Importing an application through the Cloud Platform user interface

Prerequisites¶

• Create a site archive file to be able to import your site archive.

Importing an existing Drupal site archive in Cloud Platform¶

To import an existing Drupal site archive into a Cloud Platform environment by using the Cloud Platform user interface:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.

2. Select your application and select the Development environment.

   If you do not want to overwrite the contents of any of your current applications with an imported application, you can create a new application in your Cloud Platform subscription.

3. On the Overview page in your development environment, click Install Drupal.

   The system displays the Install Distribution page.

4. Click Import from URL.
5. Enter the URL of the Drush site archive that you want to import.

6. Click Import to start the import task.

   The import task takes several minutes. The Cloud Platform user interface reports on completion of the import task.

7. To verify that Cloud Platform imported your application, click the URL link on the Overview page.

   After Cloud Platform imports your codebase, files, and database, it adds the include statement to the application’s settings.php file. Therefore, your code can access the correct database. For more information about this file, see Acquia require line.

   To start developing your application on Cloud Platform, check out a local copy of the repository using Git.