Creating a New Site with Fetcher

drush fetcher-create (drush fec) creates and installs a new site.

Create a fresh Drupal 7 site 'foo'

drush fec foo 7

Create a fresh Drupal 8 site 'bar'

drush fec bar 8

Asking for a specific release.

You can use any release of Drupal like drush dl supports. drush fec baz 8.1.1

Create a fresh site using an install profile

drush fec baz --profile=panopoly-7.x-1.x

Use drush help fec to view all options to fetcher-create.

What does fetcher-create do?

Fetcher-create: - downloads the code - creates an Apache VirtualHost - creates a MySQL database and database user - installs Drupal

If you are creating a site on your local machine, be sure to add an entry to your machine's hosts file to point your new site's domain (e.g. 'foo.local') to 127.0.0.1 (or the IP of your virtual machine).

Folder layout

Fetcher creates a "working directory" with a specific layout for its uses. That directory is laid out as follows:

• public_files - The Drupal public files directory which will be symlinked to sites/default/files by default. Generally group writable and group owned by the webserver.
• private_files - (Optional) A private file directory to be used by drupal. Generally group writable and group owned by the webserver.
• logs - A folder for logs with files created for mail.log, access.log and watchdog.log. Logs used in development, not recommended for production.
• code - A folder containing the actual checkout from the VCS repository.
• releases - (Optional).
  • 1.0.1 - An example of a release folder for a tag called 1.0.1.
• webroot - A symlink to the Drupal root (usually the root of /code in this directory).

The settings.php file will be dynamically generated appropriately to the version of Drupal. You can include a site-settings.php file in the sites/default folder and it will be dynamically included from the settings.php file. This is the prefered method of including PHP files.