia recommends validating your code to prevent any application issues when the issue is resolved.

Unicode characters and emoji are not supported in branch names¶

If a branch name contains a Unicode character, such as an emoji, users will receive a Failure due to fatal system error message when attempting to switch to that branch. This error affects all Acquia Cloud systems, including the pipelines feature.

Git checkouts fail after reporting non-existent changes to binary files¶

Git checkouts fail with the following error when non-text files contain a specific byte sequence and are not explicitly defined as binary files: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout. Please, commit your changes or stash them.

Workaround: Edit the following section of your .gitattributes file:

# Auto-detect text files, ensure they use LF.
*         text=auto eol=lf

and then make one of the following changes:

• Remove the line beginning with *.
• Remove the eol=lf text.
• Ensure that a specification line is added for every binary file extension used in your repository.

Deployed branches or tags can’t be deleted¶

Acquia Cloud doesn’t allow you to delete branches currently deployed to an environment. If you try to delete a branch from the command line, an error message like the following displays:

remote: Operation rejected: remote: Git branch or tag test_branch cannot be
deleted because it is currently deployed to testsite.prod

Acquia Cloud displays an error message when pushing code to Git¶

When attempting to push code, some users may encounter error messages like the following example if the root account owns a directory, instead of the siteuser account:

remote: error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository
database ./objects

Contact Acquia support to correct the directory’s ownership settings.

Deployment keys must be associated with a user account¶

Acquia Cloud does not support the use of deployment keys (machine keys) that are not associated with an individual user account. All SSH keys must be associated with a user account.

Workaround: Create a user account to associate the deploy key as described in Deployment keys and Acquia Cloud.

Acquia Connector 8.x-1.17 causes error during cron runs¶

Upgrading to Acquia Connector 8.x-1.17 introduces the following error and may interfere with cron runs:

Call to a member function getEditable() on null

Workaround: Acquia recommends reverting to Acquia Connector 8.x-1.16.

See Upgrading to acquia_connector-8.x-1.17 can throw error “Call to a member function getEditable() on null” during cron runs for more information.

Acquia Connector requests can time out¶

Drupal websites connected to Acquia subscription, will send heartbeat requests during each cron run. By default, cron runs at the beginning of each hour, which can cause the Acquia subscription service to receive thousands of simultaneous connections across all subscriber websites, causing some requests to timeout.

Workaround: If your subscription service is experiencing timeouts, Acquia recommends you modify your cron runs to not begin at the start of the hour.

The Acquia Connector module conflicts with Remote stream wrapper module¶

The Acquia Connector module has a conflict with the Remote stream wrapper module, which is listed on the Modules to use with caution on Acquia Cloud page.

Workaround: Apply this patch, available on Drupal.org.

You cannot use Drush to update your Drupal 8.4 or greater websites¶

You must use Composer to build websites running Drupal versions 8.4 or later. Updating using Drush will no longer be possible.

Using vendored Drush may disable some Drush commands¶

Including Drush in an Acquia Cloud application branch may create a conflict between the version installed in the vendor directory and the version installed in Acquia Cloud, disabling some Drush commands. Most notably, it disables Install distribution, which allows you to install a different version of Drupal into the deployed branch.

Workaround: Modify the existing branch by removing Drush from the branch you want to install a Drupal distribution into, or create a new branch without the Drush dependency.

Drush is generally found in one of the following directories:

• vendor/drush
• docroot/vendor/drush

You can use Composer to remove Drush by executing the following command:

composer remove drush/drush

See Vendored Drush known issue for additional details.

Drush 9 is incompatible with certain Acquia Drush commands¶

The following Drush commands for use with Acquia Cloud require you to use Drush 8 instead of Drush 9:

• ah-db-backup: Drush command for creating a database backup from the command line.
• ah-db-import: Drush command for importing databases from the command line. For more information, see Downloading database backups from the command line or Importing your database.
• ah-site-archive-import: Drush command for importing a website archive file, as described in Importing an existing application using Drush.
• drush archive-dump: Drush command for creating a complete archive file of your application, as described in Backing up your application.

Drush 9 supports only websites built with Composer¶

Drush 9 requires your Drupal 8 website to be built with Composer, with Drush listed as a dependency.

Using Drush 9 may display error messages¶

If you are using Drush 9 in an Acquia Cloud environment, Acquia Cloud may display the following errors, such as:

• Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/var/www/site-php//D8--[sitename]-settings.inc'
• Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error.

