How to install drupal 11.2.0 without composer?

Why can’t you use Composer?

Not using Composer really isn’t supported.

I can't use composer because it's not included in the hosting plan, which I can't change because I'm not the owner of the site.

Up until version 11.1.8 I've always managed to install it manually.

Is there a full version to download like the previous ones?

Thanks and regards

What is the method you have been using to upgrade Drupal manually on that hosting platform? Please be specific.

Semplicemente scarico il file zip completo e sostituisco i vecchi files con i nuovi. Sono anni che funziona senza problemi.

lo zip drupal 11.1.8 è di 32.12 MB, mentre quello di drual 11.2.0 è di 4,39 MB

Ho bisogno della versione completa di drupal 11.2.0 per fare la stessa operazione.

Drupal 10 and above no longer support installing or updating with the zip files, unfortunately. Composer is a requirement.

Although, that does sound like a bug with the file archive. Interesting. We should stop making them entirely if they're that broken.

For what it's worth, @giordy, you should be aware that even if we are able to fix these zip archives, they will stop working sometime in the near future, possibly within a year or so. Officially, they have not been a supported mechanism to update a Drupal site since Drupal 10 was released in 2022, and I would expect that we will stop creating them entirely within the next year or so. Therefore, I would make plans to migrate this site off its current hosting however you can as soon as possible.

@giordy As an alternative it is possible to build a set of files to deploy, using Composer on your laptop or some other computer. This will require setup on your end and it’s a bit beyond the support we could offer here—in particular because it is not supported, but you could ask in Slack or elsewhere.

If you download and extract it, the vendor directory contains mostly empty folders, so this looks like a bug.

This is likely a drupalorg or infrastructure issue for packaging. I’ll leave the issue here for findability, and move once closer to a fix.

I think we do want to keep the tarball packaging in some form, it is somewhat of an end-to-end test of the subtree splits and project templates working correctly, and is one of the faster packaging steps.

As far as I can tell, the subtree splits and templates look good for now.

Tarball packaging would switch to recommended-project to support 📌 Remove drupal/legacy-project as a starting point for Drupal 10 Needs work , and removing / deprecating them will hopefully be more coordinated than them not being packaged correctly.

Looks like this was simply running on a too-old version of PHP. I am updating that, and adding exception handling if composer create-project fails.

I’ve deployed that fix and repackaged all 11.2.* releases. I believe that the downloads should be good now. And the additional error handling should show this type of problem earlier next time.

Please follow 📌 Remove drupal/legacy-project as a starting point for Drupal 10 Needs work and related issues for future changes to supported file layouts (recommended-project vs legacy-project) and packaging. The downloadable packages are generated with Composer, so you can use them as a starting point and get modules and other dependencies with Composer, but it is best to use Composer from the start, so you are familiar with it.

Thanks for fixing the zip file.

Unfortunately I do not agree with the choice that was made starting from Drupal 8.
Once there was Drupal 7, with hundreds and hundreds of modules. It was the favorite CMS of Italian schools. Only a few used Joomla or WordPress. Courses were held and beautiful sites were built. I too, for my school, made a site with everything that could be needed.
The forums were full of users who helped you develop these sites.
Then Drupal 8 arrived with the use of Composer. It is unthinkable that volunteer teachers or, even worse, secretarial staff, with everything they have to do, have the will and the ability to tinker with Composer. The forums have emptied and schools have chosen other cms.
In addition to schools there are freelancers, shops, artisans, parishes. How many use Drupal? Most of it is done with WordPress, but many use pre-packaged sites that can be found online. In addition to being easy to customize, they are also nice.
Now there is no one left in the Italian forums.
Drupal has become a cms only for professionals and I am not one; as long as I can manage the site without Composer, I will continue, and then ... I will have to look elsewhere.
In my opinion, things have become unnecessarily complicated.
As we are thinking about automatic updates of Drupal, we could have left the direct installation of the modules. For the dependencies, it was enough to implement Ludwig for all the modules and above all to ensure that the versions of the modules followed those of the core.

Sorry for the outburst

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