Magento 2 Beginner Class; Lesson #3: A Manual Installation of Magento Video Lecture | Magento: Build an E-Commerce Site (English)

if you're not using a host that provides
some sort of automatic Magento
installation for you that's fine we're
going to talk through the process here
and in the next video we'll troubleshoot
a few problems that may come up so first
of course you need to download Magento
to do that you go to Magento comm hover
over products in solutions and the open
source version of Magento is Magento
Community Edition so under products find
community edition and click on that then
you'll click download now and we have a
few options here as you'll see generally
you'll simply want the full release zip
with no sample data of course if you do
want sample data to play around with you
can go down here and get that version
for this tutorial we're going to go with
no sample data and you will want the
most recent version that's going to be
at the top here so then click select
your format and this is whether you're
downloading a zip file a Targa GZ file
or a tar dot bz2 file
many environments do work well with
tar.gz files which are smaller than zip
many work well with bz2 as well zip is
fairly universal so I'm just going to
use that one for this tutorial download
that and again if one of these doesn't
work in your situation then just
download the other one and try but zip
even though it's a little bit larger it
is the option that will work with just
about any host so you'll select that and
click download and then you'll be taken
to this screen if you don't already have
a Magento account you have to create one
in order to download Magento so if you
don't have one go ahead and click create
an account now and go through that
process if you have created an account
already just type in your email and
password so you can log in and then it
will allow you to download the zip file
now after you have downloaded Magento
you're going to need to upload it of
course and whether you're using
something like this or something like
cPanel or even FTP I highly recommend to
upload the tar or zip file that you
downloaded and extract it on your server
if that is at all possible rather than
extracting it on your own local computer
and then uploading all of the files
individually the reason I recommend this
is that Magento is a particularly large
platform compared to other popular
platforms such as WordPress and Drupal
WordPress fully extracted is about 25
megabytes Drupal 8 fully extracted is
about 90 megabytes Magento fully
extracted is three hundred and sixty
megabytes that takes a while to upload
especially because it's lots of
different files that have to be
individually uploaded it can take quite
a long time so if you're just uploading
the zip or tar file however that's much
faster so again if you can extract a
file in your hosting environment and you
can do this for instance if you're using
cPanel then do that upload the tar or
zip file and then extract it there and
the process will be much much faster
once you've uploaded Magento to the
proper place in your file manager which
is usually something called HTML it's
usually a directory called HTML or
public underscore HTML you'll need to go
to your file manager and you can do this
in your FTP client if you want or your
hosting control panel here you see my
site is in HTML so I'm going to go into
the HTML folder and here is the entirety
of my Magento site of course most of it
is found in these directories here and
you'll want to double check the
permissions on a few of these
directories before you start the actual
installation process first you want to
check the vendor directory and make sure
it has right permissions
for the user that's the W here and some
control panels will outright say write
read and execute which is what these are
W and X mean make sure you have right
selected here that looks good for us
then you'll want to check var and make
sure it also has write permissions for
the user which is this first W if you're
using the are W X dash dash X dash dash
X if you're using that since X if you're
looking at this this first W means the
user has write permissions so that's
good then you want to check go inside
the app folder and check the Etsy folder
we see that user does have write
permissions here that's good as well and
then the last one you want to confirm
has write permissions is inside pub the
static directory and we see that we have
write permissions set up here for us
already in this case as well so we're
all set notice there are a number of
other folders that do have write
permissions as well that's perfectly
fine we're not checking to make sure
only vendor and var and these other
folders have write permissions we just
specifically have to make sure that
these folders do indeed have write
permissions if others have them that
doesn't necessarily mean anything is
wrong at all
now the next step in this process before
you actually begin installing Magento is
to create a database now again depending
on how you're accessing your hosting
environment this process is going to be
very different if you're using the
command line you probably already know
how to create a database there if you're
using something like nexuses control
panel or a host that uses cpanel you
should have an option somewhere for me
it's under hosting features that says
MySQL or my sequel however you like to
pronounce it and then databases or you
might just have an app called MySQL
databases if you go there you should be
able to create a new database we see we
can do that here we type in our database
name
optionally create a user to go along
with it and click Add now you do always
have to have some sort of MySQL user
created and then they also have to have
permissions for that database in order
for your site to be able to access that
database because the site basically acts
as the user that you create here and
you're going to input that information
later during the installation process so
if you don't already have a MySQL user
setup as well or if you're not sure and
if you have the option it's good to go
ahead and create a user along with the
database sometimes these are two
separate steps you create a database and
then you go to something like MySQL
users and then create a new user and
then assign it to that database and make
sure it has permissions to basically do
everything and then once you have that
database created and once again you have
Magento uploaded to the proper directory
on your hosting platform and you've
checked your file permissions as we did
then you're ready to install your site
now the site installation process again
I'm not going to walk through it
explicitly for a few reasons but mostly
because it'll walk you through
everything on its own and there's no
reason for us to do that also there are
a few minor security concerns that come
along with creating a video like this
and putting in all of our database
access information even if we remove it
later so what you're going to do at this
point once you have your database
created and a user assigned to it and
your file is uploaded then you're going
to go to your domain / setup when you go
there Magento is going to first walk you
through a few steps to get everything
set up and to make sure that your
hosting environment all of your
permission settings are correct for a
Magento installation if it catches
anything that's going to cause it to not
quite work it will halt the installation
there so you don't end up with some sort
of buggy installation or a website
that's only half way going to work or
