I'm helping to maintain a website for a non profit - Drupal, obviously, Drupal 11.

They have two environments on a hosted site, staging and prod, but they don't have much process in place.

A general question is how to keep two environments in sync, and verify that they're in sync. A complicating issue is that staging at this point lags way behind prod, they've tended to just make changes directly on prod.

I've been trying to diff the database, but this is pretty unwieldy. A further issue is that, even when people make changes on staging first, they don't always do precisely the same thing on prod.

I'd like to lock down both envs so that all changes route through me. That might prove difficult politically though. But the initial idea is to bring staging up to date with prod and then verify that. I'm not clear on the best way to do that though.

Just trying to learn Drupal, I'm working on a mac. I created a simple drupal11 project using ddev, in a directory 'my-drupal11-site.

Then I created a new page and linked it, and created a new user. So fine.

I'm trying to understand where drupal puts things on the filesystem, but I don't see any changes there, in the directory 'my-drupal11-site'. Where did Drupal put the new user and it's password? I haven't yet installed a db.

I do see modules that I added, but otherwise the filesystem seems untouched.

I'm also using drush, the set of commands I used to make this project:

mkdir my-drupal11-site

cd my-drupal11-site

ddev config --project-type=drupal11 --docroot=web

ddev start

ddev composer create drupal/recommended-project

ddev composer require drush/drush

drush site:install --account-name=admin --account-pass=admin -y

ddev drush uli (optional)

ddev launch

tldr: Where does drupal11 write to on a mac?