Install Magento 2 using Composer on AWS Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04

Install Magento 2 using Composer on AWS Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04

September 20, 2019 / Nirav Shah

Step 1: Install Apache2 HTTP Server on Ubuntu

• Update your server

sudo apt update

• Install Apache2 service

sudo apt install apache2 -y

Step 2: Install MariaDB Database Server

• Install MariaDB server

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client



• Create secure login in the MariaDB

sudo mysql_secure_installation



• Login to your MariaDB server

sudo mysql -u root -p

Step 3: Install PHP 7.1 and Related Modules

• Install PHP7.1 in the Ubuntu server

sudo apt install php7.1 libapache2-mod-php7.1 php7.1-common php7.1-gmp php7.1-curl php7.1-soap php7.1-bcmath php7.1-intl php7.1-mbstring php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-mysql php7.1-gd php7.1-xml php7.1-cli php7.1-zip

Step 4: Restart Apache2

• Restart apache2 service

sudo systemctl restart apache2.service



• Create a phpinfo page

sudo vim /var/www/html/phpinfo.php



 <? phpinfo( ); ?> 

Step 5: Create Magento 2 Database

• Login to MariaDB

sudo mysql -u root -p



• Create a database

CREATE DATABASE magento2;



• Create a user

 CREATE USER 'magento2user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';



• Grant all the needed permission

GRANT ALL ON magento2.* TO 'magento2user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;



• FLUSH PRIVILEGES

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;



• Exit the MariaDB

exit

Step 6: Download Magento 2 Latest Release

• Install curl

sudo apt install curl git



• Get the composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin -- filename=composer



• Go to your html directory

cd /var/www/html



• Create the repository

sudo composer create-project --repository=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition magento2



• Copy Paste your credentials

Public key 
Private key

Step 7: Create the user

• Go to your magento2 directory

cd /var/www/html/magento2



• Create the user with the needed details

sudo bin/magento setup:install --base-url=http://example.com/ --db-host=localhost –db-	name=magento2 --db-user=magento2user --db-password=new_password_here –admin-	firstname=Admin --admin-lastname=User --admin-email=admin@example.com –admin- user=admin --admin-password=admin123 --language=en_US --currency=USD --	timezone=America/Chicago --use-rewrites=1



• Give the permission

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/magento2/



sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/magento2/



• Edit the 000-default.conf file

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf



DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento2/
<Directory /var/www/html/magento2/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>
    



• Rewite the module

sudo a2enmod rewrite



• Restart the apache2

systemctl restart apache2



• Allset hit the hostname or URL