Installing Drush and Drupal 8 on Laragon

Krilo_89

Hi All,

I installed Drupal 8 on Laragon and everything is working just fine, except I can't get Drush to work.
I installed Drush through composer (globally and inside my Drupal project folder) and when I want to run a command in the Laragon terminal, my computer (windows 10), wants to run a program: drush.launcher. I need to select a program to open the drush.launcher file with.
Just like the problem described here: https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/issues/1696

Do I need to select cmd.exe for opening the drush.launcher file?

I hope someone else already got Drush working.

ps. I placed this in the wrong category and I don't see the option to change it.

heyyoyo

I'm using Drush under Windows 7 and Windows 10.
I dont' remember that I had to do anything special.

I just installed it via composer command:

composer global require drush/drush:8.1.0

And added in my environment variables this path

C:\Users\MYWINDOWSUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\drush\drush

PS: If you check inside this directory you should see a script drush.bat.

And then I could use regular drush commands.

heyyoyo

I was getting recently errors with drush 8.x.x on some drush commands, like drush up:

 "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

I was able to fix it by adding an alias in cmder by executing this command in the console

 alias drush=php C:\Users\Lionel_E\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\drush\drush\drush.php $*

Hope it helps anyone using drupal and drush.