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Drupal 8 + Lando + Github + BLT + Pipelines + Acquia Cloud + Cloudflare - ohmy!

george — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:15:30 +0000

Drupal 8 + Lando + Github + BLT + Pipelines + Acquia Cloud + Cloudflare - ohmy!

Posted by george on 13 March, 2020 - 16:15

As part of my role at work I am lucky to have access to some fantastic tools (and a few brains!) which have meant I have been able to setup my personal site with a few good tools from work.

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Drupal 8: Mystery of missing Body field post migration

george — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:58:34 +0000

Drupal 8: Mystery of missing Body field post migration

Posted by george on 3 March, 2016 - 17:58

Post migration of content from Drupal 6 (using 8.0.4) an odd thing happened! All the blog body field entries were empty, nothing, nada, zip, zero. After fiddling and faffing with things for a little longer than I am comfortable admitting I went to create a new blog post as a test and then noticed that of course the input formats (aka Text formats) had also been migrated.

Editing the "Filtered HTML" format that was imported threw up this:

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Drupal 8: State of migrate

george — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:48:57 +0000

Drupal 8: State of migrate

Posted by george on 26 June, 2015 - 18:48

So it seems that there's a few issues which hold up a d6-d8 migration, some are essentially core features (Taxonomy term values referenced on nodes do not migrate (D6)), and some which obviously have weight but have failed to garner any attention to date (d6 Imagecache -> d8 Image module migration should be included in core).

More for another day now...

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Drupal 8: Success! (mostly)

george — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:46:23 +0000

Drupal 8: Success! (mostly)

Posted by george on 26 June, 2015 - 14:46

So having fiddled with the migration via drush a little, and having restored the database a few times along the way (thanks drush ard/arr) I now have all my content in D8. Seems like taxonomy terms didn't make it (but vocabularies did).

To get the migration to complete without skipping all the nodes completely I had to apply a patch from Skip the row when we don't recognize the the field type to get nodes working.

Seems like Taxonony terms also need work.

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Drupal 8: D6 to D8 Running the initial migration

george — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:34:24 +0000

Drupal 8: D6 to D8 Running the initial migration

Posted by george on 26 June, 2015 - 11:34

So with the default manifest.yml from d.o, and running the migrate-manifest command:

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Drupal 8: Getting ready to migrate

george — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:07:26 +0000

Drupal 8: Getting ready to migrate

Posted by george on 26 June, 2015 - 10:07

So first logical steps besides fiddling with all the features in D8 is to get the migration from this old D6 site setup. So let's begin by enabling the migrate and migrate UI modules.

Next step according to the instructions at Executing a Drupal 8 migration seems to be to ignore the UI entirely and head back to drush again.

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Drupal 8: Starting a fresh

george — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:41:53 +0000

Drupal 8: Starting a fresh

Posted by george on 25 June, 2015 - 16:41

So looking with fresh eyes at my semi working version of D8, which was installed via the web based installer it was clear that something was just fundamentally wrong. So as with so many Drupal based activities it seems logical to turn to drush (you'll need the version that works with drush 8 of course) to save the day!

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Drupal 8: Installation, fixing permissions

george — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:34:03 +0000

Drupal 8: Installation, fixing permissions

Posted by george on 17 June, 2015 - 22:34

So it turns out that my own stupidity (or smart arse idea!) caught me out. I install drupal core in a separate directory out of the web root (docroot!) directory and symlink back to it. My web root looks a little like this:

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Drupal 8: First stumbling block

george — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:36:26 +0000

Drupal 8: First stumbling block

Posted by george on 17 June, 2015 - 16:36

So the first challenge has been to get the install working. I seem to be stuck on the Requirements install screen! No combination of file or directory permissions, or manually creating the files and settings.php/services.yml files seems to work.

Fun times!

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Moving to Drupal 8

george — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:35:58 +0000

Moving to Drupal 8

Posted by george on 17 June, 2015 - 11:35

As this blog is pretty much redundant as anything useful in my personal life, and I tend to put updates and interesting things into Facebook (stupid walled gardens!), I am going to use this blog as a means to document some learnings around Drupal 8 and specifically a move from this install of Drupal 6 directly up to Drupal 8.

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