I am going absolutely insane. I have been up for several hours scouring the internet, installing, removing, installing, removing, and I CANNOT get Drupal (7 or 8) to install at the root of a site (hosted Linux server, not local or vm). If I try to run the drush si with the package outside of the target site’s directory structure I get the site-install needs a higher bootstrap error. Of course, if I move the the install base into the root of the target site’s directory, it installs fine…in a subfolder with the name of the install base! I have followed all of the documentation, reviewed hundreds of comments on multiple sites, watched YouTube videos, looked at Pluralsight tutorials. I am at a loss. I saw suggestions to edit the settings.php file (which the install package creates during the install process and doesn’t exist beforehand…). I saw suggestions to rename files that are not yet existant because the install hasn’t happened. I’m sure much of these apply to an upgrade, but not a new site install. Can anyone please offer some insight into this. Installing with drush is supposed to make things easier. I have now wasted 4 hours trying to figure this out when I could have just manually installed it. But now it’s principle. I want to know. Besides I might have to do this again for other sites. Thank you in advance.
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