Install Magento 2.4 on ubuntu

1. Install Apache

First updates the package lists in the repositories, run below command

sudo apt update

Install Apache, run below command

sudo apt install apache2

To verify if apache2 was installed properly, in your browser, enter your domain or IP address. If the result is the apache default page like the below screenshot everything is fine.

2. Install Mysql

In your ssh client, use the below command to install Mysql

sudo apt install mysql-server mysql-client

Now we will test if MySQL is installed properly by running the below command:

mysql -u root -p

After entering the root password. If you see the below screen Mysql was installed properly.

3. Install PHP

Magento 2.4 require PHP 7.4, so we will install php 7.4 in this tutorial.

First, run these lines in advance to update repositories

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update

Then, run the below line to install PHP 7.4 and all the required PHP extensions

sudo apt install php7.4 libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-common php7.4-gmp php7.4-curl php7.4-soap php7.4-bcmath php7.4-intl php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-mysql php7.4-gd php7.4-xml php7.4-cli php7.4-zip

4. Create database

First, run the command below to log into MySQL

mysql -u root -p

Next create a new database named: magento2

CREATE DATABASE magento2;

Next create a new user: magedev with password = dev@123456

CREATE USER 'magedev'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'dev@123456';

Then grant access to the database to user magedev.

GRANT ALL ON magento2.* TO 'magedev'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'dev@123456' WITH GRANT OPTION;

5. Install and configure Elasticsearch

From version 2.4 Magento uses Elasticsearch to search instead of using Mysql.

First, we will install Openjdk11 (Java) as Elasticsearch runs on Java

sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk -y

Elasticsearch is not available in Ubuntu repositories. To be able to install you will need to add a Source list To get started, use cURL to enter your Elasticsearch public GPG key.

curl -fsSL https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -

Add Elastic-7.x.list to sources.list.d folder

echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list

Then install Elasticsearch:

sudo apt install elasticsearch

Configure Elasticsearch: Change file /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

Then find the line network.host uncomment and change it to localhost like below

Next add port 8080 to apache listen port file located in: /etc/apache2/ports.conf like below

Next add below code to virtual host file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/magentodomain.conf

<VirtualHost *:8080>
    ProxyPass "/" "http://localhost:9200/"
    ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://localhost:9200/"
</VirtualHost>

Restart apache to apply changes

sudo service apache2 restart

Now start elasticsearch service and test if it’s working properly

sudo systemctl start elasticsearch
curl -X GET 'http://localhost:9200'

If elasticsearch is working properly, the result should be like this

6. Download and Install Magento 2.4

In this articles, we will install Magento 2.4 using composer.

Download and Install composer

sudo apt install curl git
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Then proceed to download magento and place it in the var/www/html directory with the command

cd /var/www/html
sudo composer create-project --repository=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition magento2

Create an account on Magento marketplace and go here to get private and public access key.

Next run the command below to install Magento 2.4

cd /var/www/html/magento2
php bin/magento setup:install \
--base-url=http://example.com/ \
--db-host=localhost \
--db-name=magento2 \
--db-user=magedev \
--db-password=dev@123456 \
--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 \
--search-engine=elasticsearch7 \
--elasticsearch-host=localhost \
--elasticsearch-port=9200

When everything is done you will see below screen

Then run the command below to grant the necessary permissions for Magento to work.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/magento2

Now you can access your store at this url: http://example.com

Troubleshoot admin login authentication error

You may see this error when you go to the admin dashboard page.

There are 2 ways to fix this: Disable Two-Factor Authorization or follow the steps to enable it

Run the command below to disable module Magento TwoFactorAuth

php bin/magento module:disable Magento_TwoFactorAuth

We have successfully installed Magento 2.4 with Nginx, PHP 7.4 and Mysql on Ubuntu. Contact us if you face any problems during the installation process.