portmaster -ybdv www/apache24 lang/php72 lang/php72-extensions \r
www/mod_php72 databases/mariadb103-server databases/mariadb103-client

# might be necessary to first install the mariadb packages
# php_pdo and php_pdo_mysql necessary. works with the nd driver

#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch "\.php$">
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
    </FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.phps$">
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
</FilesMatch>

portmaster -ybdv devel/php-composer

portmaster -ybdv devel/git

This goes for drupal 8.7.x, by the looks of it the install instructions have changed yet again with Drupal 8.8.x. What a pity.

composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev site01 --no-interaction

vendor/drush/drush/drush state:set system.maintenance_mode 1   # go into maintenance mode
vendor/drush/drush/drush sql:dump | bzip2 > sqldump.bz2        # to be on the safe side, take db backup
vendor/drush/drush/drush cache:rebuild                         # rebuild the cache
composer update drupal/core --with-dependencies                # update everything that belongs to drupal
composer remove webflo/drupal-core-strict --no-update          # disable webflo, no longer necessary it seems
composer remove drupal/core --no-update                        # disable core, a different template in use now
composer require 'composer/installers:^1.7' --no-update
rm composer.lock                                               # remove previous install settings
rm -rf vendor                                                  # remove vendor software to avoid conflicts
echo 'memory_limit = 2G' > /usr/local/etc/php.ini              # Raise memory limit to 2G, composer requires that much
composer require drupal/core-recommended:^8.8 --update-with-dependencies # the new install template to use
vendor/drush/drush/drush updatedb                              # update database tables
vendor/drush/drush/drush cache:rebuild                         # cache rebuild
vendor/drush/drush/drush state:set system.maintenance_mode 0   # maintenance mode off
vendor/drush/drush/drush cache:rebuild                         # cache rebuild (again)

composer search google                                         # search the module
composer require drupal/google_analytics                       # install the module

<?php

// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
phpinfo();

?>

{
    "require": {
        "drush/drush": "^9.7",
        "symfony/polyfill-ctype": "1.11.0",
        "webmozart/assert": "1.4.0",
        "webmozart/path-util": "2.3.0",
        "webflo/drupal-finder": "1.1.0",
        "symfony/yaml": "3.4.28",
        "symfony/polyfill-php72": "1.11.0",
        "symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "1.11.0"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "package",
            "package": {
                "name": "symfony/polyfill-ctype",
                "version": "1.11.0",
                "dist": {
                    "url": "/tmp/composer-dist/polyfill-ctype-master.zip",
                    "type": "zip"
                }
            },
            "package": {
                "name": "webmozart/assert",
                "version": "1.4.0",
                "dist": {
                    "url": "/tmp/composer-dist/assert-master.zip",
                    "type": "zip"
                }
            },
        }
    ]
}

vendor/drush/drush/drush state:set system.maintenance_mode 1   # go into maintenance mode
vendor/drush/drush/drush sql:dump | bzip2 > sqldump.bz2        # to be on the safe side, take db backup

composer update                                                # the update command

vendor/drush/drush/drush updatedb                              # update database tables
vendor/drush/drush/drush state:set system.maintenance_mode 0   # maintenance mode off
vendor/drush/drush/drush cache:rebuild                         # cache rebuild (again)