Drupal CMS

Drupal CMS is the Drupal Association's flagship product — Drupal core plus a curated set of contributed modules and recipes, packaged for people who want a capable site without assembling it piece by piece. It's the version of Drupal the project itself now leads with.

What ships on BOA

The CMS platform is rebuilt from the upstream Composer template as BOA releases ship, so it tracks the version the Drupal Association currently publishes — at the time of writing the 2.1 line on Drupal 11.4. The platform name in your Platform drop-down shows the exact version. The codebase is a standard Composer project with the web/ docroot, so anything you'd normally do to a Composer-managed Drupal applies.

Installing a site on it

Create a site the usual way and pick the Drupal CMS platform; the distribution's installer profile does the rest. One expectation to set: the interactive, browser-based setup wizard you may know from trying Drupal CMS elsewhere does not run here — the panel installs the complete package unattended, which means your new site's front page looks deliberately plain at first. That's a healthy install: log in and start configuring, and the full Drupal CMS toolset is already in place.

Good to know

• Drupal CMS moves quickly upstream — patch releases arrive steadily. Because the platform is rebuilt each BOA cycle, a newer build usually means a newer Drupal CMS; you move an existing site to it with the Migrate Site task whenever you're ready (see Cloning and migrating — one change at a time).
• A site you build here is a normal Drupal 11 site to every other part of BOA: same backups, same HTTPS, same caching, same drush from your shell.

Where to go next

• Choosing and managing platforms — getting CMS into your platform list.
• Creating and managing a site — the create-site form field by field.