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title: "Help my drush aliases don't work with Drush 9!"
date: "2025-02-05T23:52:45+00:00"
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If you've upgraded to Drupal 8.5.x and above, and have used Composer to install Drush 9, you will find that commands that use [Acquia Site Aliases](/node/56326) no longer work. Drush 9 is a complete rewrite of Drush, and the alias file format is now completely different.

Acquia provides [downloadable Drush Aliases](/node/56326) that are compatible with Drush 8 and 9, and allow you to run a [shell command on a remote server](https://docs.drush.org/en/7.x/usage/#site-aliases).

When you are logged in to cloud.acquia.com, you can also use this script for all of your sites and extract the archive into $HOME

    $ tar -C $HOME -xf $HOME/Downloads/acquia-cloud.drush-aliases.tar.gz

Log in to https://accounts.acquia.com/ and visit your **profile** then choose **Credentials** the link to download the Drush alias is _under_ the Drush Integration codeblock. 

![Acquia Cloud Drush integration page with download instructions for Drush 8 aliases and a link for Drush 9 aliases.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/fa5e3b43-339c-43b0-995c-28656233ae1d/web/ka0Pb0000008gzl00N6g00000VCdgi0EM6g000002Wtck.png)

See [https://www.drush.org/](https://www.drush.org/) for more information about using Drush 9.