Sometimes you might need to get a local dev environment up quickly for testing, demonstrating, or just evaluating Backdrop and or contrib modules. I've found this 5 min recipe helpful.
- Download Backdrop with Drush
drush dlb backdrop --path=myawesomeapp
- Move into your newly downloaded Backdrop directory
cd myawesomeapp
- Initialize a LAMP or LEMP stack with Lando
lando init --recipe backdrop
- Start your new Backdrop app
lando start
Lando will give you some URLs that you can visit, install, and use Backdrop with.
Pro Tip
You can also quickly install Backdrop with Drush:
lando drush si --db-url=mysql://backdrop:backdrop@database/backdrop
Nothing here requires you to use Lando. If you already have a local LAMP stack you can use the drush commands independently of Lando.
Comments
I'm trying this lando drush si command, but I will like to set the profile I want to install. Is that possible? I've seen in https://drushcommands.com/drush-8x/core/backdrop-site-install/ that there is an argument for the profile, but I cannot make it work.
I tried
lando drush si profile_name ...
and
lando drush si "profile_name" ...
with no luck.
Also, i tried to set the --account-pass=mypass and cannot get in because of an incorrect password error message.
@robertgarrigos I've not tried teh
--profileor--account-passoptions. But looks like you've filed an issue in the drush queue https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/drush/issues/150. I think that is the right place to continue the discussion.Perhaps we need one for the
--account-passflag as well?Even w/ just a regular
drush siI've noticed that the provided password does not seem to work any longer ... so I think maybe some of the password hashing changes in Backdrop have broken this, so we may need to adjust in drush.