{"id":125,"date":"2026-01-28T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farbyte.uk\/new-blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:36:07","slug":"how-to-install-magento-2-on-ubuntu-22-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farbyte.uk\/blog\/how-to-install-magento-2-on-ubuntu-22-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install Magento 2 On Ubuntu 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Farbyte we offer unmanaged &amp; managed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/farbyte.uk\/hosting\/vps\/magento\">Magento 2 cloud hosting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re using our managed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/farbyte.uk\/hosting\/vps\/managed\">Magento cloud VPS hosting<\/a>\u00a0service, we&#8217;ll install Magento for you, however, if you use our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/farbyte.uk\/hosting\/vps\/unmanaged\">unmanaged VPS<\/a>, you&#8217;ll need to install Magento 2 yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This guide will help you through the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Magento 2?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Magento 2 is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is used by businesses to create and manage online stores and shopping carts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magento 2 offers a variety of features and tools for creating and customising an online store, including support for multiple payment gateways, shipping methods, and multiple languages and currencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Installing Magento 2 on a Ubuntu 22.04 server may be useful for users who want to create and manage their own online store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform&#8217;s customisable features and tools can help businesses to create a unique and user-friendly shopping experience for their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the ability to manage the store from a central administration panel can save time and effort for store owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview of installing Magento 2 on Ubuntu 22.04<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To successfully install Magento 2 on a Ubuntu 22.04 server, the following requirements must be met:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The server must be running Ubuntu 22.04<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A web server (such as Apache or Nginx) must be installed and running on the server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PHP 7.4 or higher must be installed and configured on the server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A database (such as MySQL or MariaDB) must be installed and configured on the server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Composer, a dependency manager for PHP, must be installed on the server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Additionally, the server should have sufficient resources (such as CPU, memory, and disk space) to run Magento 2 and support the desired number of users and store products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Install Apache, PHP MySQL &amp; Composer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To install Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Composer on Ubuntu 22.04, you can follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update the package index:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo apt update<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Install Apache:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo apt install apache2<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Install PHP and some necessary PHP extensions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo apt install php php-common php-mysql php-xml php-intl php-mbstring<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Install MySQL:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo apt install mysql-server<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Install Composer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>php -r \"copy('https:\/\/getcomposer.org\/installer', 'composer-setup.php');\"\nphp composer-setup.php\nphp -r \"unlink('composer-setup.php');\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Once all of the necessary components are installed, you can proceed with installing Magento 2 on your Ubuntu 22.04 server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important to ensure that the components are properly configured and working before attempting to install Magento 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Download &amp; extract the Magento 2 installation archive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To download the Magento 2 installation archive on Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the wget command to download the archive from the Magento website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, navigate to the directory where you want to download the installation archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, we&#8217;ll download it directly to the Ubuntu Apache servers default website document root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>cd \/var\/www\/<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, use the following wget command to download the archive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>wget https:\/\/magento.com\/download<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This will download the latest version of Magento 2 to the current directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can then extract the contents of the archive using the tar command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>tar -xzf magento-latest.tar.gz<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the installation files have been moved to the desired location, you can proceed with the next steps of the installation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following command will move all the files &amp; directories in in the &#8216;<strong>magento2&#8242;<\/strong>&nbsp;directory to the \/var\/www directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>mv -f \/var\/www\/magento2\/{.,}* \/var\/www<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we should remove the empty magent2 directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>rm -fr \/var\/www\/magento2<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Set appropriate permissions on the Magento 2 directory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To set appropriate permissions on the Magento 2 directory on Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the chown and chmod commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, use the chown command to set the ownership of the Magento 2 directory to the www-data user and group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will allow the web server, in this case Apache, to access and modify the files in the directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo chown -R www-data:www-data \/var\/www<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, use the chmod command to set the permissions on the Magento 2 directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magento 2 requires specific permissions for certain directories and files in order to function properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following chmod command will set the correct permissions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo find \/var\/www -type d -exec chmod 770 {} \\; &amp;&amp; sudo find \/var\/www -type f -exec chmod 660 {} \\; &amp;&amp; sudo chmod u+x \/var\/www\/bin\/magento<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After setting the correct permissions, you can proceed with the next steps of the installation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important to ensure that the permissions are set correctly, as incorrect permissions can cause issues with the functioning of Magento 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Use Composer to install the required PHP dependencies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To use Composer to install the required PHP dependencies for Magento 2 on Ubuntu 22.04, you can follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>&nbsp;Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where the Magento 2 installation files are located.<br>For example, above we installed Magento 2 in the \/var\/www directory, so you would use the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>cd \/var\/www<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong>&nbsp;Use the &#8220;<strong>composer install<\/strong>&#8221; command to install the required PHP dependencies for Magento 2.&nbsp;This command will download and install the necessary dependencies from the Magento 2 repository on Packagist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>composer install<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>&nbsp;Wait for the dependencies to be installed.<br>This may take some time, depending on the speed of your internet connection and the size of the dependencies being installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong>&nbsp;After the dependencies have been installed, you can proceed with the next steps of the installation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Create a new MySQL database for Magento 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To create a new MySQL database for Magento 2 on Ubuntu 22.04, follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>&nbsp;Open a terminal and log in to the MySQL command line interface as the root user:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>mysql -u root -p<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong>&nbsp;Create a new database for Magento 2 by using the&nbsp;<strong>CREATE DATABASE<\/strong>&nbsp;statement.<br>Replace &lt;dbname&gt; with the desired name for the database:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>CREATE DATABASE &lt;dbname&gt;;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>&nbsp;Create a new MySQL user for Magento 2 by using the&nbsp;<strong>CREATE USER<\/strong>&nbsp;statement.<br>Replace&nbsp;<strong>&lt;username&gt;<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>&lt;password&gt;<\/strong>&nbsp;with the desired username and password for the user:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>CREATE USER '&lt;username&gt;'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '&lt;password&gt;';<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong>&nbsp;Grant the new user permission to access and modify the Magento 2 database by using the&nbsp;<strong>GRANT<\/strong>&nbsp;statement.<br>Replace&nbsp;<strong>&lt;dbname&gt;<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>&lt;username&gt;<\/strong>&nbsp;with the name of the Magento 2 database and the username of the new MySQL user:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON &lt;dbname&gt;.* TO '&lt;username&gt;'@'localhost';<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong>&nbsp;Save the changes and exit the MySQL command line interface by using the&nbsp;<strong>FLUSH PRIVILEGES<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>EXIT<\/strong>&nbsp;statements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;\nEXIT;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After creating the MySQL database and user for Magento 2, you can proceed with the next steps of the installation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Run the Magento 2 installation script<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To run the Magento 2 installation script on Ubuntu 22.04, you will need to follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open a terminal window and navigate to the directory where you extracted the installation archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our case this is \/var\/www<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>cd \/var\/www<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Run the following command to start the installation script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>php bin\/magento setup:install<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The installation script will ask you to provide the database connection details, as well as your store&#8217;s base URL and other configuration settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enter the appropriate information and continue through the prompts to complete the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the installation is complete, you can access your Magento 2 store by navigating to your store&#8217;s base URL in a web browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7. 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