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Now that your code contains all of the configuration to deploy on Platform.sh, it’s time to make your Drupal site itself ready to run on a Platform.sh environment. There are a number of additional steps that are either required or recommended, depending on how well you want to optimize your site.

Install the Config Reader Anchor to this heading

You can get all information about a deployed environment, including how to connect to services, through environment variables. Your app can access these variables.

The following examples use it, so install it through Composer if you haven’t already.

composer require platformsh/config-reader

settings.php Anchor to this heading

settings.php is the main Drupal environment-configuration file. In a stock Drupal installation it contains the database credentials, various other settings, and an enormous amount of comments.

In the Drupal template, the settings.php file is mostly replaced with a stub that contains only the most basic configuration and then includes a settings.platformsh.php and settings.local.php file, if they exist. The latter is a common Drupal pattern, and the settings.local.php file should never be committed to Git. It contains configuration that’s specific to your local development environment, such as a local development database.

The settings.platformsh.php file contains glue code that configures Drupal based on the information available in Platform.sh’s environment variables. That includes the database credentials, Redis caching, and file system paths.

The file itself is a bit long, but reasonably self-explanatory.

<?php
/**
 * @file
 * Platform.sh settings.
 */

use Drupal\Core\Installer\InstallerKernel;

$platformsh = new \Platformsh\ConfigReader\Config();

// Set up a config sync directory.
//
// This is defined inside the read-only "config" directory, deployed via Git.
$settings['config_sync_directory'] = '../config/sync';

// Configure the database.
if ($platformsh->hasRelationship('database')) {
  $creds = $platformsh->credentials('database');
  $databases['default']['default'] = [
    'driver' => $creds['scheme'],
    'database' => $creds['path'],
    'username' => $creds['username'],
    'password' => $creds['password'],
    'host' => $creds['host'],
    'port' => $creds['port'],
    'pdo' => [PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_COMPRESS => !empty($creds['query']['compression'])],
    'init_commands' => [
      'isolation_level' => 'SET SESSION TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED',
    ],
  ];
}

// Enable verbose error messages on development branches, but not on the production branch.
// You may add more debug-centric settings here if desired to have them automatically enable
// on development but not production.
if (isset($platformsh->branch)) {
  // Production type environment.
  if ($platformsh->onProduction() || $platformsh->onDedicated()) {
    $config['system.logging']['error_level'] = 'hide';
  } // Development type environment.
  else {
    $config['system.logging']['error_level'] = 'verbose';
  }
}

// Enable Redis caching.
if ($platformsh->hasRelationship('redis') && !InstallerKernel::installationAttempted() && extension_loaded('redis') && class_exists('Drupal\redis\ClientFactory')) {
  $redis = $platformsh->credentials('redis');

  // Set Redis as the default backend for any cache bin not otherwise specified.
  $settings['cache']['default'] = 'cache.backend.redis';
  $settings['redis.connection']['host'] = $redis['host'];
  $settings['redis.connection']['port'] = $redis['port'];

  // Apply changes to the container configuration to better leverage Redis.
  // This includes using Redis for the lock and flood control systems, as well
  // as the cache tag checksum. Alternatively, copy the contents of that file
  // to your project-specific services.yml file, modify as appropriate, and
  // remove this line.
  $settings['container_yamls'][] = 'modules/contrib/redis/example.services.yml';

  // Allow the services to work before the Redis module itself is enabled.
  $settings['container_yamls'][] = 'modules/contrib/redis/redis.services.yml';

  // Manually add the classloader path, this is required for the container cache bin definition below
  // and allows to use it without the redis module being enabled.
  $class_loader->addPsr4('Drupal\\redis\\', 'modules/contrib/redis/src');

  // Use redis for container cache.
  // The container cache is used to load the container definition itself, and
  // thus any configuration stored in the container itself is not available
  // yet. These lines force the container cache to use Redis rather than the
  // default SQL cache.
  $settings['bootstrap_container_definition'] = [
    'parameters' => [],
    'services' => [
      'redis.factory' => [
        'class' => 'Drupal\redis\ClientFactory',
      ],
      'cache.backend.redis' => [
        'class' => 'Drupal\redis\Cache\CacheBackendFactory',
        'arguments' => ['@redis.factory', '@cache_tags_provider.container', '@serialization.phpserialize'],
      ],
      'cache.container' => [
        'class' => '\Drupal\redis\Cache\PhpRedis',
        'factory' => ['@cache.backend.redis', 'get'],
        'arguments' => ['container'],
      ],
      'cache_tags_provider.container' => [
        'class' => 'Drupal\redis\Cache\RedisCacheTagsChecksum',
        'arguments' => ['@redis.factory'],
      ],
      'serialization.phpserialize' => [
        'class' => 'Drupal\Component\Serialization\PhpSerialize',
      ],
    ],
  ];
}

if ($platformsh->inRuntime()) {
  // Configure private and temporary file paths.
  if (!isset($settings['file_private_path'])) {
    $settings['file_private_path'] = $platformsh->appDir . '/private';
  }
  if (!isset($settings['file_temp_path'])) {
    $settings['file_temp_path'] = $platformsh->appDir . '/tmp';
  }

