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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](https://www.mydropwizard.com/blog/better-way-install-civicrm-drupal-8) 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):
```php
$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](https://stackoverflow.com/a/5269543/2832108) and [drop the Civi tables](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1589324/2832108). Load them into a new database and modify your `CIVICRM_DSN` in `civicrm.settings.php` accordingly.
#### kcfinder
[Note there is an [merged [open MR](https://gitlab.com/roundearth/civicrm-composer-plugin/merge_requests/2) to handle the first two steps in `civicrm-composer-plugin` but it's not published to packagist yet. The `civicrm-composer-plugin`, and the third step should be included in Civi 5.13.]
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` should read:
```php must contain the correct path to the directory which contains `civicrm.settings.php`.
<?php
define('CIVICRM_CONFDIR', dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))) . '/sites');
```
* Apply [this PR](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-packages/pull/242) to `<webroot>/libraries/civicrm/packages/kcfinder/integration/civicrm.php`.
#### non-bootstrap scripts
[There's an [open MR](https://gitlab.com/roundearth/civicrm-composer-plugin/merge_requests/4) to handle this]
* To get `extern` scripts and `bin/csv/import.php` loading correctly, run this (to create a *second* `settings_location.php` in `vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core`: `settings_location.php`):
```php ```bash
cat << EOF > vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core/settings_location.php
<?php
define('CIVICRM_CONFDIR', dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))) . '/sites');
EOF
```
Alternatively, set BOTH `settings_location.php` values to an absolute path, e.g. `/home/jon/local/agbud8/htdocs/web/sites/default`.