
the 7.3 that ships with BLT out of the box).

Here are a few things I did…Ĭhanged the PHP version to 7.4 (vs. The next step is to start tweaking the VM config. BLT provides a recipe for this! I just did: blt recipes:drupalvm:initĪgain, when BLT asked me if I wanted to provision the VM I did not. The next thing I did was configure my Drupal VM but I did not provision it. If there’s interest, I can post a similar tutorial for doing this with Lando in the future.

composer require acquia/blt-drupal-vmĪ brief note: I have been doing a lot with Lando recently! But I am working with a customer who is already using Drupal VM, so I did this work there. composer create-project -no-interaction acquia/drupal-recommended-project multisite Here’s the command I ran to instantiate the project locally. Either will work, but the Acquia version comes pre-baked with some of the BLT stuff in it. I tend to use acquia/drupal-recommended-project over drupal/recommended-project. Obviously hosting platforms can and do support multisite platforms of this size and scale but trying to manage that many locally might be a bit challenging. I also want to give a general disclaimer that if you are planning on running a multisite platform with “hundreds or thousands” of sites, setting up a local multisite for all of those sites might not be advised. īefore I jump in, a shoutout to my colleague Beverly Lanning who has extensively documented this process over on Acquia’s Knowledge Base (and this material was very helpful as I worked through this process last week). If you want to see the end result and/or follow along, I have created a public facing Github repository that you can look at for an example. Note: as of BLT 12 you may need to also add the plugin if you get any errors about the Multisite recipe not existing.

I’ll be using the following tools in this tutorial: That’s really useful background information, but let’s take it a step farther: what if you want to experiment with Drupal 9 multisite? What if you want to take it for a whirl? Unfortunately it’s something you can just “do.” It takes a bit of effort to get everything up and running. I spent some time in late 2020 blogging about some of the planning you need to do if you want to go with Drupal multisite for your platform.
