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How to Install Magento 2.4 with LEMP

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October 7, 2020 by Je Wilson

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In this guide, we will show you how to install Magento 2.4 with LEMP stack on an
Ubuntu 20.04 VPS.

Magento is one of the most popular open-source eCommerce

platforms available, thanks to its customization and exibility. It is
created using the Zend Framework and uses MySQL as its database
management system. Magento provides online merchants with a very
exible shopping cart and it comes with a rich set of features, making
it an excellent choice for businesses looking to have an online stop set
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Table of Contents 
Prerequisites Managed NVMe VPSes
Getting Started
Install LEMP and Elasticsearch Managed NVMe Dedicated
Create a Database for Magento 2 Servers
Install Magento 2
Create an Nginx Con guration File
Install an SSL Certi cate
Install Cron Job
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Prerequisites
An Ubuntu 20.04 VPS with root access enabled, or a user with sudo privileges
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Nginx
MariaDB 10.4
Elasticsearch 7.6.x because Magento 2.4 is tested with this version
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openssl, pdo_mysql, simplexml, soap, xsl and zip extensions enabled. Also, for
performance reasons it is a good idea to install and enable the opcache
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A valid domain name for accessing the Magento 2 website. Also, a valid SSL Horizontal Scaling for
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Replace “root” with a user that has sudo privileges if necessary. Additionally, replace
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Once all of the OS packages are up-to-date, restart your server if required to apply
any new con guration changes.

Install LEMP and Elasticsearch

LEMP is an acronym that describes a Linux OS with Nginx, MySQL (or MariaDB), and
PHP. It’s a general stack of applications and servers that can provide the foundation
for many software packages. Let’s install LEMP on our Ubuntu 20.04 VPS.

Install Nginx

If there is an Apache web server installed on the server already, stop the Apache
service and disable it from starting on server boot:

systemctl stop apache2

systemctl disable apache2

Install Nginx with the following command:

apt-get install nginx

That’s all we need to do with Nginx for now.

Install MySQL

Next, we will install the MySQL database server, which will be used for storing the
data of our Magento website, such as the products, categories, customers, and
orders.
For the purposes of this tutorial, we will install and use MariaDB. To install the
MariaDB database server, enter the following commands:

apt-get install software-properties-common

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We need to add a key in order to add our MariaDB repository.

apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80

0xF1656F24C74CD1D8

Now that we have the key, let’s install the repository:

add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64,arm64,ppc64el]

http://mirror.lstn.net/mariadb/repo/10.4/ubuntu bionic main'

Update your APT repositories so that the package lists get read.

apt update

Finally, we can install MariaDB.

apt install mariadb-server

Once MariaDB installed, enable the MariaDB service to start on server boot:

systemctl enable mariadb.service

Check the status of the MariaDB service:

systemctl status mariadb.service

It should be running. That’s all we need to do with MariaDB for now.

Install Elasticsearch

Switch to a directory where you can download a le temporarily.

cd /opt

Let’s download the Elasticsearch package le.

wget
https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-
7.6.1-amd64.deb

Install it by running this next command:

dpkg -i elasticsearch-7.6.1-amd64.deb

Start the Elasticsearch service:

systemctl start elasticsearch

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Check the status:

systemctl status elasticsearch

Check the version and other information about Elasticsearch:

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200'

If it all looks normal up to this point, we can now install PHP.

Install PHP 7.4

Add the PPA for PHP 7.4:

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Next, update the OS package list and install PHP 7.4 with the following command:

apt-get update
apt-get install php7.4

Install all of the required PHP extensions with the following command:

apt install php7.4-fpm php7.4-common php7.4-mysql php7.4-gmp

php7.4-curl php7.4-intl php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-gd
php7.4-xml php7.4-cli php7.4-zip php7.4-bcmath

Once the PHP extensions have been installed on the server, install a few other OS
packages that are required for the Magento 2 installation:

apt-get install git curl software-properties-common

Next, open the main PHP con guration le /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini:

nano /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini

Change the following settings:

file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
short_open_tag = On
memory_limit = 256M
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0
zlib.output_compression = On
upload_max_filesize = 128M
max_execution_time = 600
max_input_time = 900
date.timezone = America/Chicago

Save and close the PHP con guration le.

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Create a Database for Magento 2

Secure your MariaDB installation by using the mysql_secure_installation script. This
script will remove anonymous users, disallow root login remotely, and remove the
test database.

mysql_secure_installation

We recommend that you answer all of the questions as shown below:

Enter current password for root (enter for none): Press [Enter]
since no password is set by default
Set root password? [Y/n]: N (You can set a password if you like)
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y

Next, we will create our MySQL user and database for our Magento 2 website. Log in
to your MySQL server with the following command and enter your MySQL root
password when prompted:

mysql -u root -p

To create a new database for our Magento 2 instance, run the following commands:

mysql> set global log_bin_trust_function_creators=1;

mysql> CREATE USER 'magento'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH
mysql_native_password BY 'strongPassword';
mysql> create database magentodb;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON magentodb.* TO
'magento'@'localhost';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit

Make sure that you give your magento MariaDB user a real and strong password.

Install Magento 2
We can now proceed with the Magento 2 installation. At the time of writing this
article, the latest stable version of Magento is version 2.4.

