CiviCRM Drupal 8 Install Script

Description

This project contains a script which automatically downloads all the necessary modules and dependencies needed for installing CiviCRM on an existing D8 installation. Read the full blog here.

Prerequisites

Composer - not just the tool, but your Drupal 8 site should be using composer to manage dependencies.
Bower - another package management tool. Yes, we are rich with package managers in this process.
Git - Source control (managing the code that runs your site) is an essential part of every build, but particularly, it’s a requirement of Composer, because it uses that source control to lock down which packages you are building on.

Important Notes

Ensure that your ‘Vendor’ directory is outside of your document root. So your directory structure would be like this:

your_d8_site_directory
└── composer.json
└── composer.lock
└── vendor
└── web (your document root)

Create a backup of your database.

Installation

Copy the .env, civicrm_setup.sh files to the root of your project.
Run civicrm_setup.sh from the project root directory bash ./civicrm_setup.sh
Now, go to the "Extend" page (at /admin/modules) and install the CiviCRM module.

This will create a civicrm.settings.php in your /sites/default directory which contains information about where the database is, etc.
This will also create all the necessary tables in your Drupal database.

Logout of Drupal and log back in again.

This is needed to sync your logged-in account with CiviCRM contacts.

Get the Civi theme to apply by going to /civicrm/admin/setting/url?reset=1 and set the CiviCRM Resource URL to /libraries/civicrm and click “Save”.

And you are done!

`.env` file

This file contains variables necessary for civicrm_setup.sh such as the CiviCRM version, doc root, etc.