Setup Magento 2¶
This example will use git and composer to install Magento 2 from within the Devilbox PHP container.
After completing the below listed steps, you will have a working Magento 2 setup ready to be served via http and https.
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Table of Contents
Overview¶
The following configuration will be used:
| Project name | VirtualHost directory | Database | TLD_SUFFIX | Project URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| my-magento | /shared/httpd/my-magento | my_magento | loc | http://my-magento.loc https://my-magento.loc |
Note
- Inside the Devilbox PHP container, projects are always in
/shared/httpd/. - On your host operating system, projects are by default in
./data/www/inside the Devilbox git directory. This path can be changed via HOST_PATH_HTTPD_DATADIR.
Walk through¶
It will be ready in eight simple steps:
- Enter the PHP container
- Create a new VirtualHost directory
- Install Magento 2 via
gitandcomposer - Symlink webroot directory
- Add MySQL database
- Setup DNS record
- Visit http://my-magento.loc in your browser
1. Enter the PHP container¶
All work will be done inside the PHP container as it provides you with all required command line tools.
Navigate to the Devilbox git directory and execute shell.sh (or shell.bat on Windows) to
enter the running PHP container.
host> ./shell.sh
2. Create new vhost directory¶
The vhost directory defines the name under which your project will be available.
( <vhost dir>.TLD_SUFFIX will be the final URL ).
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd $ mkdir my-magento
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3. Install Magento 2¶
Navigate into your newly created vhost directory and install Magento 2 with git.
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd $ cd my-magento
# Download Magento 2 via git
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd/my-magento $ git clone https://github.com/magento/magento2
# Checkout the latest stable git tag
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd/my-magento $ cd magento2
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd/my-magento/magento2 $ git checkout 2.2.5
# Install dependencies with Composer
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd/my-magento/magento2 $ composer install
How does the directory structure look after installation:
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd/my-magento $ tree -L 1
.
└── magento2
1 directory, 0 files
4. Symlink webroot¶
Symlinking the actual webroot directory to htdocs is important. The web server expects every
project’s document root to be in <vhost dir>/htdocs/. This is the path where it will serve
the files. This is also the path where your frameworks entrypoint (usually index.php) should
be found.
Some frameworks however provide its actual content in nested directories of unknown levels. This would be impossible to figure out by the web server, so you manually have to symlink it back to its expected path.
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd/my-magento $ ln -s magento2/ htdocs
How does the directory structure look after symlinking:
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd/my-magento $ tree -L 1
.
├── magento2
└── htdocs -> magento2
2 directories, 0 files
As you can see from the above directory structure, htdocs is available in its expected
path and points to the frameworks entrypoint.
5. Add MySQL Database¶
devilbox@php-7.1.20 in /shared/httpd/my-magento $ mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -p -e 'CREATE DATABASE my_magento;'
7. DNS record¶
If you have Auto DNS configured already, you can skip this section, because DNS entries will be available automatically by the bundled DNS server.
If you don’t have Auto DNS configured, you will need to add the following line to your
host operating systems /etc/hosts file (or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc on Windows):
127.0.0.1 my-magento.loc
8. Open your browser¶
All set now, you can visit http://my-magento.loc or https://my-magento.loc in your browser and follow the installation steps.
Important
Use 127.0.0.1 for the MySQL database hostname.
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