First, go to the GitHub repository and download the latest version of Magento with
the following command:

mkdir -p /var/www/magento2/
cd /var/www/magento2/
git clone https://github.com/magento/magento2.git
/var/www/magento2/

Next, we will need to install Composer to install all necessary Magento components.
You can install Composer by just running the following command:

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curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-

dir=/usr/bin --filename=composer

Run these next commands to con gure composer.

cd /var/www/magento2
composer install
bin/magento setup:install --base-url=http://yourdomain.com/ --db-
host=localhost --db-name=magentodb --db-user=magento --db-
password=strongPassword --admin-firstname=FirstName --admin-
lastname=LastName --admin-email=your@emailaddress.com --admin-
user=magentoadmin --admin-password=strong-password --language=en_US
--currency=USD --timezone=America/Chicago --use-rewrites=1

Do not forget to replace the domain name, database password, admin

username, password and admin email address accordingly.
Once the installation is complete, you should receive the following output:

[Progress: 699 / 701]

Post installation file permissions check...
For security, remove write permissions from these directories:
'/var/www/magento2/app/etc'
[Progress: 700 / 701]
Write installation date...
[Progress: 701 / 701]
[SUCCESS]: Magento installation complete.
[SUCCESS]: Magento Admin URI: /admin_1k4pc0
Nothing to import.

Remember the ‘Magento Admin URI’. You will need this info later as that’s the URL
that you’ll be using to log in to the Magento back-end.

Change the ownership of the magento2 directory to www-data with the following
command:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/magento2/

Create an Nginx Con guration File

Create an Nginx con guration le with your text editor:

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/magento2

Then add the following as the le’s content:

upstream fastcgi_backend {
server unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
server {
server_name yourdomain.com;
listen 80;
set $MAGE_ROOT /var/www/magento2;
set $MAGE_MODE developer; # or production
access_log /var/log/nginx/magento2-access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/magento2-error.log;
include /var/www/magento2/nginx.conf.sample;
}

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Make sure that you set yourdomain.com to your registered domain name.

Remove the default Nginx con guration le, if is not being used:

rm -f /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Enable the newly created Nginx con guration le, then test the Nginx con guration
and make sure that there are no errors:

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/magento2 /etc/nginx/sites-
enabled/magento2

nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

That’s it! Your web server is now successfully con gured.

Install an SSL Certi cate

We’re going to install a free SSL certi cate from Let’s Encrypt. Install the required
packages by running this command:

apt-get install certbot python3-certbot-nginx

Then install a new SSL certi cate for your domain name, making sure that
yourdomain.com is set to your registered domain name:

certbot --nginx -d yourdomain.com -d www.yourdomain.com

Please select ‘2’ and choose to redirect HTTP tra c to HTTPS:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - -
1: No redirect - Make no further changes to the webserver
configuration.
2: Redirect - Make all requests redirect to secure HTTPS access.
Choose this for
new sites, or if you're confident your site works on HTTPS. You can
undo this
change by editing your web server's configuration.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - -
Select the appropriate number [1-2] then [enter] (press 'c' to
cancel): 2

Use the following Magento 2 CLI commands to update the Magento base-url and
the base-url-secure values:

cd /var/www/magento2/

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php bin/magento setup:store-config:set --base-

url="https://yourdomain.com/"

php bin/magento setup:store-config:set --base-url-

secure="https://yourdomain.com/"

Edit the Nginx con guration le and enable HTTP/2:

nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/magento2

Replace:

listen 443 ssl;

With:

listen 443 ssl http2;

Restart the Nginx service for the changes to take e ect:

systemctl restart cron.service

Install Cron Job

Magento requires a cron job con guration for many important system functions.
Let’s create the following cron job:

crontab -u www-data -e

Add this to the le:

* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/bin/magento cron:run |

grep -v "Ran jobs by schedule" >>
/var/www/magento2/var/log/magento.cron.log

Save and close the le.

Restart the cron service:

systemctl restart cron.service

That is everything! Magento 2 has been successfully installed on your server.

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You can access the Magento front-end at http://yourdomain.com :

Log in to the Magento 2 back-end at http://yourdomain.com/Magento Admin URI, and

con gure Magento according to your needs. You can install extensions, add
products, categories, and more.

It’s becoming more and more important to have online presence in

today’s digital world. You don’t need to be an expert in Linux system
administration when you use our Managed Magento hosting – we’ll set
everything up for you and maintain it, all included with our VPS. We
can even optimize your server as well as perform any requests that
you might have. You’ll still have full control over your server, but you’ll
never need to go through any hassle ever again.

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6 thoughts on “How to Install Magento 2.4 with LEMP Stack on Ubuntu

20.04”

Teddy
November 14, 2020 | Reply

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I get a blank page on setup

Magento 2.4, PHP 7.4 Nginx.
I have even tried changing permission to the unsafe 777 but nothing seems
to work

admin
November 15, 2020 | Reply

Do not use 777 permissions on the website les. It is a huge security

risk.

Magento les should be owned by the webserver user (e.g. www-

data).

What OS do you have installed on your server?

Ateq
February 25, 2021 | Reply

Thanks! for your nice instruction. It is working for me :)

Ra aele Filomena
March 21, 2021 | Reply

very nice post, i have istalled my Magento2 local in Vmware Ubuntu.

how con gure host le to make my magento external?
example in my phisical machine windows

Ha zur
April 1, 2021 | Reply

I get a blank page on setup

Magento 2.4, PHP 7.4 Nginx.
I have even tried changing permission to the unsafe 777 but nothing seems
to work

I face same like blank page .

Ubunto Os

admin
April 2, 2021 | Reply

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Revert the le/directory permissions. Do not use 777 permissions.

Did you run this command:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/magento_install_dir/

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