Key points about bringing up a Drupal 8 beta 12 site on GoDaddy shared hosting. Note: Drupal launched beta 13 while we were brining this site up.

1. Drupal 8 Help
Short List of Help
http://www.slideshare.net/littleMAS/go-daddy-drupal-8-notes

2. Drupal 8 Critical Issues
https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status[0]=1&status[1]=13&status[2]=8&status[3]=14&status[4]=4&priorities[0]=400&categories[0]=1&categories[1]=2&categories[2]=5&version[0]=8.x

3. Requirements
• PHP 5.5.9 (w/JSON, XML, GD), curl
7.35, Twig (Symfony2)*
• MySQL 5.5.3 w/PDO
• Apache 2.x, Nginx 1.5.x
https://www.drupal.org/requirements/php#8
* http://twig.sensiolabs.org/documentation

4. Installation
• Drupal 8 includes Composer*
• Cheat Sheet at Nuvole —
http://nuvole.org/blog/2014/oct/01/dru
pal-7-drupal-8-cheat-sheet
• TBD —
https://www.drupal.org/documentation
/install
* http://crossfunctional.net/blog/2013/may/indefinitive-guide-composer-drupal-8

5. Installation Details
• Apache GD & A2EMOD for image
resizing and clear URLs
• settings.php plus services.yml
• Verify the directory tree, which is
different than D7, e.g., sudo mkdir
/var/www/yourdir/public_html/drupal/si
tes/default/files and sudo chgrp
www-data
var/www/yourdir/public_html/drupal/d
efault/files

6. Development
• Comprehensive Help —
https://drupalize.me/drupal-8
• Configuration Management —
http://drupal8cmi.org/
• Composer Dependency Manager
Module* —
https://www.drupal.org/node/2405811
* Greg Anderson on Composer — https://youtu.be/WNS3d_wzZ2Y

7. • Add Users and Assign Roles
• Add Icon and Logo Images
• Tweak Theme Look
• General Articles on Front Page with Comments from Logged on Users
• User Blog Page
• About Page with Map
Site Pages

8. –GoDaddy
“We are giving away the site.”