Installing Magento on CentOS 7

Magento is a powerful and popular open-source e-commerce platform used by businesses of all sizes to create online stores. It offers a wide range of features and customization options to suit different business needs. In order to install Magento on CentOS 7, follow the steps below:

Open your web browser and visit http://your_domain_name. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Magento installation. Provide the necessary information such as database details and admin credentials.

1. Update the System:
2. sudo yum update -y
3. Install LAMP Stack:
4. sudo yum install httpd mariadb-server php php-mysqlnd -y
5. Start and Enable Apache and MariaDB:
6. sudo systemctl start httpd sudo systemctl enable httpd sudo systemctl start mariadb sudo systemctl enable mariadb
7. Secure MariaDB Installation:
8. sudo mysql_secure_installation
   • Set a password for the MariaDB root user.
   • Remove anonymous user accounts.
   • Disallow remote root login.
   • Remove the test database and access to it.
   • Reload privilege tables and apply changes.
9. Create a Magento Database and User:
10. sudo mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE magento; CREATE USER 'magento'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YourStrongPassword'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON magento.* TO 'magento'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit Replace 'YourStrongPassword' with a strong password for the Magento user.
11. Install PHP Extensions:
12. sudo yum install php-gd php-xml php-pear php-bcmath php-intl php-soap -y
13. Download and Extract Magento:
14. sudo yum install wget -y cd ~ wget https://magento.com/tech-resources/download?file=&ver=2.4.2-p1 tar -xzf download\?file\=\&ver\=2.4.2-p1 sudo mv magento2.4.2-p1 /var/www/html/magento sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/magento sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/magento
15. Configure Magento:
16. sudo yum install nano -y sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/magento.conf Add the following configurations to the file:

                        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento           ServerName your_domain_name                        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride All             Require all granted                                 ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/magento_error.log           CustomLog /var/log/httpd/magento_access.log combined                

    Replace 'your_domain_name' with your actual domain name.
17. Restart Apache:
18. sudo systemctl restart httpd
19. Complete Magento Installation: