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Installing Drupal Starter Kits through the Cloud Platform user interface

Use cases for using this method

You can install Drupal Starter Kits through the Cloud Platform user interface in the following scenarios:

  • You want to try Drupal Starter Kits without spending time composing on your local development environment and pushing to the remote repository.
  • You want to use Drupal Starter Kits as it comes and do not have much expertise with Composer.
  • You want to explore Drupal Starter Kits without investing too much development time.
  • You prefer to install through the user interface instead of the command line.

Using the Cloud Platform user interface

You can install a basic Drupal distribution through the Cloud Platform user interface. Such a distribution does not have any Drupal starter kit or add-ons. For more information, see Installing a Drupal distribution through the Cloud Platform user interface.

After installing a basic Drupal project, use the following steps to install a specific Drupal starter kit along with add-ons to the project:

  1. Run the following command:

    composer require acquia/acquia-cms-starterkit
  2. Sign in to the Drupal Starter Kits site.
  3. In the Drupal Starter Kits administrative user interface, click Manage > Tour.
  4. On the Tour page, click Get started.

  5. Click Starter kit set-up.

  6. On the Starter Kit Selection page, select a starter kit from the available options and click Save & continue.

  7. Based on the selected starter kit, select the appropriate option for the questions to extend the starter kit with add-ons.

Enterprise low-code starter kit

  1. In Do you want to enable demo content?, select Yes to see the operation of Drupal Starter Kits with a content model with demo content and Site Studio components with demo content. Otherwise, select the default value, No.
    • If you select No:

      1. In Do you want to enable the content model?, select Yes or No.

        This question includes all content types in the site.

  2. In API key, specify the Site Studio API key.

  3. In Agency key, specify the Site Studio organization key.
  4. In Use Site Studio, select Enable.
  5. Click Save and Import assets to import all the Site Studio packages.
  6. If you are an existing Acquia customer who does not use the Site Studio Configuration Management module, do the following steps:

    1. (Optional) If you are already using the blt-site-studio plugin, remove it from your codebase by running the following command:

      composer remove acquia/blt-site-studio

      1. Remove the following lines from the blt/blt.yml file:

        site-studio:
  rebuild: true
  package-import: true
  cohesion-import: true
    2. To add and extend the Site Studio Configuration Management module to your codebase, access the Extend page or /admin/modules.

    3. Locate the Site Studio Configuration Management module, select Site Studio Configuration Management, and click Install.

    4. Add the following lines to the settings.php file:

      $settings['config_sync_directory'] = '../config/default/sync';
$settings['site_studio_sync'] = '../config/default/site_studio';

Community starter kit

  1. In Do you want to enable demo content?, select Yes to see the operation of Drupal Starter Kits with a content model with demo content and Site Studio components with demo content. Otherwise, select the default value, No.
    • If you select No:

      1. In Do you want to enable the content model?, select Yes or No.

        This question includes all content types in the site.

The system redirects you to the Tour page where you can complete the installation process.

Headless starter kit

  1. In Do you want to enable demo content?, select Yes to see the operation of Drupal Starter Kits with a content model with demo content and Site Studio components with demo content. Otherwise, select the default value, No.

    • If you select No:

      1. In Do you want to enable the content model?, select Yes or No.

        This question includes all content types in the site.

    The system redirects to the Tour page.

  2. To enable Next.js starter kit, select Enable Next.js starter kit.

  3. To enable the headless mode, select Enable Headless mode.
  4. Click Complete.

The site is generated with the selected starter kit and add-ons.

After you install Drupal Starter Kits, you can develop your Drupal site and deploy your changes to Cloud Next.

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