How do I seccussfully install magento 2 as i get an error message on the base-url.
I've tried changing localhost to 127.0.0.1
m246 in the root folder of my project.
Here are the steps for installing Magento 2 properly:
Step 1: Install and Configure XAMPP
- Install XAMPP and configure it according to your system requirements.
Step 2: Configure XAMPP
- In the XAMPP Control Panel, click the "Config" button on the “Apache” row, and select “PHP (php.ini)“.
Step 3: Modify php.ini Settings
- In the php.ini file, locate the following rows and remove the semicolon (
before each row:
- extension=intl
- extension=soap
- extension=sockets
- extension=sodium
- extension=xsl
- Increase the memory_limit to 4G:
- memory_limit=4G
Step 4: Configure Hosts File
- Open the file located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.
- Add the following line to the last row:
- 127.0.0.1 www.localhost.com
Step 5: Create a Database
Step 6: Install Elasticsearch
- Magento 2.4 requires Elasticsearch as the catalog search engine.
- Download Elasticsearch 7.6.0 from: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-7-6-0
- Extract the downloaded file, navigate to the extracted directory in a terminal window, and run the command:
- .\bin\elasticsearch.bat
- Verify the installation by accessing http://localhost:9200 in your browser.
Step 7: Download Magento using Composer
- Install the latest version of Composer and set up PATH environment variables for convenience.
- After installing Composer, downgrade to an earlier 1.x version using the command:
- composer self-update --1
Step 8: Download Magento
- Navigate to C:\xampp\htdocs and run the command:
- composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition=2.4.2 <install-directory-name>
Step 9: Install Magento via Command Line
- Before installing Magento 2.4, make necessary tweaks to Magento files to prevent errors.
- Replace the validateURLScheme function in \vendor\magento\framework\Image\Adapter\Gd2.php with the provided code snippet.
Step 10: Run Magento Setup
- Navigate to your Magento directory and execute the command:
- php bin/magento setup:install --base-url=http://localhost/magento24/ --db-host=localhost --db-name=yourdbname --db-user=yourdbuser --db-password=yourdbpassword --admin-firstname=admin --admin-lastname=admin --admin-email=admin@admin.com --admin-user=admin --admin-password=admin123 --language=en_US --currency=USD --timezone=America/Chicago --use-rewrites=1 --backend-frontname=admin --search-engine=elasticsearch7 --elasticsearch-host=localhost --elasticsearch-port=9200
I hope this guide proves helpful!