How to Install Magento 2 Using Composer

Welcome back to another SimiCart’s technical tutorial. Today, we will guide you how to install composer and how to install Magento 2 with composer.

Step 1: Install Composer

1. Run the following command to check if the composer has already been installed:

composer --help
composer list --help

2. If nothing displays or you face any errors, please install Composer:

Create an empty directory on your Magento server and run the following commands:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

3. Run the following command to make your composer globally available

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Step 2: Download Magento 2

Run the following command in the root directory.

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

Step 3: Set Up Permissions

You should set right permissions for the whole Magento 2 installation directory by running the below command:

find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \; && find . -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;

Step 4: Create The Database

Create an empty database to work with MySQL in case you have already have correct permissions:

echo "CREATE DATABASE magento2" | mysql -u[mysqluser] -p

Step 5: Install Magento 2

Run the following lines in Command Line to install your Magento 2:

php bin/magento setup:install 
--base-url="http://yoururl.com/" 
--db-host="localhost" 
--db-name="dbname" 
--db-user="dbuser" 
--db-password="dbpass" 
--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"

The above values are just examples, you definitely should change them according to your own info.

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