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How to Create a Magento 2 website with sample data

To install Magento 2, we need the newest tools to run that application. Make sure your web-server has the following stuff installed:

• ·        PHP 5.5 or higher

• ·        MySQL 5.6 or higher

• ·        Apache 2.2 or higher

• ·        Command line access

• ·        Composer

We can install Magento 2 in different ways. we will install Magento 2 using

Composer. The advantage of this is that we can use GIT to add version control to our custom development.

1.We will install Magento 2 with Composer. For this, we need authentication keys.With an account on the magento.com site, go to Developers | Secure keys in the My Account section. On this page, you can generate public and private keys that will be your username and password in the next step.

2. To install Magento 2 with composer, we have to run the following command:

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

magento/project-community-edition <installation_dir>.

3. You will be prompted for a username and password. The username is the public key and the password is the private key that we generated in the previous step. When the command has run, the installation directory will have the following structure:

app

bin

CHANGELOG.md

composer.json

composer.lock

CONTRIBUTING.md

CONTRIBUTOR_LICENSE_AGREEMENT.html

COPYING.txt

dev

.gitignore

Gruntfile.js

.htaccess

.htaccess.sample

index.php

lib

LICENSE_AFL.txt

LICENSE.txt

nginx.conf.sample

package.json

.php_cs

php.ini.sample

pub

README.md

setup

.travis.yml

update

var

vendor

Tip:-

Check that the user and group of these files are the same as your Apache user. One recommendation is to execute all the commands as your Apache user.

4. We have installed the codebase with composer. Now we can run the installation

wizard. Open your browser and enter the URL of your site. You should see the

following welcome screen:

5. Hit the Agree and Setup Magento button and start the environment check.

6. Click on Next and enter your database information as follows:

Database Server Host: The hostname or IP address of the database server

Database Server Username: The username of the database account

Database Server Password: The password for the account

Database Name: The name of the database

Table Prefix: Optionally, you can give a prefix for each table

7. Go to the next step and check if the right information is filled for the URL part. In the advanced section, you can optionally configure HTTPS, apache rewrites, and your encryption key. For our test environment, we can leave these settings as they are configured.

Note:-

Make sure that the mod_rewrite option is enabled for the apache server. When not
enabled, the URL rewrites will not work correctly.

8. In the next step, you can configure your time zone, currency, and default language.

9. In the last step, you can configure your administration account. After clicking on the Next button, you are ready to install. Click on the Install Now button and the

installer will start. This will take some time because the installer will add the sample data during the installation. You can open the Console Log to see what is currently happening.

10. When the installer is ready, you will see the following success message:

11. Run the following commands in your Magento installation directory to configure the sample data:

php bin/magento sampledata:deploy

composer update

php bin/magento setup:upgrade

12. The preceding commands will download and install the sample data packages.Because they contain a lot of images, this could take some time. The setup:upgrade command will install the sample data, and this also takes some time.

13. The installation of the webshop is now complete. You now have an up-and-running Magento 2 webshop. When you navigate to the category Gear | Bags, you should see something like in the following screenshot: