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I use Ubuntu 18.04 with Bash and Apache 2.4 and I desire to automate the entire process of creating a Drupal 8 with local Drush 9 project, at least after creating a database for it (which I usually create with PHPMyAdmin):

1. Add data like domain.tld, db name, db user name, db password and locality (localhost).


2. Create an Apache Virtual Host for the Drupal project based on the domain.


3. Download and create a Drupal directory for the project under /var/www/html/.


4. Change the directory's name to that of the domain and also create a proper settings.php with the relevant details.


5. Restart the server.

I don't think the following Composer command is enough for that:

composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project

Is there a communally-supported way to achieve my aim?

Have you already had a look at the ScriptHandler.php of drupal-composer/drupal-project?

It provides certain functions that are run via composer.json as post-install-cmd and post-update-cmd. You could extend the ScriptHandler.php to provide a post-create-project-cmd which runs your Drush stuff. Maybe with the help of Symfony's Console Component.

I know it's not a perfect fit to your question, but one option is to start with geerlingguys Drupal Vagrant Box:

https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm

With this, you can set a custom config.yml to override the default.config.yml which will allow you to set variables/info such as DB name, DB pass, MySQL user, Site name, etc... It gets you pretty close to an all in one "up" kind of thing.

You can tell vagrant to install a DB or not. Install Drupal or not. You can have it use an existing DB on "up" command too.

Some example config.yml overrides (not tested):

---

vagrant_hostname: site_name.local
vagrant_machine_name: site_name_vm
drupal_site_name: "site_name"
drupal_account_pass: pass
drupal_db_name: site_name
php_version: "7.1"

vagrant_ip: 192.168.25.25
vagrant_memory: 4096

extra_packages:
 - sqlite
 - php-bcmath # This is needed for Commerce.

php_memory_limit: "256M"
php_display_errors: "On"
mysql_root_password: pass
drupal_account_name: admin
drupal_db_user: root
drupal_db_password: pass

Then it's just a matter of running vagrant up in your command line and it's possible to have vagrant install Drupal with DB and all creds/info.

You can take a look at the default.config.yml to see what's available and what you may want to override/set.

Consider using dbjpanda's drupal-on-docker; simple installation with everything automated. You just have to install docker and then:

1. Clone the repository.


2. Update the .env file with all of your information like domain name, db password, etc.

and you're good to go.