How do I link drush to my drupal site thats hosted via localhost?

Question

I have installed drush via terminal, but how do I link it to my 2 local drupal sites? When I do drush status I get this:

PHP configuration : /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini PHP OS : Linux
Drush script : /usr/local/bin/drush
Drush version : 8.1.2
Drush temp directory : /tmp
Drush configuration :
Drush alias files :

So how do I now link the drush to my two virtual host drupal sites? I looked online for a tutorial or guide, but I don't quite understand the ones I found on how to link them.

Answer 1

There are several ways to tell Drush which Drupal site you would like it to operate on.

1. Run Drush from the directory that contains the Drupal site's settings.php file. $ cd /path/to/drupal_root/sites/default $ drush status
2. Pass --root and --uri options that identify the site: $ drush --root=/path/to/drupal_root --uri=http://mysite.dev status
3. Create a site alias, and use that $ drush @mysite status In order to use the last option, you must define the mysite alias as described in the example aliases file.

UPDATE:

The --uri option is used (a) to select which settings.php to use, and (b) to set the $_SERVER superglobal. If your settings.php file is in the default directory, then --uri is not necessary to bootstrap. However, some modules will expect the URI to be set up correctly; in some instances, you will not get the correct results if this setting is omitted.