![]() And then I realised I had forgotten ALL the things. The odds of this are very very low, but because it was a development environment I could trash I just went ahead and forced the update. Okay, no surprise there.įirst pass, just update the thing and see if I get lucky. Drupal had since moved on to 8.8.6, and there were 50 commits upstream (I think), when I first logged into the dashboard. The last time I looked at this site was (according to Git on Pantheon) 2 years ago when I updated to 8.4.2. You mean you FORGOT how to setup locally? They provide you easy one-click options to pull your database and files between environments. The workflow is also very good IMO as you’re given a three environments, dev, test and live. Pantheon will apply updates every time there is a new one version of Drupal released but it is up to you to commit them. Very solid platform option for anyone who is still doing Drupal today. I made an executive decision to host the website on Pantheon and this had proven to be a good decision. But I guess muscle memory is a thing, because after a couple hours of troubleshooting, things kind of came back. A story, which I need to record down as notes to MYSELF, just in case I need to update the site again in a couple years… □ Some background, skip if you’re boredįor some background, I did do a write-up of the project back then, but I clearly skipped over some steps that I most likely thought were trivial at the time.įast forward to today, I had already forgot so much of setting up Drupal on one’s local machine, it was like a joke that wasn’t remotely funny. HOWEVER, everything before I could even get to that, was another story. To be fair, I was not that far off in estimating the work specific to his requirements. In my mind, I was like, this shouldn’t be too hard, I can totally do it in half an hour or something. Spoiler alert: the company still exists but more as a side-gig kind of thing.Īlmost three years later, I get a ping from him asking if I could help out with some tweaks because they had since moved their focus from machinery and machine parts to servicing and wanted to update the home page content. It was a proper paid project, which really did come at a good time because I was about eight months fun-employed at the time trying to get my own company off the ground. The last time I wrote about Drupal was 2017, when I built the company website for my friend’s husband.
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