Installation of Drupal 8 Sandbox
Why Use the Sandbox version?
If you want to give drupal a try, but you're unsure of how it'll look like or want to check how it works, the sandbox version is just for you. If you already know how to set up drupal on your lamp server, then you'll have no problem at all to set up the sandbox version. If, somehow, you can't figure it out, then you can just follow the simple steps below and you'll be there.In the steps below, we'll use Sandbox version of Drupal to generate a new issue, and patch it using Git.
Requirements:
Steps:
Step 1: Clone itStart by opening your terminal and clone the repository by running the following the command:
git clone --branch 8.x https://git.drupal.org/sandbox/bhirsch/1388780.git drupal-sandboxThis command will clone drupal 8 sandbox and the all the files will be in a folder 'drupal-sandbox'. You can change the name of the folder to any name you want.
After cloning, change your directory and move into the folder. Make a copy of the default.settings.php file inside sites/default/ and create a new directory called sites/default/files.
Ensure that you make both of them writable by changing their permissions.
Step 2: Installation
Open up your browser and run the installation by running localhost.
Note: You can check my blog post on how to install Drupal 8(Not Sandbox) on LAMP Server.
Write a new patch[Rewrite URL]
Almost all of the issues reported, were made in an attempt to understand the drupalladder. Below are the steps to write a patch about URL Rewriting Issues.
Firstly, click here to open the Drupal 8 Sandbox Issues, and click on Create New Issue.
Change Componenent > Miscellaneous and Category > Bug Report
Then write the title of the issue in the Title input box and a summary below.
Creating a branch with Git
sudo git branch 'yourbranch'
Git checkout followed by the branch will move to the branch.
sudo git checkout 'yourbranch'
Edit the required file. In this case, we'll edit the file core/module/path/path.module
sudo vim core/module/path/path.module
To see the changes you made, run Git show in the same directory on your terminal. It will output all the changes that happened recently.
You're Done. Open up your browser and see if you see the following: