Ubuntu 17.10 running Apache 2.4 on a Vultr instance. Using virtual host for my.example.com website. Installed Drupal 8.5.1 per recommended Drupal-Composer/Drupal-Project. Apache docroot points to the "web" folder containing Drupal core (ie, where Drupal's update.php lives, among other things). The project root folder is one level up, containing the composer.json file.
File permissions: the project root folder itself is owned by user:www-data; same for Drupal root (web, and below). Drupal status is fine. It looks like Composer installed the /vendor folder [in the project root] as user:user.
I have seen so many errors, it's hard to know where to start. So far I have not discovered any underlying logic to them. The goal is simple: to get Drush working on my install, which is nothing special. Even on Windows, I can get Drush half-working.
- After the install, Drush was at least recognizing its own existence. (At one point, I had the drush.phar helper globally installed, per the instructions from that website.) But "drush status" was claiming that it couldn't find Drupal -- even with the -uri flag, and even with the alias set up in example.site.yml contained in /project-root/drush/sites.
Drush status was looking at something that pointed to a deleted docroot folder, but I couldn't find the relevant config, and the only possibility was a path entry in that section of the composer.json file. Which I fixed, but that didn't help Drush.
- Per the Drush docs, I tried running the drush command from Drupal root, pointing to /vendor/bin; and also in the /vendor/drush/drush folder. Getting permission denied in all cases. [Why? I'm the user running the command, in folders that I own as the user! Does Drush need www-data group permission?]
Adding a path command to ~/.profile [the Ubuntu file for .bash_profile] didn't help.
- The permission denied error was in addition to the error re "command not found" -- when I'm in the very folder where I know the command file is located. I tried "chmod +x" on both the /vendor/bin version of drush, and the vendor/drush/drush/ version [just the "drush" single word file, not the "drush.php" file], but that didn't solve the problem. I reverted those back.
[And why is the folder structure so convoluted? Why the middle /drush?]
So, then, I thought that maybe it was a Drupal-Composer issue. So composer did allow for removal of drush/drush. And I deleted all the left-behind drush folders in my user home and in the project folder.
Went to re-install Drush using Composer, per the Drush install docs: "composer require drush/drush"
Which fails for me. The main culprit seems to be a symfony/var-dumper conflict [many versions] with symfony/http-kernel [many versions] -- it's several screens full of the attempted reconciliation, with this conclusion:
- Can only install one of: symfony/var-dumper[v3.4.8, v4.0.8].
- Installation request for symfony/var-dumper (locked at v4.0.8) -> satisfiable by symfony/var-dumper[v4.0.8].
updating for symfony/http-kernel (with dependencies): nothing to update
updating for symfony/var-dumper (with dependencies): nothing to update
In composer.lock, the entry for SHK does have a "conflict" parameter that mentions SVD. But I don't know how to fix that [if that is in fact the source of the "lock" statement above].
I run a simple website, so probably don't need Drush to move to D8 -- except that others seem to get it working and find it helpful -- and I'd like to join that club.
