Get set up quickly

In this tutorial, we're going to be able to post content to a Drupal content type using the REST API. To do it, we're going to start from scratch with a fresh install and configure everything for the API so that you can see how to do it on your site.

  • Check that you have PHP installed
  • Create the database Drupal is going to use
  • Install a fresh copy of Drupal 8 with drush
  • Start up the webserver
  • Install the site through browser

Requirements

Do you have php installed? If not maybe this post isn't for you :)

% php -v

Let's make a database for our fresh Drupal 8 install. This assumes you have a .my.cnf file in your home directory so you don't have to put the password for root in.

% mysqladmin create drupalrestdemo

Install Drupal 8 from drush

One you do it this way, you'll never go back.

Make sure you have drush

% which drush

If that's blank

% brew install drush

Install Drupal from the command line

% drush dl drupal-8 --select

Let's use an oft overlooked feature of PHP - it comes with a webserver. Start it up so that we can use a browser to finish installing Drupal.

% cd [into the folder drush just created for Drupal]
% php -S 127.0.0.1:9200

Leave this window open. You now have a webserver running on port 9200 for your Drupal site.

Open up a browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:9200 and go through the install steps for Drupal. Meet you back here in 2 minutes.

Check it out on youtube.com: Drupal install freezeframe

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