Some Drush master-branch commands report DB problem in Drupal 8

Question

I use Drupal 8.0.0 in a Windows 10 home, WAMP environment.

When I run for example drush up, I get:

The drush command 'up' could not be executed. Drush was not able to start (bootstrap) the Drupal database

• Every action is done when I am in the sites folder (C:\wamp\www\sname>).
• This is a brand new environment - I've only one DB named equally as it's user.

Update:

After I tried to follow this similar (but surly not identical!) thread, I added a fifth value to the Path Environment variable, restarted the Win CLI, and than when I ran drush up at the sites' folder, I got another, brand new error:

wget nor curl executables found.

I need to further explore this but if you have an idea, please shoot...

Drush status

 C:\wamp\www\sname>drush status
 Drupal version         :  8.0.0
 Site URI               :  http://default
 Database driver        :  mysql
 Database hostname      :  localhost
 Database port          :  3306
 Database username      :  sname
 Database name          :  sname
 PHP executable         :  php.exe
 PHP configuration      :  C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12\php.ini
 PHP OS                 :  WINNT
 Drush script           :  C:\drush-master\drush.php
 Drush version          :  8.1-dev
 Drush temp directory   :  C:\Users\Beni\AppData\Local\Temp
 Drush configuration    :
 Drush alias files      :
 Drupal root            :  C:\wamp\www\sname
 Site path              :  sites/default
 Sync config path       :  sites/default/files/config_mkuaR5uFQ7VCjh1_FFBuZzWXkUsz-sA7Klv4HO_2yLJG33wfJJabdavO7QKzyIRWiQoWA3IJbg/sync

Drush sql-conf

C:\wamp\www\sname>drush sql-conf
Array
(
    [database] => sname
    [username] => sname
    [prefix] => Array
        (
            [default] =>
        )

    [host] => localhost
    [port] => 3306
    [namespace] => Drupal\Core\Database\Driver\mysql
    [driver] => mysql
)

Answer 1

Drush is giving a very accurate error message

wget nor curl executables found.

You can either install Curl separately as benos suggests above or install more Unix tools. Since you might need Git anyway, why not install Git for Windows? Then you get a proper Bash prompt. If you prefer to use Command or Powershell you can select to update the PATH variable when installing so Git (and the Unix tools) are available there too.

Answer 2

This is due that for some reason Drush can't find your database. First make sure that your WAMP running on and your Drupal is been connected to a database. If you still have this problem you can try it out a Drush aliases, which is not ideal but it will solve your problem.

You MUST create a local drush alias for the site using the following for

<?php
/**
 * Local alias
 * Set the root and site_path values to point to your local site
 */
$aliases['yoursitename'] = array(
  'uri'  => 'http://yoursitename:8082',
  'root' => 'C:/Dev_Server/Dev_Sites/yoursitename',
  'db-url' => 'mysql://yourdatabaseusername:[email protected]:3306/yoursitename',
    'databases' =>
      array (
        'default' =>
        array (
          'default' =>
          array (
            'driver' => 'mysql',
            'username' => 'yourdatabaseusername',
            'password' => 'yourpassword',
            'port' => '',
            'host' => '127.0.0.1',
            'database' => 'yourdatabasename',
          ),
       ),
    ),
);

For a more details explanation of how to do this please refer to - https://www.drupal.org/node/1393232#comment-9239657

Answer 3

What worked for me without creating a local Drush alias, was to install CURL for my 64-86 Windows 10 home environment, and than setting it's Path Environment variable (to CURL's bin folder).