How to download Magento First, let us look into what Magento is and what versions does it have. Magento is an open source ecommerce platform and CMS with advanced product, order and inventory management capabilities. Due to its architecture, Magento is very configurable and allows a retailer to customize this solution to suit their business needs and personal preferences. All these features make Magento an excellent solution for modern businesses who want a reliable and cutting-edge ecommerce solution.<\/p>\n Throughout its history, Magento has offered various versions of its product, oriented at different customers. The recent rebranding happened in 2017, and since that Magento offers two distinct versions – Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce.<\/p>\n Magento Open Source is a free version with a decent range of online retail functionalities, while Magento Commerce is a paid solution that offers more advanced capabilities to business owners. I will not dwell on peculiarities and advantages of each version – you can find it all in our article What is Magento?<\/a>, and this choice of the Magento version is up for you to make.<\/p>\n You can download Magento Open Source at the official Magento Tech Resources<\/a> page. Here, you can select the version of the platform and the format of the archive to download – .zip, .tar.gz or .tar.bz2. Moreover, there is the same Magento version with sample data available on this page, as well as Magento Open Source Patches for 2.x versions.<\/p>\n Downloading Magento Commerce is more complicated, since it is a paid version and naturally is not publicly available. To get Magento Commerce, go to http:\/\/magento.com\/<\/a> and log in to My Account (register, if you do not have one). At the menu bar on the left, find the Downloads section and select from Magento Enterprise Edition 2.X > Full Release or Magento Enterprise Edition 2.X > Full Release + Sample Data.<\/p>\n Now, as we have downloaded the Magento version of your choice, it is high time to begin the installation.<\/p>\n To install Magento, you should have a server that corresponds with the following official requirements.<\/p>\n If you are not able to detect what is your server missing, you can begin installing Magento – it will notify you of what is missing.<\/p>\n There is a number of virtual servers for Windows and Linux. I will go over the configuration for two of them for the first operational system – XAMPP and WampServer, and two – for the second. Moreover, I will go over another alternative – configuration via Docker.<\/p>\n Step #1<\/strong>: Download the distribution package at https:\/\/www.apachefriends.org\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n Important!<\/strong> The XAMPP version you download should contain the supported PHP version. I would strongly recommend downloading the archive here https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/xampp\/files\/XAMPP%20Windows\/<\/a>. Find PHP compatible with the Magento version you are installing (for example, Magento 2.3.1 is compatible with PHP 7.2.11).<\/p>\n Step #2<\/strong>: Install the server distribution package.<\/p>\n You can install several XAMPP servers to different folders with different PHP versions.<\/p>\n You will be offered a choice of components; tick the ones you want to be installed.<\/p>\n The combination Apache + MariaDB + PHP is the basic one and it is necessary to be installed. Let us explore other additional options offered to us:<\/p>\n Program Languages<\/strong><\/p>\n Server<\/strong><\/p>\n Step#4<\/strong>: Select the server in the following window.<\/p>\n If you start Apache сервер, you will get the following URL http:\/\/localhost\/. It is associated with xampp\/htdocs<\/strong> folder at your PC. In case you start MySQL server, you will get a connection to databases via http:\/\/localhost\/phpmyadmin\/.<\/p>\n In MySQL configuration you can set a password for a root user, who will have access for the database.<\/p>\n Step #5<\/strong>: Create a database for your Magento store in phpMyAdmin.<\/p>\n Step #6<\/strong>: Download Magento archive and unpack it to the xampp\/htdocs folder.<\/p>\n Step #7<\/strong>: Run the http:\/\/localhost\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n The latest Magento versions archives (Full Release) contain all the necessary libraries, so you can run the http:\/\/localhost\/<\/a> at once and Magento will notify you in case there are some issues.<\/p>\n In my case, I am missing three php modules.<\/p>\n To fix that, I will include the missing php modules to the configuration.<\/p>\n Delete this symbol “ ; ” in the lines of the modules you include.<\/p>\n As you fixed all your issues, restart the servers and complete Magento installation.<\/p>\n Step #1<\/strong>: Download the server distributive package from http:\/\/www.wampserver.com\/en\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Step #2<\/strong>: Perform the installation.<\/p>\n Remember the folder you performed the installation into.<\/p>\n Step #3<\/strong>: Specify the browser and text editor you want to use.<\/p>\n Step #4<\/strong>: Run the server.<\/p>\n Wamp supports several PHP versions, so you do not need any additional configurations.<\/p>\n Select the version compatible with your Magento.<\/p>\n Step #5<\/strong>: Set the password for root access to MySQL.<\/p>\n Step #6: Create a database for your store in phpMyAdmin http:\/\/localhost\/phpmyadmin\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Step #7<\/strong>: Stop the server and edit the Apache configuration.