maybe looks like it's working but isn't
actually going to work at all
during this process you're going to have
to create a user account you're going to
have to provide it the database name
that you just created as well as the
password and username to log in to that
database or to access that database
rather and during this process it's
fairly common to encounter various
errors and problems if you do encounter
anything that stops the process for you
and you can't quite figure it out please
refer to our next video where I'm going
to walk you through a few of the more
common installation problems so again if
you come across these don't guess don't
get discouraged it's not uncommon and
I'm going to try to walk you through a
few of those to help expedite your
troubleshooting process now near the end
of your Magento installation process
it's going to provide you with an admin
URL and it's going to look something
like your domain slash admin underscore
and then six or seven random numbers and
letters make sure you keep track of this
path because this is where you're going
to log in to the backend of your new
Magento site if you don't have this URL
you won't be able to access the backend
of your site and basically you won't be
able to create your actual Magento site
if you do forget it though it's not the
end of the world there is a way to find
that if you forget your admin path go
back to your file system for your site
for me that's here under file manager
find your site installation then go to
app let's see
in this env dot PHP file if you access
that then right here near the top you'll
see this array that has an index called
front name this text here in this case
it's a little bit different from what I
told you it would be but in many cases
it is admin underscore and then some
random characters in our case it's OS
strain i underscore admin this is the
path to login to the admin section of
your site to log in to the backend so
you would go to your domain slash this
text right here
again that's if you forget it in the
first place but try to keep track of it
if you can once you've uploaded your
site you've extracted all the files and
check the permissions as we've done and
then create it a new database that has a
user attached to it you need to go to
your domain / setup to begin the
installation process or rather the pre
installation process if you navigate to
that URL you'll get a page that looks
like this you click agree and set up
Magento and then Magento is going to
walk you through this process that makes
sure everything is set up properly for
installation this is where if you're
going to run into any problems or
stumbling blocks or errors or whatever
this is where those are going to happen
the good thing is if they do happen they
happen before the actual installation
process and it forces you to work out
those problems before it installs so
that way you don't end up with some
messed up installation so we're going to
click start readiness check and this is
the first place where you might come
across some problems you might come
across a PHP version error a PHP
settings problem or an issue with the
PHP extensions that you have installed
on your server or rather extensions that
you don't have installed on your server
but that Magento does need we're going
to cover these in the next tutorials so
if you're having trouble here you can't
get past this check out the next video
in this tutorial we're going to address
some of these issues that hopefully will
help you out but after it's done with
all of these and the file permissions
check we're going to click Next now we
need to tell it where the database is
that we created and what it's called on
how to access it in 99% of cases the
database server host is at localhost in
other words it's on the actual server
that this is running from the database
server username is going to be the name
that you set up during the process of
you creating a database and assigning a
user to it just for slight security
reasons I'm not going to put my own
information on here but once again just
put in the username that you created
sometimes it starts with some sort of
account name that you have on cPanel and
then an underscore and then the actual
username that you created so pay
attention to that then you'll put in the
name that you called your database when
you created it and again sometimes these
do have the prefix of your account name
and an underscore followed by the actual
name you typed in so once again do pay a
close attention to that and you don't
have to worry about table prefix so go
ahead and enter all that information and
then click Next and it'll ask you for
your store address basically your domain
and then it's also going to give you a
Magento admin address you need to keep
track of this so write this down
somewhere this is the address that
you're going to need in order to access
the backend of your site and essentially
build your Magento site so once you have
that written down and you make sure you
have the right address here go click
Next and then you'll put in some basic
information for your store set your
default timezone for me Central Standard
Time Chicago is where I am US dollar is
the currency that I'm using default
store language will be English click
Next then you're going to create an
admin account now as a general security
rule it's best to not give your admin
account the name simply admin that just
makes it slightly easier for malicious
users to hack if they're trying to break
into your site admin is a very common
an account name as you can probably
imagine so if you use something
different that just helps you out a
little bit security wise it's kind of a
basic measure I'm just going to go with
store owner Rob you might want to use
something more professional in a lot of
cases then you'll enter your email
address the one that you want associated
with this account and of course a
password and click Next and then once
you're done the last step is to simply
click install it's checked everything
it's got everything set up it's verify
that it's able to install properly now
so just click install and then you're
just going to wait until it's finished
installing once it's finished installing
you'll see this screen again it gives
you your Magento admin address one last
time
copy this down somewhere if you haven't
already and then you can launch Magento
admin which takes you to the same admin
address here you're going to type in the
username and password you just created
and it'll take you to the backend of the
website once you're logged in Magento
will take you straight to your dashboard
this is where you start customizing and
creating your site if it looks like this
you're all set if it looks a little bit
off like if some of the images aren't
showing up right or if all of this text
is kind of pushed down the page that's a
problem that we're going to address in
the next video the troubleshooting video
so it's not a big deal it's something
that's usually easily fixable so don't
worry about that once you have gotten to
this screen there's just one last thing
we need to do you need to go back to
your file system go into your app
directory find your Etsy folder and now
we need to remove right permissions from
this folder so however your control
panel does that find out how you edit
permissions remove right permissions
from this Etsy directory and once you've
done that you're all set now your site
is installed and again if you've
encountered any problems at any point in
this process check out our next video in
which I'm going to address a few
problems that may come up