Error during installation of Magento 2 on Digital Ocean, Ubuntu 16

[The_Panwar]

Hello friends,

I am pleased to be here with experts.

For development purpose I was on shared hosting with GoDaddy where I installed Magento 2.2.2 without any major errors.

Concerning for security and speed, I decided to move to cloud hosting where initially I am new to cloud hosting and using Digital Ocean as my first ever cloud hosting provider.

I installed LAMP on Ubuntu 16 at Digital Ocean via SSH/CLI.

Extracted the Magento2-CE zipped folder in the root directory. 

Here I am facing problems when "Step 1: Readiness Check" started:

STEP1: PHP Extensions Check

-- 4 missing PHP extensions.PHP Extension curl.

PHP Extension intl.

PHP Extension soap.

PHP Extension zip.

To resolve, I removed ; (colon) from every line

- PHP Extension.intl (line #899)
- PHP Extension.soap(line #921)
- and PHP Extension.xsl(line #926)

  but couldn't find PHP Extension zip anywhere.

Second problem is with "File Permission Check" which I couldn't rectify at my own and require your support.

For your reference I am sending you the screenshot where initially I am having the problem. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

[Manthan Dave · Accepted solution]

You need to give write permission to few directories like , static,var,generated etc.

assuming Magento is installed in /var/www/html/magento2:

Run below command to give permission  :

cd /var/www/html/magento2 && find var vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type f -exec chmod g+w {} \; && find var vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type d -exec chmod g+w {} \; && chmod u+x bin/magento

Here is the full guideline to resolve this issue - http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/comp-mgr/trouble/cman/rc_perms.html

[The_Panwar · Accepted solution]

Hello Manthan

Thanks a lot for the guidance.

Permission part is resolved after changing the permission.

Thanks a lot again.

[Manthan Dave · Accepted solution]

Happy to help !! Keep helping !!

[The_Panwar · Accepted solution]

Hello Manthan

I again need your help.

I installed M2 on Ubunto 16 at Digital Ocean. After installation, I tried to access the admin page which is not accessible anyway and showing "This site can't be reached". www.Flazon.com refuses to connect.

I tried to resolve it and at several places came to know that it could be a rewrite issue with apache 2.

I will be thankful to you or anyone in this forum, if could help me solving this issue step-by-step.

Thanks again in advance.

[Manthan Dave · Accepted solution]

Sure , if its confirm that you have issue with the url mode rewrite , for magento 2 yes url rewrite mode needs to be enabled !!

so here is the reference link how to enable url rewrite of apache2 - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-mod_rewrite

Also if admin panel is not open them please check and confirm you have .htaccess file in root folder ?

i have seen your website css and js are not loading for that run below command :

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Also after that please clear cache by running command php bin/magento cache:clean and php bin/magento cache:flush

[The_Panwar · Accepted solution]

Thanks my friend again for your prompt reply. I honestly appreciate your support.

I tried to modify apache2 configuration file 000-default.conf but unfortunately couldn't succeed.

I couldn't find myself comfortable in changing configuration of apache2 and .htaccess.

If possible for you can you please explain this:

   <Directory /var/www/html/example.com/public_html>

        Require all granted

   </Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName flazon.com

  ServerAlias www.flazon.com

  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/

  ErrorLog /var/www/html/logs/error.log

  CustomLog /var/www/html/logs/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

As my M2 root files are under /var/www/html,  IS IT SIMILAR TO:

   <Directory /var/www/html/>

        Require all granted

   </Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName flazon.com

  ServerAlias www.flazon.com

  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/

  ErrorLog /var/www/html/logs/error.log (Do I need to create a log folder to hold error.log?)

  CustomLog /var/www/html/logs/access.log combined (what is custom log?)

</VirtualHost>

[Manthan Dave · Accepted solution]

For apache i think its perfect , for this server related issue better to ask your hosting provider. they might help you in this case.

Regarding .htaccess file you can download .htaccess file from here - https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/2.0.4/.htaccess

[The_Panwar · Accepted solution]

Hello Manthan

Thanks a lot for your support and suggestions.

Finally with your help, I reached to the goal.

M2 is installed successfully at my domain on Digital Ocean.

Can you please help me a bit in installing modules which we have purchased from Webkul (multi-vendor and SSO (single signon))?

Hope to have your further support.

[Manthan Dave · Accepted solution]

Sure !! you can install module/extension by following step by step guideline of webkul , they provide documentation for how to install extension for the same.

you can install extension by putting all the files of extensions in app/code directory of Magento2!!

after putting that you need to run below commands sequencelly

.

1) php bin/magento setup:upgrade

2) php bin/magento setup:di:compile

3) php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f

4) php bin/magento cache:clean

5) php bin/magento cache:flush

then after check your extension will be installed!!