First we will create a Drupal 9 project with the recommended template using the below command.
composer create-project drupal/recommended-project blt-drupal --no-install
This will create a project with the name blt-drupal, since Acquia BLT requires a document root to be docroot, so let's update the project's composer.json file accordingly.
The Drupal console makes Drupal developers' lives really easy.
Install the Drupal console on your system.
Download and move it to the local path with execute permission, then run the following commands:
curl https://drupalconsole.com/installer -L -o drupal.phar
mv drupal.phar /usr/local/bin/drupal
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/drupal
Run the following command to copy the config file into your home directory.
In this post, we will configure the aquia/BT Drupal 8 project on the nginx webserver and Ubuntu OS without using Drupal VM. I am assuming you have already installed the following: