How to Install Magento 2

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If you are visiting this post that means you are on the stepping stone in E-commerce world! And, you have made the right choice to select Magento 2 as the platform. I’ll guide you through the installation process of Magento 2.

Quick Intro:

In this article, we are going to install Magento 2 step by step. We can say that Magento 2 is one of the leading platforms in building a perfect E-commerce store. Let’s Install Magento 2 Open Source edition. Magento 2 open source permits us to customize and develop our desired functionalities. 

Make sure you fulfill some basic Magento 2.x system requirements prior to installing Magento 2.

There are three ways to install Magento 2:

1. Install via composer
2. Install via GitHub

Let’s understand both methods.

1. Install Magento 2 via composer

A composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. To learn more about the composer, visit https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md

Similar to the above method, Magento core code is stored under /vendor directory and updating is possible through Magento admin.

Collect your authentication keys from here. Navigate to “My Access Keys”, enter a descriptive “Name” and generate a new set of keys.

Enter the following command in the terminal:

 composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project- 
 community-edition

Your public key is the username, and the private key is the password which is needed to be entered after which the Magento 2 is ready to install. Just go through the Setup Wizard and install it now.

That’s it for the installation of Magento 2 via composer without sample data.

Now I’ll show you how to install sample data. Navigate to Magento 2 root directory through the terminal, and run the following command:

 php bin/magento sampledata:deploy
 php bin/magento setup:upgrade

When you run the above two commands, composer.json file will be updated and the sample data will be installed. If you are asked to re-run the Magento compile command, enter the following:

 php bin/magento setup:di:compile

Sit back and wait for some time while the command is being executed.

2. Install Magento 2 via Github

Follow the below steps:

1. Clone Magento 2 repo from github.com/magento/magento2 or download a necessary release github.com/magento/magento2/releases.
2. Create a new empty directory.
3. Run the following command:
   

    git clone [email protected]:magento/magento2.git

4. Wait for the deployment to be finished.
5. Enter the following command:
   

    composer install

6. Install Magento 2Example of the command that installs Magento 2. Check the base-url, db-name, db-password, admin-email, and admin-password to match your local setup.
   

    php -f bin/magento setup:install –base-url=<server-url> --backend-frontname=<admin-url-key> --db-host=<db-host-name> --db-name=<db- name> --db-user=<db-user-name> --db-password=<db-password> --admin-firstname=<admin-firstname> --admin-lastname=<admin-lastname> --admin-email=<admin-mail-id> --admin-user=<admin-user> --admin-password=<admin-password> --language=<your-locale-language> --currency=<default-currency> --timezone=<timezone> –use-rewrites=1

7. Open your browser and visit your local link
8. Magento 2 is now installed!

To install Magento 2 via GitHub with sample data, follow the below steps:

1. Go to the web root which is not Magento 2.
2. Run the below command:
   

    git clone [email protected]:magento/magento2-sample-data.git

3. Navigate to cloned Magento 2 directory.
4. Run the below command:
   

    php -f dev/tools/build-sample-data.php -- --ce-source="your Magento CE install dir"

   Symlinks to your Magento 2 installation are created.
5. For Linux machines, you need to set ownership and permissions:
   

    chown -R :your web server group name
    find . -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} \;

6. Clear cache. Navigate to the Magento 2 var/ folder and run the below command:
   

    rm -rf cache/* page_cache/* generation/*

7. To install the sample data, run the below commands:
   

    php bin/magento setup:upgrade
    php bin/magento setup:di:compile

So that was all about Magento 2 installation  

Final Say:

Hence, by implementing the above steps you can install Magento in your system. If you have any questions or face any issues drop us a comment and we will get back to you with a solution soon. Or Hire a Magento Developer for developing your desired and customized E-commerce store.

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