Mercury Reader requires an extra php extension outside of what lando's drupal8 recipe typically provides.
Adjust your lando.yml Landofile to include the following:
services:
appserver:
build_as_root:
- apt-get update -y
- apt-get install libxslt1-dev -y
- docker-php-ext-install xsl
- docker-php-ext-enable xsl
Rebuild your lando environment to install the libraries:
lando rebuild -y
Drupal 8.9.x websites managed with Composer can be updated to Drupal 9.x by following the steps below.
Follow the directives on the Upgrading to Drupal 9 page:
As with any major update, make a full backup (filesystem and database) before you begin.
Submodules allow you to keep a Git repository as a subdirectory of another Git repository. This lets you clone another repository into your project and keep your commits separate.
To define the submodules for the various GT Theme components, add the following sections to the .gitmodules file for each repository:
For most general use cases, we recommend the OIT Web Hosting turnkey install option of Drupal 8: when requesting a new Web Hosting account, you can mark the Drupal Express option on the request form and your account will be pre-loaded with a ready-to-use version of Drupal 8 complete with the official Georgia Tech web theme and page layout system.
Media Library in recent versions of Drupal 8 and Drupal 9 offers a lot of great functionality for managing and reusing images (and other media types), but out-of-the-box it has a notable accessibility issue.
Notes, tips, and tricks for upgrading a Drupal 8 site to Drupal 9
The following sections describe options for setting up Drupal 7 on OIT Web Hosting. These steps will give you a generic Drupal 7 installation – if you'd rather start with a more turnkey configuration, you may want to look at Drupal Express.
The quickest way to get Drupal setup is to use the Installatron Applications Installer, which will download and setup Drupal for you.
List of potentially useful Layout Builder Extensions within the Layout Builder Ecosystem:
Layout Builder Restrictions - 8.x-2.4 as of 12/11/2019
Lets you restrict which block types appear in Layout Builder's Add Block panel - very useful
Whether you are an experienced Drupal developer / site administrator who has come to Georgia Tech, or an existing staff member asked to venture into the world of Drupal, you may be wondering how you should get started with using Drupal for a Georgia Tech website.
The Lando Drupal 7 recipe does not come with mail functionality out-of-the-box. However, DrupalEasy has written straight-forward documentation on how to enable server mail functionality.
This is helpful for enabling mail notifications for password resets, trigger/Rules configuration.