Setting Up a Drupal Development Environment with DDEV

DDEV is a powerful tool that simplifies the process of setting up local development environments for PHP applications , including Drupal. In this guide, I'll walk you through the steps to install DDEV and configure a Drupal development environment. Requirements: DDEV Docker Once you have this, create your Drupal project directory: mkdir drupal-site Into your directory run: composer create-project drupal/recommended-project:^9 . At the moment I created this project, running composer create-project drupal/recommended-project . automatically would download Drupal 10, which requires PHP version ">= 8.3.0". This would trigger a fatal error: Fatal error: Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.3.0". You are running 8.1.27. in /var/www/html/vendor/composer/platform_check.php on line 24 because the DDEV container has an older PHP version. That’s why I explicitly asked for Drupal 9 in the command. Next, configure DDEV: ddev config You wi