In previous part of nginx vhost configuration, we've configured nginx to serve Drupal site directly (i.e. "http://example.com"). In this part we're going to configure nginx to serve Drupal as a sub-directory. For e.g. "http://localhost/drupal" or "http://example.com/subsite".
Drupal support majority of web-servers available in the market. Check list here.
To get Drupal 8 working with NGINX, we've to add a following configuration in NGINX vhost file:
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In Drupal 8, a service is any object managed by the services container. Drupal 8 introduces the concept of services to decouple reusable functionality and makes these services pluggable and replaceable by registering them with a service container. Services are used to perform operations like accessing the database or sending an e-mail.
Using below example we can check if module is installed or not :
By default Drupal stores all configuration into database. Below example shows how to remove / delete configuration object of 'automated_cron.settings', i.e. remove cron settings.
Modules are used to extend and customize Drupal Core. To install module normally we can navigate to "Admin => Extend" link in toolbar.
Like older versions of Drupal, Drupal 8 doesn't allow modules to be enable / disable. The only thing we can do is either install a module or completely uninstall it.
Below example shows how to install module using code:
Chosen is one of best jQuery library available to design HTML drop-down.
Here's how we can auto open chosen drop-down using small code snippet in jQuery. Below example uses the country drop-down.
In Drupal 8, the Site Maintenance status is stored in State API.
To put Site in Maintenance mode or to get Site out of Maintenance mode, we can use following code snippet:
In Drupal 8, module's weight is stored into ConfigFactory. Here's how to get or set module weight.
Get module weight:
As a developer we always been into position where we need to write a custom script which bootstrap's Drupal Core from code and do some operations. This is pretty straight forward when working single site. But when working with Multisite or sub-site, how we can do this.