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  1. Review the documentation on Git, Composer, and Terminus, and install and configure them on your local computer. Pantheon requires Composer 2, at minimum.

    • Mac users can use Homebrew to install Git, Composer, and PHP, along with their required dependencies. Note: Terminus 3 should be used for PHP >= 8.0. Restart the shell or terminal environment after entering the following command:

      brew install git composer php

    • Windows users can install Composer and Git, and may need to install XAMPP or similar to satisfy some dependencies.

  2. Set the temporary variable $SITE in your terminal session to match the name of your site.

    This doc uses several commands that use the temporary command line alias, $SITE, to make entering command examples easier. Refer to the steps further in this doc to see which sites should be aliased (it may be more than one), then replace anita-drupal in this example:

    export SITE=anita-drupal && echo "New alias set as $SITE"
    How to Use Terminus to Find the Site Name

    Use terminus site:list for a list of sites you have access to:

    terminus site:list
--------------------------- --------------------- ------------- ----------------------------------- -------------------- --------------------- ------------- ------------
Name                        ID                    Plan          Framework          Region           Owner                Created               Memberships   Is Frozen?
--------------------------- --------------------- ------------- ------------------- ---------------- -------------------- --------------------- ------------- ------------
anita-drupal                abdc80ce-286c-1234-   Sandbox       drupal8             Canada           3374708c-987e-1234   2020-12-15 19:40:42   d3ecc20c-395a falseanita-wordpres              abdc9954-fab2-1234-   Sandbox       wordpress           United States    c96ddb25-336a-1234   2020-09-02 07:18:51   d3ecc20c-395a false

    The site name is listed under Name. In this example, the site name is anita-drupal.