README

This is a project template providing a great out-of-the-box experience for new Drupal 11 projects hosted on Acquia. It is based on the Drupal Recommended Project, with the principal difference being the addition of several modules and packages that provide the best possible out-of-the-box experience for Acquia customers.

This project includes the following packages and configurations:

• Drupal core
• Drupal core scaffold
• Acquia Drupal Starter kit
• Drupal Recommended Settings
• Drush (Drupal CLI and development tool)
• Asset Packagist repository, package, and configuration
• Acquia environment detection
• Acquia platform memcache settings (Not required on Acquia Cloud Next Platform)
• Best practices for Drupal development, testing and project architecture

Acquia Drupal Starter Kits

To learn more about Acquia Drupal starter kits, please refer to the documentation.

Installation

Create a new Drupal 11 project using Composer:

composer create-project --no-interaction acquia/drupal-recommended-project

To install Drupal Starter Kit, follow the instructions.

Install other Drupal versions

To install Drupal 10 version, use the below command:

composer create-project acquia/drupal-recommended-project:^2

To install Drupal 9 version, use the below command:

composer create-project acquia/drupal-recommended-project:^1

Upgrading

To upgrade Acquia Drupal starter Kit, follow the instructions.

The Acquia Cloud Platform does not yet support MySQL 8.0, therefore enabling the backport database driver module is required for Drupal 11 installation on Acquia Cloud Platform. Follow instructions.

License

Copyright (C) 2024 Acquia, Inc.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.