Drupal: how to import the configuration on a different site
After cloning a site, next you will want to import the config file. Which you can do so by running the command:
drush cim -y
Hopefully it worked for you. As it didn't work out so well for me as the response was:
Drush a few common commands to import and reset
Working through and importing JSON data into a content type.
Drush migration commands
Check the status of the migration data
lando drush migrate-status
Reset the migration status
lando drush migrate-reset-status migratable_riverdata_json
Import JSON data
CLI using drush to drop tables in your db and reload
This is a relatively quick process, beginning with dropping the database tables
lando drush sql-drop -y
Import a MySQL database
lando db-import {filename}
such as
lando db-import riverdev.2022-10-03-1664769553.sql.gz
Rebuild cache
lando drush cr
Finally, export your config
Running Drupal 9 locally with lando using remote files and db
Import a database
lando db-import doj.sql
Enter the MySQL database
lando mysql -h database
This action will change the prompt as you are now in mysql. The prompt will start with
mysql>
Now change to the database that you want to use
use doj;
If you want to know what databases exist, then run
Drush - rebuild node access permissions
How do you rebuild node access permissions using CLI?
To rebuild permissions from the command-line using Drush:
drush php-eval 'node_access_rebuild();'
Or using Drupal Console:
drupal node:access:rebuild
Importing and Exporting a MySQL database with Drush
These steps are for Drupal 8 and 9.
Export your database
Order here is important. First you want to clear all the Drupal caches. Then export / dump the db the sql database to a file in your home directory.
drush cr
drush sql-dump > path/to/your/file/ourpout/sql-dump-file-name.sql
or
[notice] Module {module} has an entry in the system.schema key/value storage, but is not installed
Attempting to update the database, irrespective whether I run update.php or preferred method drush updb the following errors were appearing:
Set-up Docker for Drupal
Is Docker installed?
Check if your installation is ok and spin up Docker as well:
docker -D info
Using Docker
Now it's time to download and install docker images. Using the official images of MariaDB and Drupal. If you don’t specify the absolute URL to the image it will be searched and downloaded from Docker Hub. Tag 'latest' will be used by default.
Setting up synonyms on your Drupal site with a few errors you might experience along the way
Having Drupal Solr Search APi running, I thought adding synonyms to the mix would be a smooth process.
Install synonym module
I cam across a synonym module created by Jens Beltofte - Search API Synonym. Working on a Drupal 9.3.x installation, this module needs to be accessed via Git Search API Synonym,
Install / uninstall modules and themes using composer
Using Composer to Manage Projects and if required their dependencies
In this section, we're going to dive into how to use Composer to manage project dependencies. Specifically, we'll cover the following: