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CiviCRM for Drupal 8 installation notes¶

• Make sure your composer version is up to date! The one that ships with civicrm-buildkit is quite old.
• Run the composer command on David Snopek's blog post that fits your scenario (creating a new site vs. adding Civi to an existing D8 site).
  • New site is: composer create-project roundearth/drupal-civicrm-project:8.x-dev some-dir --no-interaction
• Add the following to civicrm.settings.php (modify the last line for your actual CMS root, and paste this after CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL is defined):

$civicrm_setting['URL Preferences']['userFrameworkResourceURL'] = CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL . '/libraries/civicrm/';                                                                                                     
$civicrm_paths['civicrm.root']['url'] = CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL . '/libraries/civicrm/';
$civicrm_setting['domain']['userFrameworkResourceURL'] = CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL . '/libraries/civicrm/';
$civicrm_paths['cms.root']['path'] = '/home/jon/local/drupal8test/web';

• If you prefer separate Drupal and Civi databases, dump the Civi tables only and drop the Civi tables. Load them into a new database and modify your CIVICRM_DSN in civicrm.settings.php accordingly.

kcfinder¶

[Note that I have an open MR to handle the first two steps in civicrm-composer-plugin.]
kcfinder (image browsing/upload within CKEditor) is currently broken. You need to do several things to fix.

• First, copy it to libraries/civicrm: cp -r vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/packages/kcfinder web/libraries/civicrm/packages/.
• Your <webroot>/libraries/civicrm/settings_location.php must contain the correct path to the directory which contains civicrm.settings.php.
• Apply this PR to <webroot>/libraries/civicrm/packages/kcfinder/integration/civicrm.php.

non-bootstrap scripts¶

• To get extern scripts and bin/csv/import.php loading correctly, run this (to create a second settings_location.php):

cat << EOF > vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/settings_location.php
<?php

define('CIVICRM_CONFDIR', '../../../web/sites');
EOF

Alternatively, set BOTH settings_location.php values to an absolute path, e.g. /home/jon/local/agbud8/htdocs/web/sites/default.