Installing Magento 2
Throughout the following recipes, we will install Magento 2 on a preconfigured SaaS platform hosted by DigitalOcean. Installing Magento 2 differs a lot from the current Magento 1 version. An important change is the use of Composer. We will use Composer to install all the third-party modules and manage the core of Magento 2. This recipe will show you how to do it.
Tip
Composer is a dependency management tool for PHP. It allows you to declare the software libraries for your project. It will help you install or update them.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you will need a preinstalled Apache or NGINX, PHP or HHVM and MySQL setup. No other prerequisites are required.
How to do it...
For the purpose of this recipe, let's assume that we ...
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