<\/p>\n One of the Apache modules used in Magento is by default disabled at this server. The log file that will notify you what module is absent, is situated at wamp64\/logs\/apache_error.log.<\/strong><\/p>\n Delete the commentary symbol “ # ” from the lines with our module “mod_version”.<\/p>\n Step #8<\/strong>: Set up the following parameters for php.ini<\/p>\n memory_limit = 1024M<\/strong> Step #9<\/strong>: Start the server<\/p>\n Step #10<\/strong>: Download the Magento archive and unpack it to wamp64\/www folder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The latest Magento versions archive contains all the necessary libraries; therefore, after the archive has been unpacked, run the http:\/\/localhost\/. Magento will notify you in case anything is missing.<\/p>\n In our case, everything is fine, and the server is ready for work.<\/p>\n Step #1<\/strong>: Install the Ubuntu Nginx using the console<\/p>\n sudo apt update<\/strong><\/p>\n NGINX<\/p>\n sudo apt install nginx<\/strong><\/p>\n PHP + modules<\/p>\n sudo apt install php7.2-fpm php7.2-cli php7.2-xml php7.2-gd php-imagick php7.2-recode php7.2-tidy php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-curl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-zip php7.2-soap php7.2-bcmath php7.2-intl php7.2-xsl php7.2-json php7.2-mcrypt php7.2-mysql<\/strong><\/p>\n MySQL<\/p>\n sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client<\/strong><\/p>\n Create basic settings:<\/p>\n sudo mysql_secure_installation<\/strong><\/p>\n Create new user:<\/p>\n CREATE USER ‘admin’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;<\/strong> Step #2<\/strong>: Configure the Ubuntu Nginx<\/p>\n sudo nano \/etc\/php\/7.2\/fpm\/php.ini<\/strong><\/p>\n Step #3<\/strong>: Find the “memory_limit” line and add more memory for php.<\/p>\n memory_limit = 1024M<\/strong> Step #4<\/strong>: Create the separate local domen “mymage.com” for magento project<\/p>\n sudo nano \/etc\/hosts<\/strong><\/p>\n This is how we specify that the domain connects to our local server.<\/p>\n Step #5<\/strong>: Create the folder for our website<\/p>\n sudo mkdir \/var\/www\/magento\/<\/strong><\/p>\n Step #6<\/strong>: Create a separate nginx file to configure this domain.<\/p>\n Configuration should contain the “root” parameters to connect our local domain to the Magento folder. However, Magento has a file with the main “nginx.conf.sample<\/strong>” folder that you need to connect.<\/p>\n This is where we expect the fastcgi_backend parameter, which the handler we installed will indicate. This is where the correct root parameter will be created.<\/p>\n We connect it in the end with the “include<\/strong>” command.<\/p>\n Step #7<\/strong>: Install the magento folder in the \/ var \/ www \/ magento \/ folder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Step #8<\/strong>: Run the following command to reload<\/p>\n sudo systemctl restart nginx.service<\/strong> Step #1<\/strong>: Install via console<\/p>\n Run the following commands:<\/p>\n sudo apt update<\/strong><\/p>\n APACHE<\/p>\n sudo apt install apache2<\/strong><\/p>\n PHP + modules<\/p>\n sudo apt install php7.2 libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-cli php7.2-xml php7.2-mysql php7.2-gd php-imagick php7.2-recode php7.2-tidy php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-curl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-zip php7.2-soap php7.2-bcmath php7.2-intl php7.2-xsl php7.2-json php7.2-mcrypt<\/strong><\/p>\n MySQL<\/p>\n sudo apt install -y mysql-server mysql-client<\/strong><\/p>\n Step #2<\/strong>: Configure Ubuntu Apache<\/p>\n sudo nano \/etc\/php\/7.2\/apache2\/php.ini<\/strong><\/p>\n Step #3<\/strong>: Find the “memory_limit<\/strong>” line and add more memory for php<\/p>\n memory_limit = 1024M<\/strong> Step #4<\/strong>: Create a separate local domain mymage.com for Magento project.<\/p>\n sudo nano \/etc\/hosts<\/strong><\/p>\n This is how we demonstrate that this domain will connect to our local server.<\/p>\n Step #5<\/strong>: Create a folder for our website Step #6<\/strong>: Create a separate file<\/p>\n sudo nano \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/mage.conf<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Step #7<\/strong>: Install Magento to the \/var\/www\/magento\/ folder. sudo systemctl restart apache2.service<\/strong><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nsudo nano \/etc\/nginx\/sites-available\/mymage.com\r\n\r\n\r\nupstream fastcgi_backend {\r\n server unix:\/var\/run\/php\/php7.2-fpm.sock;\r\n}\r\n\r\nserver {\r\n listen 80;\r\n listen [::]:80;\r\n\r\n server_name mymage.com;\r\n #root \/var\/www\/magento;\r\n\r\n access_log \/var\/www\/magento\/var\/log\/access.log;\r\n error_log \/var\/www\/magento\/var\/log\/error.log;\r\n\r\n set $MAGE_ROOT \/var\/www\/magento;\r\n set $MAGE_MODE developer;\r\n set $MAGE_DEBUG_SHOW_ARGS 1;\r\n\r\n include \/var\/www\/magento\/nginx.conf.sample;\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
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\nsudo mkdir \/var\/www\/magento\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<VirtualHost *:80>\r\n ServerAdmin admin@mymage.com\r\n DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/magento\/\r\n ServerName mymage.com \r\n ServerAlias www.mymage.com \r\n\r\n <Directory \/var\/www\/magento\/>\r\n Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews\r\n AllowOverride All\r\n Order allow,deny\r\n allow from all\r\n <\/Directory>\r\n\r\n ErrorLog \/var\/www\/magento\/var\/log\/error.log\r\n CustomLog \/var\/www\/magento\/var\/log\/access.log combined\r\n<\/VirtualHost>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
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