Using the Drush command-line tool

Drush is a command-line tool that interacts with Drupal to perform actions such as installing Drupal or performing various maintenance tasks. In this recipe, we will add Drush to our Drupal site and use it to install the Drupal site.

Warning

This example uses commands that will cause data loss if you have an existing installed site.

Getting ready

When using DDEV, you must SSH into the web application container using ddev ssh to interact with Drush.

How to do it…

1. Open a terminal and navigate to your Drupal code base.
2. Add Drush via Composer using the require command:

   composer require drush/drush

3. Execute the site:install command to install Drupal:

   php vendor/bin/drush site:install --account-pass=admin

4. Once the installation has finished, use the user:login command to generate a one-time login link to access the Drupal site. Your browser should automatically open if you do not click the returned link:

   php vendor/bin...