There is lots of merchants website uses  trustable eCommerce software  Magento . It is an Open source software application which is owned by eBay. It works  on open source  LAMP stack . Magneto used high resources on server , for basic server , php needs minimum 512MB of RAM to run php application. This guide will help you to  set up magneto software for web platform on Linux based flavor systems.

ECommerce Magento 2 Prerequisites

Web servers :  Apache 2.2 >=  ( mod_rewrite ) module

Nginx   1.8 >= 

DataBase : MySQL 5.6 / Oracle / Percona

PHP : Supports PHP 5.6.5 or Greater than this version

PHP 7.0.2 ( Magento version 2.0.1 and later version supported )

PHP Extension : bc-math ,ImageMagick 6.3.7>=curl,gd,intl,mbstring,mcrypt,,PDO/MySQL,SimpleXML,soap,xml,xsl,zip,mhash,openssl[/box]

 

Download Magento Community Edition

Magneto is available on two  type of  edition  one is community and other type is Enterprise  . Here in this tutorial guide, we are going to setup Magento 2.0.2 , this version 2.0.2 is relased after fixed  issues that some users  having problem in upgrading from 2.0.0 ==> to version 2.0.1 ..

Download Magento2  from this official magent website [button link=”https://www.magentocommerce.com/download” type=”icon” newwindow=”yes”] Link text[/button]  

The Magento download is available in two form one is with sample data , which is having some size  and one community addition is without sample data. You can choose according to your need. You can see in below images also.

magento_download

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Configure Magento Code 

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I have download  and unpacked the compressed archived file in opt directory through below command.

# mkdir /opt/magentocode
#  cd  /opt/magentocode
# tar xjf Magento-CE-2.0.2-2016-01-28-02-26-45.tar.bz2

After unpacked the bzip2 compress in magentocode directory , files will be extracted in the same path, Now you can remove compress archieved file from this location.

# cd  /opt  
(Go into opt directory and rename and move magentocode directory to the web server document root. In Below command i have rename the directory magentocode into ecommerce and move it to default apache server document root and in apache server configuration path, set it of document root.
# mv magentocode  ecommerce
# mv  ecommerce /var/www/html

Now set the web server user permission, give correct permission.

 # chmod –R 755 /var/www/ecommerce

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Create Database and User 

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# mysql -u root -p

Enter password:

MariaDB[(none)]>CREATE DATABASE magentodb;

MariaDB[(none)]>GRANT ALL ON magentodb.* to 'magentouser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '[ENTER_PASSWORD]';

MariaDB[(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

MariaDB[(none)]> quit

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Run the Magento Website hosting url

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Now run the Magento  Website hosting url  in browser then web installer will be do some steps and install magento newer version . you can run your web installer through below url.

http://ecommerce.example.com

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