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Wondering if anyone knows why some Drush commands (with file parameters) only run from the docroot and won't run from the project/composer root?

Commands such as drush sql-query and drush locale-import are among these.

For example, with standard Drupal folder structure:

/ (composer root)

  • composer.json
  • vendor
  • translations
    • translations.fr.po
  • web (docroot)

running from composer root:

  • vendor/bin/drush locale-import fr translations/translations.fr.po

gives file not found error. Even using ./translations/translations.fr.po gives same error

but going to docroot and running:

  • ../vendor/bin/drush ../translations/translation.fr.po

works fine.

Our deploy scripts always run composer, drush and other commands from the composer root folder. So a bit of a pain to have to cd /web and then cd .. for these couple "special" Drush commands. Guessing there must be something I am doing wrong.

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    IIRC Drush commands tend to run with the web root (not execution path) as the working directory - does vendor/bin/drush locale-import fr ../translations/translations.fr.po from the project root work?
    – Clive ♦
    Jan 17, 2022 at 22:16
  • It might depend a on the version of Drush and the composer.json template you are using. Is the web root defined in composer.json? What version of Drush?
    – leymannx
    Jan 17, 2022 at 23:25
  • But in the end I think it's always safer to execute Drush commands from within the webroot.
    – leymannx
    Jan 17, 2022 at 23:31
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    @Clive, yes, that's the answer. I can run in project root but Drush still thinks of things as from docroot. Excellent. Thank you.
    – liquidcms
    Jan 19, 2022 at 20:53
  • Not sure how to mark a comment as the answer :(
    – liquidcms
    Jan 19, 2022 at 20:54

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If you use a drush alias, it shouldn’t matter where you run the command from e.g

drush @site some-command

The webroot is specified in the alias.

More info https://www.drush.org/latest/site-aliases/

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  • That's an alias to the site url. It won't have any impact on Drush not handling path to file arguments correctly.
    – liquidcms
    Jan 19, 2022 at 20:51
  • @liquidcms The drush alias contains various settings including the webroot directory specified in the root setting eg “root: /other/path/to/live/drupal”
    – David Thomas
    Jan 20, 2022 at 6:11
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Clive didn't post as an answer so I will just copy here:

Drush commands run as if from the web root (not execution path) as the working directory. So even though running command from the project root; argument paths have to be entered as if coming from the web root.

vendor/bin/drush locale-import fr ../translations/translations.fr.po

  • from the project root

David's answer would also work if you were using aliases (which I am not).

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