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Magento 2 Beginners Guide
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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

by Gabriel Guarino
March 2017
Beginner
442 pages
6h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2. Installation

In this chapter, we will cover the tasks related to installing Magento 2 in a Linux server, including the following ones:

  • Setting up an AWS server
  • Installing PHP
  • Installing MySQL
  • Installing Magento dependencies
  • Creating a custom domain for the server
  • Setting up GIT for version control
  • Setting the right permissions for the server

System requirements for Magento 2

Before moving forward with the installation, we should review the system requirements for Magento 2 to ensure that the environment is correct for Magento to run properly.

The following are the system requirements for Magento 2:

  • Operating System:
    • Linux

  • Web servers:
    • Apache 2.2 or 2.4
    • nginx 1.8

  • Database:
    • MySQL 5.6 or
    • MySQL 5.7 (Magento 2.1.2 or above) or
    • MariaDB or
    • Percona

  • PHP:
    • PHP 5.6 ...
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