Install Magento 2.0

install_magento.md

Install Magento 2.0

Download the software

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition <install_dir>
cd <install_dir>

Web server Permissions

chown -R :www-data .
find . -type d -exec chmod 770 {} \; && find . -type f -exec chmod 660 {} \; && chmod u+x bin/magento

Install software

Note: make sure your database user has the following permissions SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, REFERENCES, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES, EXECUTE, CREATE VIEW, SHOW VIEW, CREATE ROUTINE, ALTER ROUTINE, EVENT, TRIGGER

./bin/magento setup:install \
    --base-url=http://example.com/ \
    --backend-frontname=manage \
    --use-rewrites=1 \
    --use-secure=0 \
    --db-host=localhost \
    --db-name=magento_exercises \
    --db-user=magento_user \
    --db-password=secret \
    --admin-firstname=August \
    --admin-lastname=Ash \
    [email protected] \
    --admin-user=admin \
    --admin-password=admin123 \
    --language=en_US \
    --currency=USD \
    --timezone=America/Chicago

Enable developer mode

./bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

Sample data

./bin/magento sampledata:deploy
composer update
./bin/magento setup:upgrade