Important
You can install a Drupal distribution (or Drupal core) using the Acquia Cloud Platform interface or Cloud IDE. A Drupal distribution is a custom edition of Drupal, tuned and extended with custom developed and contributed modules to enable desired features, such as Acquia CMS. You can install many of the best and most popular Drupal distributions on Acquia Cloud Platform. For a list, see Choosing a Drupal distribution.
You can install a Drupal distribution (or Drupal core) using one of the following methods:
Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface and select the application and environment where you want to install Drupal. You cannot install Drupal in a Production environment.
On the environment’s Overview page, click Install Drupal.
Note
If Install Drupal is disabled for use, ensure that the following required items are in place for your environment:
On the Install distribution page, locate the Drupal distribution that you want to install, and then click Install. For many distributions, you can click Learn more to receive more information about a distribution.
To install a distribution that’s not listed (for example, your organization may have its own Drupal distributions, or you may want to install another distribution from drupal.org), click Install from URL. In the Install Drupal from URL dialog, enter the URL of the distribution.
Note
For Drupal 7, the URL of the distribution’s download file (must be in
.tar.gz
format). The URL of the distribution’s Drush .make
file.
In the Install Drupal from URL dialog, click Install.
Deploying a new Drupal distribution in an environment takes a few minutes.
After the installation process completes, click the environment’s website URL
to visit your Drupal website. This runs install.php
to complete the Drupal
installation. The Drupal install.php
script opens in a new browser window.
The script creates a standard Drupal database, sets up the administrator
username and password, and configures other modules and features relevant
to the Drupal distribution you chose.
To start modifying your code, make a local copy of the repository using the Git checkout
command.
Cloud IDE also offers a convenient and opinionated way to install Drupal.
To install a Drupal distribution using a Cloud IDE:
Launch your Cloud IDE. If you have not yet created a Cloud IDE, follow the instructions on Getting started with Cloud IDE.
From the IDE Get Started page, click create a new Drupal application in your Cloud IDE.
A terminal pane pops up and prompts you to install the Acquia Drupal recommended project or the Acquia Drupal minimal project.
Select your target version by typing the number associated with your
distribution selection in the terminal prompt and press Enter. Acquia CLI takes care of automatic installation of Drupal in Cloud IDE’s
/home/ide/project
directory.
After Drupal is installed, you can start developing or push from the IDE
terminal to Acquia Cloud Platform with acli push:db
and acli push:files
. As a best practice, your codebase
remains to be managed with Git.