HOW TO INSTALL MAGENTO ON CentOS 7

INTRODECTION

Magento is the most popular open-source e-commerce store application. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL/MariaDB database server. It is fully customizable which gives you the ability to customize the look, functionality and content of the store. It also comes with thousands of easy to install plugins and layouts. It is very secure and fully SEO ready. In this tutorial, we will install Magento 2.3 using Apache web server, PHP 7.2 and MariaDB 10.3.

Step 1: Installing Apache Web Server

Installing Apache web server is so simple, from the official repositories:

# yum install httpd

Step 2: Install PHP Support for Apache

To install PHP 7, you need to add the EPEL and IUS (Inline with Upstream Stable) repository in order to install PHP 7 using yum:

# yum install -y http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/7/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-14.ius.centos7.noarch.rpm

# yum -y update

# yum -y install php70u php70u-pdo php70u-mysqlnd php70u-opcache php70u-xml php70u-mcrypt php70u-gd php70u-devel php70u-mysql php70u-intl php70u-mbstring php70u-bcmath php70u-json php70u-iconv

Next, open and modify the following settings in your /etc/php.ini file:

max_input_time = 30

memory_limit= 512M

error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR

error_log = /var/log/php/error.log

date.timezone = Asia/Calcutta

Next, to retrieve complete info concerning the PHP installation and all its current configurations from a web browser, let’s create a info.php file in the Apache DocumentRoot (/var/www/html) using the following command.

# echo “<?php phpinfo(); ?>” > /var/www/html/info.php

Once all the required configuration completes, it’s time to start the Apache service and enable it to start automatically from the next system boot as well like so:

# systemctl start httpd

# systemctl enable httpd

Next, we can verify that Apache and PHP are working fine; open a remote browser and type your server IP Address using HTTP protocol in the URL and the default Apache2 and PHP info page should appear.

http://server_domain_name_or_IP/

http://server_domain_name_or_IP/info.php

Step 3: Install and Configure MariaDB Database

To install MariaDB database, we need to add the following official MariaDB repository to file /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo as shown.

_[mariadb]
_{name = MariaDB}
_{baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.1/centos7-amd64}
_{gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB}
_gpgcheck=1

Once the repo file in created, we are now able to install MariaDB as follows:

# yum install mariadb-server mariadb

# yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client

After the installation of MariaDB packages completes, start the database daemon for the meantime and enable it to start automatically at the next boot.

# systemctl start mariadb

# systemctl enable mariadb

Next create a magento database and user as shown.

# mysql -u root -p

mysql> CREATE USER magento@localhost IDENTIFIED BY “your_password_here”;

mysql> create database magento;

mysql> GRANT ALL ON magento.* TO magento@localhost;

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

mysql> exit

Step 4: Install Magento Community Edition

Now, go to the Magento official website, and create a user account in case you are a new customer.(or simply login if you already have an account) and download the latest version of Magento Community Edition.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/download