Setting up local developement instance for Drupal 8

This blog is about set up a local developement instance for Drupal 8 on Pantheon server and the best use of drush.


Let’s follow the step-by-step process  to set up our own local developement instance:

I)

To set up local developement instancefor Drupal 8 ,  Click on git and copy below command
git clone ssh://devserver.dev.463157b8-419d-482f-b571-xxxxxxxxx@deveserver.dev.463157b8-419d-482f-b571-3504bb893903.drush.in:2222/~/repository.git mkrishnapriya-drupal

II)
Then go to your web root i.e. /var/www/html/ and paste the copied command
git clone ssh://devserver.dev.463157b8-419d-482f-b571-xxxxxxxxx@devserver.dev.463157b8-419d-482f-b571-3504bb893903.drush.in:2222/~/repository.mkrishnapriya-drupal
III)

Meanwhile, create a database for the site in local
mysql -u root -p Enter the username and administrator password you set-up during installation

CREATE DATABASE drupal8;
IV)
Download the Pantheon Drush alias from Pantheon Dashboard (https://dashboard.pantheon.io) and place that file to .drush folder
i.e. /home//.drush/

Place below code in .drush folder file name as local.aliases.drushrc.php
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

$local_sites = '/var/www/html/';
$scan = scandir($local_sites);
unset($scan[0]);
unset($scan[1]);
foreach($scan as $projects){
 $aliases[$projects] = array(
 'root' => $local_sites . $projects,
 'path-aliases' => array(
   '%dump-dir' => $local_sites . 'drush.dbdumps',
   '%files' => $local_sites . $projects . '/sites/default/files'
   )
 );
}
?>

V)
After clone is done, go to /var/www/html/drupal8/sites/default/
Create new settings.local.php should be an settings.local.php of Drupal 8 Note: Add below code snippet

/**
* @file
* settings.local.php.
*/
// Local development configuration.
if (!defined('PANTHEON_ENVIRONMENT')) {
 // Database.
 $databases['default']['default'] = array (
   'database' => Drupal8,
   'username' => '*****',
   'password' => '****',
   'prefix' => '',
   'host' => '******',
   'port' => '3306',
   'namespace' => 'Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Driver\\mysql',
   'driver' => 'mysql',
 );
 $config_directories['sync'] = 'sites/default/config';
 $settings['hash_salt'] = '$HASH_SALT';
}
ini_set('max_execution_time', -1); // add if required
ini_set('memory_limit', '512M'); // add if required
ini_set('upload_max_filesize , 1024M'); // add if required
ini_set('post_max_size , 1024M'); // add if required

Step 6

Create files folder in sites/all/default/
Give permission to file folder Chmod 777 -R files/
Go to ./drush folder through terminal and type drush cc drush
Now on terminal, type drush sa
You will get all local aliases, dev aliases, test aliases and live aliases