How to "detect" a site’s URI based on the current working directory?

[torotil]

Hi I’d really like to make drush detect the correct uri based on the current working directory (without extra arguments to drush).

Currently I’m using #2580 with a site-specific drushrc.php to achieve this. The maintainers of drush seem not in favor of that solution though (see #1965 and #2055).

As I’m not willing to maintain a drush fork ;) I’m looking for another way to achieve this. Any suggestions?

[weitzman]

Are you asking about drush9 or drush8? please describe your setup a bit more.

[torotil]

This is about a Drupal7 multi-site setup. I’m happy to use whatever drush version works. Up to now I have used a patched version of drush8.

A basic test-setup would look like this:

• One Drupal7 root in /drupal-root
• Two sites (configured via sites.php):
  • default.example.com pointing to sites/default
  • a.example.com pointing to sites/a

What I want to achieve is that the correct -l argument is automatically set based on the current shell working directory. In an imaginary shell session this would look like:

$ cd /drupal-root
$ drush status | grep URI
Site URI: https://default.example.com
$ cd sites/a
$ drush status | grep URI
Site URI: https://a.example.com

With the patch in #2580 I can do that when each sites folder contains a drushrc.php with a line like $options['l'] = 'https://default.example.com';

[weitzman]

Thanks for elaborating ... I dont have a suggestion offhand.

[weitzman]

My understanding is that your drushrc.php approach should work with drush8. But we have certainly received reports of it not working - #2285. If that issue matches this one, please close this as a dupe.

No solution exists yet for drush9

[torotil]

@weitzman As far as I understood #2285 is something completely different. I only have one global drush installation but I want it to detect and use the correct site/*/drushrc.php early enough to be able to configure the site url there as described in the imaginary shell session above. [… or any other means to achieve the same goal.]

[torotil]

Ok never mind. It seems that it does indeed work with 8.1.9.

[torotil]

Ok it seems I was wrong after all. It seems the installation I tested already had the patch from #2580. At least it does not work out-of-the-box with drush 8.1.18.

I found a fix that can be included in $HOME/.drush/drushrc.php though:

$site_path = drush_site_path();
if (file_exists("$site_path/drushrc.php")) {
  include "$site_path/drushrc.php";
}

With these lines the above shell session works. Without it I get a simple http://a as URI.

[weitzman]

Drush9 equivalent #3968