This error occurs when installing a drupal 9 installation. Drupal requires you to provide a folder to put in your configuration yml files. Add the following to your settings.php file:

$settings["config_sync_directory"] = '../config';

This fixes the issue.

Make sure the folder exists!

Make sure to edit the .info file to make your module compatible with drupal 8 & 9.

An important clean-up task on bigger websites is to remove unused accounts. This snippet does the work.

I hosted a hobby site on an aws lightsail instance but it went down almost every day. It took me long to find the issue. Here's how I solved it.

I like drupal console a lot as a helper tool for development. In this snippet I wanted to get the route of a views page. The page is on /news-events.