Install Magento 2 using Composer on AWS Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04

September 20, 2019 / Nirav Shah

<strong>Step 1: Install Apache2 HTTP Server on Ubuntu</strong>

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<li>Update your server</li>
<pre>sudo apt update</pre>
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<li>Install Apache2 service </li>
<pre>sudo apt install apache2 -y</pre>
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<strong>Step 2: Install MariaDB Database Server</strong>

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<li>Install MariaDB server</li>
<pre>sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client</pre>
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<li>Create secure login in the MariaDB </li>
<pre>sudo mysql_secure_installation</pre>
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<li>Login to your MariaDB server </li>
<pre>sudo mysql -u root -p</pre>
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<strong>Step 3: Install PHP 7.1 and Related Modules</strong>

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<li>Install PHP7.1 in the Ubuntu server </li>
<pre>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</pre>
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<strong>Step 4: Restart Apache2</strong>

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<li>Restart apache2 service </li>
<pre>sudo systemctl restart apache2.service</pre>
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<li>Create a phpinfo page</li>
<pre>sudo vim /var/www/html/phpinfo.php</pre>
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<pre> &#60;? phpinfo( ); ?&#62; </pre>
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<strong>Step 5: Create Magento 2 Database</strong>

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<li>Login to MariaDB </li>
<pre>sudo mysql -u root -p</pre>
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<li>Create a database </li>
<pre>CREATE DATABASE magento2;</pre>
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<li>Create a user </li>
<pre> CREATE USER ‘magento2user’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘new_password_here’;</pre>
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<li>Grant all the needed permission </li>
<pre>GRANT ALL ON magento2.* TO ‘magento2user’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘user_password_here’ WITH GRANT OPTION;</pre>
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<li>FLUSH PRIVILEGES </li>
<pre>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;</pre>
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<li>Exit the MariaDB </li>
<pre>exit</pre>
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<strong>Step 6: Download Magento 2 Latest Release</strong>

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<li>Install curl </li>
<pre>sudo apt install curl git</pre>
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<li>Get the composer </li>
<pre>curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php — –install-dir=/usr/local/bin — filename=composer</pre>
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<li>Go to your html directory </li>
<pre>cd /var/www/html</pre>
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<li>Create the repository</li>
<pre>sudo composer create-project –repository=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition magento2</pre>
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<li>Copy Paste your credentials </li>
<pre>Public key </br>Private key</pre>
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<strong>Step 7: Create the user </strong>

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<li>Go to your magento2 directory</li>
<pre>cd /var/www/html/magento2</pre>
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<li>Create the user with the needed details </li>
<pre>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</pre>
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<li>Give the permission </li>
<pre>sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/magento2/</pre>
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<pre>sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/magento2/</pre>
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<li>Edit the 000-default.conf file</li>
<pre>sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf</pre>
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<pre>DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento2/
&lt;Directory /var/www/html/magento2/&gt;
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
&lt;/Directory&gt;
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<li>Rewite the module </li>
<pre>sudo a2enmod rewrite</pre>
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<li>Restart the apache2</li>
<pre>systemctl restart apache2</pre>
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<li>Allset hit the hostname or URL</li>
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