Yay! Drupal CMS installed! ... erm, how do I see it? :)

Created on 1 November 2025, 5 days ago

Problem/Motivation

Hi, everyone! :D Long time no see. I decided to give Drupal CMS a spin on my flight today, and, surprising absolutely no one who remembers me from the core committer days, ran into some issues (#WebchickTestCase :P).

If you install Drupal CMS via Composer (instructions which I found from https://new.drupal.org/download):

composer create-project drupal/cms

You get the following:

  Congratulations, you’ve installed Drupal CMS!             

Next steps:
  * Read the user guide: https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/index.html
  * Get support: https://drupal.org/support
  * Get involved with the Drupal community: https://drupal.org/getting-involved
  * Homepage: https://www.drupal.org/project/cms
  * Support:
    * docs: https://new.drupal.org/docs/drupal-cms
    * chat: https://drupal.org/node/314178

What I expected to see here was "Go to http://localhost:8080/drupalcms/ to get started!" or... something.

The Drupal CMS project page → refers out to DDEV however...

% ddev launch 
zsh: command not found: ddev

...can't use that!

(I'm guessing this is because Drupal CMS doesn't pull DDEV in as a dependency because it's trying to be more vendor-neutral on where you go about hosting it. Fair enough.)

I seem to remember back in the day we had something like a drupal quick-start command that provided a local web host via the one built-in to PHP + sqlite as a DB backend, and this is what I expected to happen as a fallback.

The Installation Docs seem to jump straight from installing locally (which covers DDEV, not "native" composer) to set up which shows screenshots of the setup page, but unfortunately omits the key detail of at what URL do I find the setup page?

Steps to reproduce

composer create-project drupal/cms

...on a machine without DDEV installed.

Proposed resolution

Expand the "Next steps" portion of the CLI output to include a hyperlink to the newly installed Drupal CMS site.

User interface changes

N/A

Configuration changes

N/A

✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Component

Documentation

Created by

🇨🇦Canada webchick Vancouver 🇨🇦

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