// Configure the default PhpStorage and Twig template cache directories.
  if (!isset($settings['php_storage']['default'])) {
    $settings['php_storage']['default']['directory'] = $settings['file_private_path'];
  }
  if (!isset($settings['php_storage']['twig'])) {
    $settings['php_storage']['twig']['directory'] = $settings['file_private_path'];
  }

  // Set the project-specific entropy value, used for generating one-time
  // keys and such.
  $settings['hash_salt'] = empty($settings['hash_salt']) ? $platformsh->projectEntropy : $settings['hash_salt'];

  // Set the deployment identifier, which is used by some Drupal cache systems.
  $settings['deployment_identifier'] = $settings['deployment_identifier'] ?? $platformsh->treeId;
}

// The 'trusted_hosts_pattern' setting allows an admin to restrict the Host header values
// that are considered trusted.  If an attacker sends a request with a custom-crafted Host
// header then it can be an injection vector, depending on how the Host header is used.
// However, Platform.sh already replaces the Host header with the route that was used to reach
// Platform.sh, so it is guaranteed to be safe.  The following line explicitly allows all
// Host headers, as the only possible Host header is already guaranteed safe.
$settings['trusted_host_patterns'] = ['.*'];

// Import variables prefixed with 'drupalsettings:' into $settings
// and 'drupalconfig:' into $config.
foreach ($platformsh->variables() as $name => $value) {
  $parts = explode(':', $name);
  list($prefix, $key) = array_pad($parts, 3, null);
  switch ($prefix) {
    // Variables that begin with `drupalsettings` or `drupal` get mapped
    // to the $settings array verbatim, even if the value is an array.
    // For example, a variable named drupalsettings:example-setting' with
    // value 'foo' becomes $settings['example-setting'] = 'foo';
    case 'drupalsettings':
    case 'drupal':
      $settings[$key] = $value;
      break;
    // Variables that begin with `drupalconfig` get mapped to the $config
    // array.  Deeply nested variable names, with colon delimiters,
    // get mapped to deeply nested array elements. Array values
    // get added to the end just like a scalar. Variables without
    // both a config object name and property are skipped.
    // Example: Variable `drupalconfig:conf_file:prop` with value `foo` becomes
    // $config['conf_file']['prop'] = 'foo';
    // Example: Variable `drupalconfig:conf_file:prop:subprop` with value `foo` becomes
    // $config['conf_file']['prop']['subprop'] = 'foo';
    // Example: Variable `drupalconfig:conf_file:prop:subprop` with value ['foo' => 'bar'] becomes
    // $config['conf_file']['prop']['subprop']['foo'] = 'bar';
    // Example: Variable `drupalconfig:prop` is ignored.
    case 'drupalconfig':
      if (count($parts) > 2) {
        $temp = &$config[$key];
        foreach (array_slice($parts, 2) as $n) {
          $prev = &$temp;
          $temp = &$temp[$n];
        }
        $prev[$n] = $value;
      }
      break;
  }
}

If you add additional services to your application, such as Solr, Elasticsearch, or RabbitMQ, you would add configuration for those services to the settings.platformsh.php file as well.

.environment Anchor to this heading

Platform.sh runs source .environment in the app root when a project starts, before cron commands are run, and when you log into an environment over SSH. That gives you a place to do extra environment variable setup before the app runs, including modifying the system $PATH and other shell level customizations.

The Drupal template includes a small .environment file. This modifies the $PATH to include the vendor/bin directory, where command line tools like Drush are stored.

You need the file or one like it if you plan to run drush as a command, such as in a cron task like the one in the app configuration from the previous step. If you don’t include the file, you get a command not found error.

.environment
# Allow executable app dependencies from Composer to be run from the path.
if [ -n "$PLATFORM_APP_DIR" -a -f "$PLATFORM_APP_DIR"/composer.json ] ; then
  bin=$(composer config bin-dir --working-dir="$PLATFORM_APP_DIR" --no-interaction 2>/dev/null)
  export PATH="${PLATFORM_APP_DIR}/${bin:-vendor/bin}:${PATH}"
fi

Drush configuration Anchor to this heading

Drush requires a YAML file that declares what its URL is. That value varies depending on the branch you’re on, so it can’t be included in a static file. Instead, the drush directory includes a short script that generates that file on each deploy, writing it to .drush/drush.yml. That allows Drush to run successfully on Platform.sh, such as to run cron tasks.

The script contents aren’t especially interesting. For the most part, you can download it from the template, place it in a drush directory in your project so they can be called from the deploy hook, and then forget about it.

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