Project requirements

Download Git

We recommend downloading Git from http://git-scm.com/downloads

Download Composer

Run this in your terminal to get the latest Composer version:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Or if you don't have curl:

php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php

This installer script will simply check some php.ini settings, warn you if they are set incorrectly, and then download the latest composer.phar in the current directory

You can run this terminal command to make Composer easily accessible, from anywhere on your system:

$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Download Drupal 8

The Drupal Console project only supports Drupal 8; which you will need to download and install locally.

Download Drupal

$ drupal site:new drupal8.dev 8.0.0
$ cd drupal8.dev

Install Drupal using MySQL:

$ drupal site:install standard --langcode=en --db-type=mysql --db-host=127.0.0.1 
  --db-name=drupal --db-user=root --db-pass=root --db-port=3306 
  --site-name="Drupal 8 Site Install" --site-mail=admin@example.com 
  --account-name=admin --account-mail=admin@example.com --account-pass=admin -n

Install Drupal using SQLite:

$ drupal site:install standard --langcode=en --db-type=sqlite 
  --db-file=sites/default/files/.ht.sqlite --site-name="Drupal 8 Site Install" 
  --site-mail=admin@example.com --account-name=admin --account-mail=admin@example.com
  --account-pass=admin -n

Start the PHP's built in server

$ drupal server

NOTE: Make sure you use your own user and database credentials when running site:install and never user root on production. In this example code, we accept all interactive questions, i.e. answering “yes” when passing the -y argument.