This is a Composer-based installer for the Illinois Framework Drupal distribution. It is intended to be used on the UIUC cPanel instance at https://web.illinois.edu. For information about what content types and modules are included, please check out the Illinois Framework Drupal distribution repository. This distribution is maintained by the Illinois WIGG-Drupal group. An example site that showcases the features of this distribution can be found at https://drupal.webtheme.illinois.edu/.
- A fresh cPanel account on https://web.illinois.edu
- Github personal access token that is enabled for SSO
- Save the token string somewhere safe. You will need it for each new site you install.
- You will be prompted for it after you run the composer command below that installs your site. Paste it into the terminal window and hit enter. You will not see it when pasting.
- Creating individual keys for each install is advisable but will require more maintenance and record keeping. If you will be sharing your cPanel account with others you should create a new key.
- The key you enter will be stored and reused when you run the update script.
- From the cPanel dashboard, open up Terminal (or SSH into your site if you prefer)
- Run the
composercommand below from your home (~) directory. The script will pause when you are prompted for your GitHub token. Be sure to take note of the admin password displayed at the end of the script. Expect this install to take about 10 minutes.
composer create-project --remove-vcs --no-dev --repository="{\"url\": \"https://github.com/web-illinois/illinois_framework_project.git\", \"type\": \"vcs\"}" web-illinois/illinois_framework_project:1.x-dev illinois_framework
- Access the site at <your domain prefix>.web.illinois.edu
- Login to your site at <your domain prefix>.web.illinois.edu/user/login
Congrats! You should now have a Illinois Framework Drupal site!
After your ILFW site is installed, it is recommended that you perform these extra steps:
- In the "Update Manager Settings" (
/admin/reports/updates/settings) set the e-mail address to a mailbox you monitor. - Change the admin password to something more secure and store it in a password manager
- Go through the site setup at https://drupal.webtheme.illinois.edu/site-setup
- Be sure to add the
drushalias to your .bashrc file using the instructions below - The files for your site are stored in the ~/illinois_framework directory
- Files uploaded to the site are stored in ~/illinois_framework/docroot/sites/default/files
- The MySQL database username and password is stored in ~/.my.cnf
- If you lose/forget your Drupal admin password, you can reset it with drush using the command
drush upwd admin "NEWPASSWORD"
Instructions for adding Shibboleth to your Illinois Framework site is in the wiki.
Security updates are regularly relased for Drupal and its modules, so it's vital to keep your site updated. To update your site, open the terminal for your site, cd to the directory ~/illinois_framework, and run the following commands:
composer update --with-all-dependencies --no-dev -o
drush updb -y; drush cr; drush ccr; drush config-distro-update -yThe above commands assume you have a drush alias set up already. See below for adding the alias to your site.
Version 4 of the framework was released 2/7/2024. Instructions on how to upgrade your site can be found in the wiki.
Version 3 of the framework was released 3/7/2023. Instructions on how to upgrade your site can be found in the wiki.
It's important to periodically back up your site. The most important part of a Drupal site is the database. The below commands will create a ~/backups folder and create a database backup of your site. It will also create a backup of your composer.json and composer.lock, which can be useful in restoring a site's code back to a previous state. Replace the YOUR_DB_NAME with the name of your database.
mkdir -p ~/backups
mysqldump YOUR_DB_NAME | gzip > ~/backups/db.$(date +%F.%H%M%S).sql.gz
tar cvf - ~/illinois_framework/composer* | gzip > ~/backups/composer.$(date +%F.%H%M%S).tar.gzDrush is installed and available for your Framework site at ~/illinois_framework/vendor/drush/drush/drush.
Drupal Console is installed and available for your Framework site at ~/illinois_framework/vendor/bin/drupal.
You can add the below alias commands to your ~/.bashrc to keep from having to type the whole path each time:
alias drush='$HOME/illinois_framework/vendor/drush/drush/drush'
alias drupal='$HOME/illinois_framework/vendor/bin/drupal'If you would like to extend the Illinois Framework with additional modules or themes, you need to use composer to add them to your site.
| Task | Composer |
|---|---|
| Installing a contrib project (latest version) | composer require drupal/PROJECT |
| Installing a contrib project (specific version) | composer require drupal/PROJECT:1.0.0-beta3 |
| Updating a single contrib project | composer update drupal/PROJECT |
You should commit the files in the ~/illinois_framework directory to source control. You can run git init in the ~/illnois_framework directory to initialize the directory as a git repository. After that, you'll want to commit the files and push them to a remote repository.
If you peek at the .gitignore, you'll see that certain directories, including all directories containing contributed projects, are excluded from source control. In a Composer-based project like this one, you SHOULD NOT commit your installed dependencies to source control.
When you set up the project, Composer will create a file called composer.lock, which is a list of which dependencies were installed, and in which versions. Commit composer.lock to source control! Then, when your colleagues want to spin up their own copies of the project, all they'll have to do is run composer install, which will install the correct versions of everything in composer.lock.
It's counterintuitive, but don't add drupal/core to your project's composer.json! The Illinois Framework manages Drupal core for you, so adding a direct dependency on Drupal core is likely to cause problems for you in the future.
Instructions on setting up a local Docker-based development environment are located at https://github.com/web-illinois/illinois_framework_localdev.