Magento 2.4 Installation Pre-Requisites

Operating Systems:

Linux x86-64
CentOS
Ubuntu
Debian

Note: Magento is not supported on Microsoft Windows and macOS

Memory

2GB or more of RAM

Web Service

Apache 2.4 (must enable ‘mod_rewrite’ & ‘mod_version’ modules)
Nginx 1.x

Database

MySQL 8.0

PHP Version

7.4.0

PHP Extensions

ext-bcmath
ext-ctype
ext-curl
ext-dom
ext-gd
ext-hash
ext-iconv
ext-intl
ext-mbstring
ext-openssl
ext-pdo_mysql
ext-simplexml
ext-soap
ext-xsl
ext-zip

Required system dependencies

Magento requires the following system tools for some of its operations:

Elasticsearch

As of Magento 2.4.0, MySQL is no longer used for search. You must use Elasticsearch. Magento supports Elasticsearch 7.6.x.

SSL

A valid security certificate is required for HTTPS.
Self-signed SSL certificates are not supported.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) requirement – PayPal and repo.magento.com both require TLS 1.2 or later

Mail Server

MTA (mail transfer agent)
SMTP server

Other Packages

Composer (Latest Version)
Php_xdebug 2.2.0+
PHPUnit 4.1+

Magento 2 Installation Via Composer

Follow the below step-by-step guide to Install Magento 2 using Composer, You can also find the official documentation here.

Steps to Install Magento 2 with Composer

Install Composer
Download Magento 2
Set Up Permissions for Magento
Create the Database
Install Magento 2

Install Composer

You can skip this step if you’ve already installed the Composer. (Windows users can use Installer)

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

1 2	curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer \| php mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Download Magento 2

Run the following Command in the root directory of the project:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition .

1	composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition .

Note: You’ll need Authentication Keys to Download Magento 2 via Composer. Follow the steps from Official Documentation to get you Authentication Keys.

Set Up Permissions for Magento

Now, you should set the correct permissions on the entire Magento 2 installation directory

cd < your Magento install dir >
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ./pub/media -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
find ./pub/static -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
chmod 777 ./var
chmod 777 ./generated
chmod 777 ./app/etc

cd < your Magento install dir >

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

find ./pub/media -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

find ./pub/static -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

chmod 777 ./var

chmod 777 ./generated

chmod 777 ./app/etc

Create the Database

It is assumed that you already have a MySQL user with the correct permissions. You can also use an existing blank database in the installation process.

echo "CREATE DATABASE magento2" | mysql -u[mysqluser] -p

1	echo "CREATE DATABASE magento2" \| mysql -u[mysqluser] -p

Install Magento 2

Use below command to install Magento 2 after changing the base URL and database credentials

php bin/magento setup:install --base-url="http://yourdomain.com/" --db-host="localhost" --db-name="database-name" --db-user="database-user" --db-password="database-password" --admin-firstname="admin" --admin-lastname="admin" --admin-email="user@example.com" --admin-user="admin" --admin-password="admin123" --language="en_US" --currency="USD" --timezone="America/Chicago" --use-rewrites="1" --backend-frontname="admin"

php bin/magento setup:install --base-url="http://yourdomain.com/" --db-host="localhost" --db-name="database-name" --db-user="database-user" --db-password="database-password" --admin-firstname="admin" --admin-lastname="admin" --admin-email="user@example.com" --admin-user="admin" --admin-password="admin123" --language="en_US" --currency="USD" --timezone="America/Chicago" --use-rewrites="1" --backend-frontname="admin"

Please Note: Magento no longer supports Installation via Web