Workaround: To determine if this Drush 9-based behavior is affecting your use of the product, execute the following commands from a command prompt:

drush9 php-eval 'var_export($_ENV['AH_SITE_NAME'] , true);'
printenv 'AH_SITE_NAME'

These values must be equal. If they are not:

1. Edit your website’s settings.php file.
2. Before the Acquia require line, add $_SERVER['PWD']=DRUPAL_ROOT;.
3. Save the settings.php file.

Drush aliases are downloaded only for active on-demand environments¶

Drush aliases for Acquia Cloud CD environments are downloaded only if the environment is active.

Do not install Drush in your home directory¶

Installing Drush in your user directory can cause unexpected task failures. Acquia recommends you require a site-local Drush as part of your codebase, not your home directory, and run your commands with a specific major version of Drush, as described in Using Drush on Acquia Cloud.

New Drupal 8 Composer builds fail due to vendor dependency¶

Composer builds for Drupal 8 were failing due to a problem with the behat/mink-selenium2-driver vendor dependency required by Drupal.

Workaround: Remove the previous workaround, which recommended pinning to the 1.3.x-dev version of the vendored software. For more information, see this Acquia knowledge base article and issue #3078671 on Drupal.org.

Legacy alerts from New Relic fail with the removal of TLS 1.0¶

Legacy alerts from New Relic fail with the removal of TLS 1.0 from Acquia systems. For help in updating your alerts, see: Transition from legacy alerting to New Relic Alerts and Availability monitoring (legacy).

Using Midnight Commander can cause file service interruptions¶

Acquia Cloud Enterprise customers who use GNU Midnight Commander can experience service interruptions when trying to access their GFS mount. Acquia currently recommends that you do not use Midnight Commander with your Acquia-hosted websites.

Website duplication may cause rsync issues¶

Website duplication can cause rsync issues in the distributed file system which results in the following log error:

rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred (code 24)at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.1]
Could not rsync from [error]

Workaround: Contact Acquia Support and specify the affected files listed in the rsync error.

The Acquia Cloud pipelines feature is incompatible with IP whitelisting¶

The Acquia Cloud pipelines user interface uses a user authentication system incompatible with IP address whitelisting.

Workaround: Use the command-line interface instead.

You can connect the Acquia Cloud pipelines feature only to repositories owned by the current Bitbucket user¶

The Bitbucket permissions model requires that the current user own the repository and all of the code being deployed. Users may be unable to add branches from external pull requests or experience other issues.

The Acquia Cloud pipelines feature is incompatible with Bitbucket Server¶

The Acquia Cloud pipelines feature works only with Bitbucket Cloud, and not Bitbucket Server.

The Bitbucket API has known issues with forks¶

The API for Bitbucket does not allow you to pull in the branch from a fork inside a pull request.

The Bitbucket API only allows collaborators to see branches¶

You must add a user as a collaborator to your fork to see the user’s branches.

Pipelines jobs fail if they contain SSH keys generated by OpenSSH version 7.8 or greater¶

OpenSSH version 7.8 now generates RSA key pairs with a default format incompatible with the Acquia Cloud pipelines feature. Pipelines jobs that include a SSH key generated in the default format by these versions of OpenSSH in the ssh-keys section of the build definition file will fail with the following error:

Failed to parse the build file. The SSH key named [KEY NAME] is not a valid
SSH private key or requires a password.

Workaround: Generate a key using a format compatible with pipelines jobs:

ssh-keygen -m PEM -t rsa -b 4096

Acquia Cloud Platform CDN is not compatible with Node.js¶

The Acquia Cloud Platform CDN is incompatible with Node.js applications.

Acquia Cloud Platform CDN is not compatible with custom Varnish configurations¶

The Acquia Cloud Platform CDN does not support the use of custom Varnish configurations (custom VCLs) with Acquia Cloud-hosted applications. Attempting to do so can cause Acquia Cloud Enterprise to experience conflicting caching behavior.

Self-service SSL certificates overwrite Acquia’s default certificate¶

When requesting the Acquia default domain, the subscriber’s self-service SSL certificate loads instead of the Acquia SSL certificate that covers the Acquia default domains. This behavior causes an SSL error in the browser.

Certificate signing requests don’t work with Node.js applications¶

You can’t generate certificate signing requests (CSRs) for Node.js applications from the Acquia Cloud user interface.

Workaround: Upload SSL certificates manually.

