Magento is an open source e-Commerce Merchant software that you can use to build an online showcase of your own, it was founded by eBay, and it is available as Enterprise and Community Edition.
2. INTRODUCTION
Magento is an open source e-Commerce Merchant software that you can use to build an
online show case of your own, it was founded by eBay, and it is available as Enterprise and
Community Edition.
3. Requirements:
Magento will require a Linux Distro with minimum 4 GB RAM, 500 GB Hard
Drive, 1 Eth0 and Internet Connection.
Database: Mysql 5.6
Web Server: Apache/Nginx
PHP: 5.6 or above
4. Install apache
apt-get install apache2
To start Apache web server, run the commands below
sudo service apache2 start
Next, open Apache default site configuration file in Ubuntu, then add the
directory block below if the block isn’t in there already.
5. If it’s there, then make sure it matches the block below highlighted in red:
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
6. Install mysql-server with mysql-client
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install mysql-client
While installing MySQL database, you’ll be prompted to create a root
password for the database.
Create it and remember it.
7. To start the database server, run the commands below
sudo service mysql start
After installing the database server, you should go and create a database and its
user for Magento. To do that, run the commands below to logon to the database
server.
mysql -u root -p
8. Then run the SQL statement below to create a database called magento
CREATE DATABASE magento;
Next create the database user called magentouser with password;
CREATE USER magentouser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password';
Finally, grant all privileges to magentouser for magento database.
GRANT ALL ON magento.* TO magentouser@localhost;
9. Change the line below:
memory_limit = 128M
Change to: memory_limit = 512M
and add : pdo_mysql.default_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
10. Save the file.
Downloading Magento files.
From : http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets
then extract the file and copy all the contents to : /var/www/html/
sudo cp -rf magento/* /var/www/html/ (example)
Then change the ownership of the folder to Apache.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
11. Change the permission of the files by running the commands below.
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/
Restart Apache and try connecting to the server.
sudo service apache2 restart
If everything was correctly followed, you should get the default Magento setup
page as shown below.
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15. Refer this link for more:
https://www.cybrosys.com/blog/how-to-install-configure-magento-on-
ubuntu
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