documentation/creating-new-drutopia-site.md

# Deploying Drutopia Sites

Agaric manages a large number of Drupal, primarily [Drutopia](https://drutopia.org/) sites, on a 

Please see [the Drutopia Platform README for an overview of hosting and deploying Drutopia sites](https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/drutopia_host#introduction )
If you won't be deploying, skip overall setup.


## Overall setup

Strongly recommended to set up locally like this:

```
mkdir -p ~/Projects/drutopia-platform
cd ~/Projects/drutopia-platform
git clone git@gitlab.com:drutopia-platform/build_source.git
git clone git@gitlab.com:drutopia-platform/drutopia_host.git
cd drutopia_host
git clone git@gitlab.com:drutopia-platform/build_artifacts.git
git clone git@gitlab.com:drutopia-platform/hosting_private.git
```

```note
These last two repositories are private to Agaric and others maintaining the Drutopia platform, so if you're following along at home you'll have to create your own analogs, per [the documentation](https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/drutopia_host#introduction).
```

Commands for copying throughout will assume this above setup.

## Create a new site project

Ordinarily this will live under https://gitlab.com/agaric/sites (for Agaric clients) or https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/sites (for direct Drutopia platform members).

Copy the https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/build_source