How to install Magento 2.4.6 in Ubuntu - Raju Sadadiya

What is Magento ?

Magento is opensource e-commerce platform, which provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system. Magento offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and catalog-management tools.

Basic system requirment of Magento 2.4.6

Composer 2.x (view more about install composer in ubuntu)
Elasticsearch 7.x or 8.x (view more about install elasticsearch in ubuntu)
MySQL 8.0 & MariaDB 10.x (view more about install mysql in ubuntu)
PHP 8.1 or PHP 8.2 (view more about install php in ubuntu)
Apache 2.4 or Nginx 1.18 (view more about install apache in ubuntu)
Minimum 2 GB RAM

Require these PHP extensions

ext-bcmath
ext-ctype
ext-curl
ext-dom
ext-gd
ext-hash
ext-iconv
ext-intl
ext-mbstring
ext-openssl
ext-pdo_mysql
ext-simplexml
ext-soap
ext-xsl
ext-zip
ext-sockets
ext-xml
ext-xmlreader
ext-xmlwriter
lib-libxml (DOMDocument)

Require Magento access keys

Magento access keys you can get from your account.

Magento Account > My profile > Marketplace >Access Keys

Download opensource Magento using composer

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition .

Download Magento commerce using composer

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-enterprise-edition .

Install any specific Magento version

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition:2.4.2

Give require permission to directory

We need to give correct permission to Magento directories by this below commands:

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;            
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;        
chmod -Rf 777 var
chmod -Rf 777 pub/static
chmod -Rf 777 pub/media
chmod 777 ./app/etc
chmod 644 ./app/etc/*.xml
chmod -Rf 775 bin

Create new database for Magento

We need to create empty database for new Magento setup.

mysql> CREATE DATABASE mag24;

Install Magento 2 using command

Before install we need to check elasticsearch is running and check MySQL server is running. Run the following lines in Command Line to install your Magento 2:

php bin/magento setup:install 
--base-url="http://local.magento24.com/" 
--db-host="localhost" 
--db-name="mag24" 
--db-user="root" 
--db-password="root" 
--admin-firstname="admin" 
--admin-lastname="admin" 
--admin-email="user@example.com" 
--admin-user="admin" 
--admin-password="admin123" 
--language="en_US" 
--currency="USD"
--timezone="America/Chicago" 
--use-rewrites="1" 
--backend-frontname="admin"

That’s all for installing Magento 2 in ubuntu.