Installing Magento on CentOS 8

Magento is a popular open-source e-commerce platform that allows businesses to set up online stores. It provides a flexible and customizable solution for online merchants to manage their products, orders, payments, and other aspects of their online business.

Here are the steps to install Magento on CentOS 8:

1. Update your system:

   sudo dnf update

2. Install Apache web server, MariaDB database server, and PHP:

   sudo dnf install httpd mariadb-server php php-cli php-common php-mbstring php-intl php-soap php-gd php-xml php-json php-mysqlnd

3. Start and enable Apache and MariaDB services:

   sudo systemctl start httpd
   sudo systemctl enable httpd
   sudo systemctl start mariadb
   sudo systemctl enable mariadb

4. Secure your MariaDB installation:

   sudo mysql_secure_installation

5. Create a new database and user for Magento:

   sudo mysql -u root -p
   CREATE DATABASE magento;
   CREATE USER 'magentouser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON magento.* TO 'magentouser'@'localhost';
   FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
   EXIT;

6. Download Magento from the official website or using composer:

   cd /var/www/html
   sudo php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
   sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
   sudo composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition magento

7. Set proper file permissions and ownership:

   sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/magento
   sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/magento

8. Configure Apache virtual host:

   sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/magento.conf

   Add the following content to the file:

   Listen 8080
   
     ServerName your-domain.com
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento
     
     
       AllowOverride All
     
   

9. Restart Apache service:

   sudo systemctl restart httpd

10. Open your web browser and visit your Magento site at http://your-domain.com:8080 to start the installation process.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Magento on CentOS 8. You can now proceed with the Magento installation wizard to configure your online store.