Setup drupal 8 using aquia/blt on nginx & Ubuntu

Here we are going to setup aquia/blt drupal 8 project on Nginx webserver, and Ubuntu OS withoud using Drupal VM. I assume you have already installed following:

• Nginx
• PHP 5.6+ (though PHP 7.1+ is recommended)
• MySql
• Git
• Composer
• Drush

  sudo apt-get install git composer drush
  composer global require "hirak/prestissimo:^0.3"
  

Creating a new project with BLT

In this post I am going to create a project named "blt-drupal.com"

  cd /var/www
  

Run the following command to create your new project and download all dependencies (including BLT).

  composer create-project --no-interaction acquia/blt-project blt-drupal.com
  

Restart your terminal if you are using BTL first time, so that it can detect BLT alias.

  cd blt-drupal.com
  

Now make changes in your /var/www/blt-drupal.com/blt/blt.yml if needed, such as to choose an install profile. By default, BLT will install sites using the lightning profile. You can change this to any other core, contributed, or custom profile in your codebase. Make sure to download the profile if necessary, e.g., composer require acquia/headless_lightning:~1.1.0.

  profile:
    name: lightning -(Change this to your own)
  local:
    protocol: http
    hostname: 'local.${project.machine_name}.com' - (${project.machine_name}.com)
  

Create a database for this site ex: blt-drupal and add its entry in 'local.settings.php' located at : /var/www/blt-drupal.com/docroot/sites/default/settings. If local.settings.php not found, enter this command to generate it.

  blt blt:init:settings
  

Now, make following changes in local.drush.yml:

  options:
    uri: 'http://local.blted8.com' - (http://blt-drupal.com)
  

Now its time to install Drupal, simply hit:

  blt setup

  Setting up local environment for site default.
  Using drush alias @self
  > source:build
  > tests:behat:init:config
  > source:build:composer
  Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
  Gathering patches for root package.
  Loading composer repositories with package information
  Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
  Nothing to install or update
  Generating autoload files
  > blt:init:git-hooks
  Installing pre-commit git hook...
  Installing commit-msg git hook...
  > blt:init:settings
  Hash salt already exists.
  > source:build:frontend
  > source:build:frontend-reqs
  > source:build:frontend-assets
  > drupal:deployment-identifier:init
  Generating deployment identifier...
  > drupal:install
  > internal:drupal:install
  [Acquia\Blt\Robo\Tasks\DrushTask] Running /var/www/blt-drupal.com/vendor/bin/drush @self site-install lightning install_configure_form.update_status_module='array(FALSE,FALSE)' install_configure_form.enable_update_status_module=NULL --sites-subdir=default --site-name='BLTed 8' --site-mail=no-reply@acquia.com --account-name='P.v+3Nw6di' --account-mail=no-reply@acquia.com --locale=en -v --ansi in /var/www/blt-drupal.com/docroot
   [info] Executing: mysql --defaults-file=/tmp/drush_yfp6b9 --database=blt-drupal --host=localhost --port=3306 --silent  < /tmp/drush_otdtpJ > /dev/null

   You are about to DROP all tables in your 'blt-drupal' database. Do you want to continue? (yes/no) [yes]:
   > yes

   [info] Sites directory sites/default already exists - proceeding.
   [info] Executing: mysql --defaults-file=/tmp/drush_t0tRYa --database=blt-drupal --host=localhost --port=3306 --silent  < /tmp/drush_j0tr5E > /dev/null
   [info] Executing: mysql --defaults-file=/tmp/drush_PKeZVc --database=blt-drupal --host=localhost --port=3306 --silent  < /tmp/drush_P9xnXG
   [notice] Starting Drupal installation. This takes a while.
   [success] Installation complete.  User name: P.v+3Nw6di  User password: v4MUtB7Qju
  [Acquia\Blt\Robo\Tasks\DrushTask] Done in 11:39
  > drupal:config:import
  [warning] BLT will NOT import configuration, /var/www/blt-drupal.com/docroot/../config/default/core.extension.yml was not found.
  > drupal:toggle:modules
  Executing drush pm-enable for modules defined in modules.local.enable...
  [Acquia\Blt\Robo\Tasks\DrushTask] Running /var/www/blt-drupal.com/vendor/bin/drush @self pm-enable dblog devel seckit views_ui --no-interaction --ansi in /var/www/blt-drupal.com/docroot
  The following module(s) will be enabled: devel, seckit
   [success] Successfully enabled: devel, seckit
  [Acquia\Blt\Robo\Tasks\DrushTask] Done in 19.296s
  Executing drush pm-uninstall for modules defined in modules.local.uninstall...
  [Acquia\Blt\Robo\Tasks\DrushTask] Running /var/www/blt-drupal.com/vendor/bin/drush @self pm-uninstall acquia_connector shield --no-interaction --ansi in /var/www/blt-drupal.com/docroot
   [success] Successfully uninstalled: acquia_connector, shield
  [Acquia\Blt\Robo\Tasks\DrushTask] Done in 0.937s
  > blt:init:shell-alias
  The BLT alias is already installed and up to date
  

BLT project drupal 8 is setup, now we need to setup server-block in nginx for domain "http://blt-drupal.com" and also make the entry in hosts file.

  cd /etc/nginx/conf.d
  vi blt-drupal.conf

  and add the following code in that file.
  server {
    listen   80;
    server_name  www.blt-drupal.com;
    rewrite ^/(.*) http://blt-drupal.com/$1 permanent;
  }

  server {
    listen   80;
    server_name blt-drupal.com;

    access_log /var/www/blt-drupal.com/access.log;
    error_log /var/www/blt-drupal.com/error.log;

    root   /var/www/blt-drupal.com/docroot/;
    index  index.php;

    # For Drupal >= 7 clean url
    location / {
      try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    location ~ \.php$ {
      include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }
  }

  add following entry in /etc/hosts file
  #Acquia BLT project drupal 8
  127.0.1.1 blt-drupal.com www.blt-drupal.com
  

Your are done, now visit your site: blt-drupal.com