Install Magento 2 using Composer on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 with Apache2, MariaDB and PHP 7.1 Support

September 20, 2019 / Eternal Team

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

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

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>