How to fully reproduce dev environment with ddev?

I’m git cloneing a project that is run with ddev. After doing

  • git clone
  • ddev config
  • ddev start

and opening the hosted site, I get various errors, for instance:

     Warning: include_once(/var/www/html/includes/file.phar.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in include_once() (line 716 of /var/www/html/includes/bootstrap.inc).     Warning: include_once(): Failed opening '/var/www/html/includes/file.phar.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in include_once() (line 716 of /var/www/html/includes/bootstrap.inc).     Error: Call to undefined function file_register_phar_wrapper() in drupal_environment_initialize() (line 717 of /var/www/html/includes/bootstrap.inc).     Notice: Undefined index: base_url in file_create_url() (line 395 of /var/www/html/includes/file.inc).     Notice: Undefined index: base_url in file_create_url() (line 395 of /var/www/html/includes/file.inc).     Notice: Undefined index: base_path in base_path() (line 2930 of /var/www/html/includes/common.inc).     Notice: Undefined index: base_path in base_path() (line 2930 of /var/www/html/includes/common.inc). 

My colleagues don’t get this of course. And the file file.phar.inc is indeed not present in the entire repo. This shows that this isn’t a small bug in the Drupal code but rather something is different about our environments. How can I get a reproducible build running on my machine? Should I copy the entire .ddev folder from a working installation to my machine and rerun ddev?

ps. I did try copying down file.phar.inc file from the Drupal source and this got rid of the include error, but generated many more other ones. I could go down the rabbit hole of fixing all of them but it works on other devs’ machines, so I think it’s an environment issue.

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