The Acquia Connector module is a Drupal module package that allows your websites to exchange information with Acquia.
To install the Acquia Connector:
Sign in to your Drupal website as an administrator.
Install and enable the Acquia Connector for your version of Drupal:
When enabling your Acquia Connector module in your Drupal website, enable the following modules on the Extend/Modules webpage, by Drupal version:
Go to the Acquia Network Connector configuration webpage using the appropriate method, based on your installed Drupal version:
If the Configuration page does not indicate you are connected to an Acquia subscription, click Get connected, and then enter your Acquia email address and password.
Note
For multisite applications, it is helpful to enter a unique name in the Site Identification field. Cloud Platform-hosted websites are provided with a name and machine name by default, which are displayed in Cloud Platform interface pages, such as Stack Metrics, to help identify individual installations.
Choose the subscription you want to connect, and then click Submit. If you are using Acquia Connector 7.x-3.x, and your website is not hosted on Cloud Platform, you must enter a name for your website under Site identification, and then click Save settings.
Note
Enabling the Acquia Connector module in a local, development website can cause the website to be listed on your Cloud Platform subscription page along with your other applications.
The Acquia Connector also includes the Acquia Search integration, a fully managed SaaS search offering that integrates seamlessly with Drupal applications. Built on the enterprise-grade Apache Solr search engine, Acquia Search is hosted on Cloud Platform, providing a fully redundant infrastructure that ensures search is a highly available feature of your website. Learn more about Acquia Search.
To get the greatest benefit from Cloud Platform, you must keep the Acquia Connector module up to date with the latest stable version.
Important
When you upgrade the Acquia Connector module, ensure you install the
upgraded version in the correct location in your docroot directory. If you
are using an Acquia-sponsored Drupal distribution, the Acquia Connector
module may be already installed in
[docroot]/profiles/acquia/modules
and not in
[docroot]/sites/all/modules
. You must upgrade the
module in the location where it is installed. Having different versions of
the module installed in more than one location can result in confusion or
inconsistent behavior.