Install civicrm on drupal 8 using roundearth on windows - Sept 2019 version

Install civicrm on drupal 8 on windows.md

OBSOLETE

Variation of patch below has been merged into the roundearth plugin as of 2019-11-12, so shouldn't need this anymore.

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Intro

There's a problem that seems to have been around since about June 2019 where archive_tar is no longer able to extract the civicrm download .tar.gz file on windows so the install fails. These steps will get it installed.

Steps

• composer create-project roundearth/drupal-civicrm-project:8.x-dev some-dir
  • It will fail with an error about unable to extract.
• Apply hack patch to vendor/roundearth/civicrm-composer-plugin/src/Handler.php

--- Handler.php
+++ Handler.php.new
@@ -195,8 +195,10 @@
       $this->filesystem->dumpFile($civicrm_archive_file, fopen($civicrm_archive
_url, 'r'));

       $this->output("<info>Extracting CiviCRM {$civicrm_version} release...</in
fo>");
-      $extract_successful = (new \Archive_Tar($civicrm_archive_file, "gz"))->ex
tract($civicrm_extract_path);
-      if (!$extract_successful) {
+      try {
+        $phar = new \PharData($civicrm_archive_file);
+        $phar->extractTo($civicrm_extract_path);
+      } catch (Exception $e) {
         throw new \RuntimeException("Unable to extract: $civicrm_archive_file")
;
       }

• Delete vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core.
  • This is important because otherwise it won't trigger the plugin to do its thing in the next step.
• From the root folder where you installed the project, type:
  • composer require civicrm/civicrm-drupal-8
• Install drupal normally, e.g. visiting http://site/install.php.
• If logged in to website, logout.
• From the root folder where you installed the project, type:
  • vendor\drush\drush\drush.bat en -y -l host.name.org civicrm
  • • Replace host.name.org with the correct domain name, e.g. example.org. Without the -l parameter you'll probably end up with http://DEFAULT as civi's BASEURL.
• Log back in
• The civi menus will look messed up. So as it says in the roundearth readme, update the resource url by going to /civicrm/admin/setting/url?reset=1 and setting the value to [cms.root]/libraries/civicrm.

after I ran composer require civicrm/civicrm-drupal-8

- Can only install one of: psr/log[1.1.0, 1.0.2].
- Can only install one of: psr/log[1.1.x-dev, 1.0.2].
- Installation request for psr/log (locked at 1.0.2) -> satisfiable by psr/log[1.0.2].

Potential causes:

• A typo in the package name
• The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting
  see https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#minimum-stability for more details.
• It's a private package and you forgot to add a custom repository to find it

Read https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md for further common problems.

Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.

@basneve
(a) Is this a fresh install from scratch created by the create-project command above? and (b) where are you running it from? It should be the top-level folder of the project.

Updated gist with alternate PharData patch. Also see https://gitlab.com/roundearth/civicrm-composer-plugin/merge_requests/8