In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Magento With Nginx on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, Magento is one of the world’s most widely used applications for managing E-Commerce sites. Magento is fully customizable to meet the user’s requirements and allows them to create and launch a fully functional online store in minutes. Magento employs the MySQL relational database management system, the PHP programming language, and elements of the Zend Framework.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Magento with Nginx on CentOS 7.
Prerequisites
- A server running one of the following operating systems: CentOS 7.
- It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
- SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
- A
non-root sudo useror access to theroot user. We recommend acting as anon-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.
Install Magento With Nginx on CentOS 7
Step 1. First of all, make sure that all packages are up to date.
yum -y update
Step 2. Install Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB.
You need to enable the EPEL repository on your system:
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://nginx.org/packages/centos/7/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-7-0.el7.ngx.noarch.rpm yum -y upgrade yum install mariadb mariadb-server nginx php-fpm php-mysql php-pear php-bcmath php-common php-gd php-pdo php-pdo-mysql php-mcrypt
Start the Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB server, enable it to start on boot:
## Nginx systemctl start nginx systemctl enable nginx ## MariaDB systemctl start mariadb systemctl enable mariadb ## PHP-FPM systemctl start php-fpm systemctl enable php-fpm
Step 3. Configuring MariaDB for Magento.
By default, MariaDB is not hardened. You can secure MariaDB using the mysql_secure_installation script. you should read and below each step carefully which will set a root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MariaDB:
mysql_secure_installation
Next, we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for Magento. Run the following command:
mysql -u root -p
This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for Magento installation:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE magentodb; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON magentodb . * TO magentouser@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD' WITH GRANT OPTION; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Step 4. Configure the Nginx web server for Magento.
Create an Nginx virtual block for your domain with the following content:
$ nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/magentodomain.conf
server {
listen 80 default;
server_name www.magentoodomain.com *.magentoodomain.com;
root /var/www/html/magento
location / {
index index.html index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ @handler;
expires 30d;
}
location ^~ /app/ { deny all; }
location ^~ /includes/ { deny all; }
location ^~ /lib/ { deny all; }
location ^~ /media/downloadable/ { deny all; }
location ^~ /pkginfo/ { deny all; }
location ^~ /report/config.xml { deny all; }
location ^~ /var/ { deny all; }
location /var/export/ {
auth_basic "Restricted";
auth_basic_user_file htpasswd;
autoindex on;
}
location /. {
return 404;
}
location @handler {
rewrite / /index.php;
}
location ~ .php/ {
rewrite ^(.*.php)/ $1 last;
}
location ~ .php$ {
if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite / /index.php last; }
expires off;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE default;
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store;
include fastcgi_params; ## See /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params
}
}
Restart the Nginx web server and PHP-FPM for the changes to take effect:
systemctl restart nginx systemctl restart php-fpm
Step 4. Install Magento.
Download the latest stable version of Magento, At the moment of writing this article it is version 1.9.1.0:
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.9.0.1/magento-1.9.0.1.zip
Unpack the Magento archive to the document root directory on your server:
tar -xvzf magento-1.9.1.0.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/ rm magento-1.9.1.0.tar.gz
Set proper permissions:
cd /var/www/html/magento chmod -R o+w app/etc/ chmod -R o+w var/ chmod -R o+w media/
Step 5. Accessing Magento Web UI.
Magento will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com/ or http://your-server-ip and complete the required steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Magento. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Magento eCommerce on CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Magento website.