Emergency-level logging broadcasts logged data to open SSH sessions¶

If a Drupal module logs information with the RFC 5424 severity of emergency, syslog broadcasts the information to open SSH sessions. These broadcasts can disrupt commands in progress, as indicated in the following example:

Broadcast message from [email protected]

Workaround: Either modify the module’s logging function to decrease the message’s severity from emergency to another level, or disable the module’s logging feature.

Multi-region failover does not support multisites¶

The Acquia Cloud multi-region failover service supports only a single database per environment.

Some Drupal modules are not supported on Acquia Cloud¶

The design of the Acquia platform can sometimes cause incompatibilities with Drupal contributed modules. Drupal modules not supported on Acquia Cloud are listed in Modules and applications incompatible with Acquia Cloud. Other modules usable on Acquia Cloud with caution or special configuration are listed in Modules to use with caution on Acquia Cloud. For information about other software incompatible with Acquia Cloud, see Unsupported software.

You must rebuild caches after updating Drupal¶

Customers upgrading their websites to newer versions of Drupal 8 must rebuild website caches after the upgrading. Unexpected errors and problems with some page displays may occur until you rebuild caches.

Running update.php on Drupal 8 can display error messages¶

Attempting to run update.php on Drupal 8 will fail with the following error message:

In order to run update.php you need to either be logged in as admin or have
set $settings['update_free_access']

Workaround: Use one of the following methods:

• Run drush updb to complete database updates.

• Whenever you must run update.php, use your browser’s cookie manager to grab the session cookie from your current authenticated Drupal session, and then remove the leading S from the session name.

• If you are running updates on your Dev or Stage environments, temporarily disable HTTPS while running updates.

• Edit your settings.php file to temporarily set $settings['update_free_access'] to TRUE during your updates.

• ADVANCED: Add the following code to your update.php file (directly following the use statements) to force Drupal to acknowledge the X-Forwarded-Proto value when determining if the request must be treated as HTTPS:

  if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO"]) &&
     $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO"] == "https") {
     $_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';
     }
  

Altering the $databases array causes connection errors¶

Websites altering the $databases array in settings.php to enable third-party database connections may experience connection errors when the connection setup is delayed in settings.php.

You cannot import a local website archive using the product interface¶

The Acquia Cloud interface does not support importing a website archive from a local file using the UI. Instead, you can import a site archive from a URL or import using Drush.

All Twig cache files for an environment are stored in a single directory¶

Clearing a website’s Twig caches clears the Twig caches for all websites hosted by that environment. For more information about how Acquia Cloud stores Twig caches, see Twig caches.

Resolution for Acquia Cloud Site Factory subscribers: Upgrade your installed version of the Acquia Cloud Site Factory Connector module to either version 8.x-1.59 or greater, or version 8.x-2.59 or greater (for Drush 9 support).

Drupal 8 websites can have theme change issues with Twig caches¶

Drupal 8 applications on Acquia Cloud Enterprise can experience issues where cached Twig templates fall out of sync on different web server instances when changing themes and performing a code deployment. The problem arises from having separate copies of the compiled Twig templates on each web server instance and a related Drupal core issue.

Workaround: When you make changes to themes in Drupal 8 applications on Acquia Cloud Enterprise, connect to each web server instance, and then run a command like the following to remove the outdated Twig templates:

drush @[sitename].[prod] --uri=http://[site_URL]/ ev '\Drupal\Core\PhpStorage\PhpStorageFactory::get("twig")->deleteAll();'

The AuthUserFile directive in .htaccess is not supported¶

The AuthUserFile directive in the Apache .htaccess file sets the name of a text file containing a list of users and passwords for user authentication. Acquia Cloud does not support AuthUserFile, since its value must be either an absolute path or a path relative to the server root, and won’t work across different Acquia Cloud environments.

The SymLinksIfOwnerMatch option in .htaccess is not supported¶

Due to the configuration of directory ownership and permissions for your Acquia Cloud application’s codebase and files directories, use of the SymLinksIfOwnerMatch option in your application’s .htaccess file will prevent your web server from accessing any of the assets in your files directory. You must use the FollowSymLinks option instead.

Previous versions of Acquia Cloud used LOGNAME differently¶

Do not use the LOGNAME environment variable to determine sitegroup or sitename in your .htaccess file or in other custom scripts.

Workaround: Use the AH_SITE_NAME, AH_SITE_GROUP, or AH_SITE_ENVIRONMENT environment variables if you need environment-aware variables in your scripts.