Category: Magento

How to create theme in Magento 2-

1. Install magento 2.
2. Go to admin panel and login.
3. Now you may see this window ( links not working )

4. To solve the issue, open your xampp shell

5. Specify your path

6.  Run following command from Magento root:
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

7. Go to admin panel and check if the issue has fixed. You can see the admin panel like this.

8. Now you can start with creating your custom theme.
9. At first, create your folder in C:\xampp\htdocs\Magento2_new\app\design\frontend\ and create your folder within

10. Add or copy from an existing theme.xml to your theme directory app/design/frontend/

11.  Add a composer.json file to the theme directory and register the package on a packaging server.

12. To register your theme in the system, in your theme directory add a registration.php file with the following content:

13. Copy a media folder from an existing theme to your theme directory.
14. Create directories for static files. Your theme will likely contain several types of static files: styles, fonts, JavaScript and images. Each type should be stored in a separate sub-directory of web in your theme folder:

15. At this point your theme file structure looks as follows:

16. Your theme is created now. Login to admin panel and go to Stores -> Configuration -> Design, you can see your theme. Select your theme and save it.

17. Run the following commands for static content deployment and database update from your root directory
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
18. You can customize your site now, using your own theme.

Install Magento 2 – beginner’s guide – Before continuing, make sure you have all the prerequisites, required for running Magento 2, below are system requirements

System requirements:
1. Apache Version: 2.2 or 2.4
2. PHP version: 5.5.x, where x is 22 or greater
3. MySQL Version : 5.6.x and upper

Installation
1. First and easiest way is to download the Magento installation package from official Magento site https://www.magentocommerce.com/download (Install from archive file – In this installation Magento core code is stored under /vendor directory and updating is possible through Magento admin.)

See below screenshot

2. Create one folder and Unzip in and put it under C:\xampp\htdocs\FOLDER_NAME
3. Create a MySQL Database for Magento2 form phpmyadmin.
4. Go through the Magento installation process, below is the first screen

Click on button Agree and Setup Magento

Click to start Readiness Check button to move forword

If all the requirements are ok then it’ll show tick mark for that, click on Next button

Here add all the fields properly as mentioned, host, Database Username and password, database name, Table prefix, etc

and continue with the next button.

In this step it’ll ask for your store’s admin url.

5. After successful installation you will get this page
6. Your frontend will look like this

7. Your backend will look like this

Installation of Magento 2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – I am writing this article for absolute beginner with deeper explanation of all steps which are required to install and configure Magento 2.0 on Ubuntu OS.
Let’s start:
a) Install Apache2, PHP, MySQL Server, composer and required packages for Magento 2.0.       Using command:

1. $ sudo apt-get install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php mysql-server php-mysql php- dom php-simplexml php-curl php-intl php-xsl php-mbstring php-zip php-xml composer

1. $ sudo a2enmod rewrite

b) After successfully installation of these packages, make changes in the apache2.conf file     and AllowOverride all for Directory permission.

1. $ cd /etc/apache
2. $ Sudo nano apache2.conf

Changes from

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride none
Require all granted

To

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Require all granted

c) Use ^x (Ctrl + X) to exit from edit file screen. After making change in Config file, you need     to restart Apache. Use this command:

1. $ sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

d) Next step to install Magento 2 in var/www/html document using these commands:

1. cd /var/ww/html/
2. git clone https://github.com/magento/magento2.git
3. cd magento2
4. composer install

e) You might face problem while installing Composer in Magneto 2 directory, like some of          PHP extensions are missing. Don’t be panic in this case and install missing extensions.

Using commands like-

1. $ Sudo apt-get install php-exnteionname (like php-gd)

After installing all missing PHP extensions, change current directory to Magento 2 and            install composer:

1. $ cd /var/www/html/magento2
2. $ composer install

f) Following messages come on screen:
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file

– Installing magento/magento-composer-installer (0.1.6)
Downloading: 100%

– Installing braintree/braintree_php (2.39.0)
Downloading: 100%

– Installing justinrainbow/json-schema (1.6.1)
Downloading: 100%

– Installing symfony/console (v2.6.13)
Downloading: 100%

– Installing symfony/process (v2.8.4)
Downloading: 100%

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– Installing composer/composer (1.0.0-alpha10)
Downloading: 100%

– Installing magento/composer (1.0.2)
Authentication required (repo.magento.com):

Username:
Password:

  If composer prompts for authentication.

  Login to Login here https://www.magentocommerce.com/ and use public key as    Username and private key as Password.

g) Next step is to change directories permission to

1. $ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/magento2/
2. $ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/magento2/var/
3. $ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/magento2/pub/

Now we move to Mysql. To create Mysql database for magento 2 installation.

Use Following command:
$ sudo mysql –u root -p
Enter Sudo password and now you are ready to execute Sql queries using mysql prompt.      Enter the following commands in the order to create a database instance named     magento2 with user name magento2
h) Create database magento2;
GRANT ALL ON magento.* TO magento2@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘magento2’;
Database magento2 is created and all permissions are granted to magent2@localhost         user with password magento2.
To check you can use:

1. $ sudo mysql –u magento2 -p

Enter password magento2 and use sql query:

1. Mysql > show database;

Use exit to come out from mysql prompt.

Now you are ready for final step to install magento2.

    Open http://localhost/magento2/setup/

If you face any permission issue, grant permission to Magento 2 root directory-

1. $ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/magento2/

When you get green check for file permission check, click next till installation finish.
You can browse magento 2 using
     http://localhost/magento2/
     or
     http://{ipaddress}/magento2/

At this stage, we are completed with Magento 2 installation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Hope it       helps you!