Server Techno Lab: Install Magento 2 with Nginx, Self signed SSL, MariaDB 10.x, PHP 7.3 on Ubuntu 20

Description: Here I have explained, How to install Magento 2 with Nginx, Self signed SSL, MariaDB 10.x, PHP 7.3 on Ubuntu 20

Before start the installation Update the packages

# apt update

Install Nginx using apt command

# apt install nginx

Start and Enable Nginx service. Check the Nginx service status

# systemctl start nginx

# systemctl enable nginx

# systemctl status nginx

Install and configure PHP-FPm 7.3
Before install PHP add repository for same

# sudo apt install software-properties-common

# add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Install PHP from PPA repository

# apt install php7.3-fpm php7.3-common php7.3-curl php7.3-cli php7.3-mysql php7.3-gd php7.3-xml php7.3-json php7.3-intl php-pear php7.3-dev php7.3-common php7.3-mbstring php7.3-zip php7.3-soap php7.3-bcmath php7.3-opcache -y

Update PHP FPm and CLI configuration as follow

Open /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini and vi /etc/php/7.3/cli/php.ini configuration file and update the parameters as follow:


date.timezone = Asia/Kolkata
memory_limit = 2G
max_execution_time = 1800
zlib.output_compression = On
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

opcache.enable=1 
opcache.save_comments = 1

Start and Enable php-fpm service. Also check php-fpm status

# systemctl start php7.3-fpm

# systemctl enable php7.3-fpm

# systemctl status php7.3-fpm

Install and Configure MariaDB

# apt install mariadb-server

After installation start and enable mariadb service

# systemctl start mariadb

# systemctl enable mariadb

Configure Mariadb

# mysql_secure_installation


Set a root password? [Y/n] Y
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y

# mysql -u root -p


create database magentodb;
create user magentouser@'localhost' identified by 'magentopassdb';
grant all privileges on magentodb.* to magentouser@'localhost';
flush privileges;

Install composer and verify the version

# apt install composer -y

# composer --version

Download and Install Magento 2

# cd /var/www ### You can change to path as per your requirement ###

# wget -q https://github.com/magento/magento2/archive/2.3.5.tar.gz

# tar -xf 2.3.5.tar.gz

# mv magento2-2.3.5/ magento2

# cd /var/www/magento2/

# composer install

# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/magento2

Setup SSL for Magento Site: Here I am going to create self signed certificate and use it for same

Generate Self Signed SSL in ubuntu [In this example I will use magentotestlab.com as URL]

# mkdir /home/ssl

# cd /home/ssl

# openssl req -newkey rsa:4096 -x509 -sha256 -days 3650 -nodes -out magentotestlab.crt -keyout magentotestlab.key


Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:IN
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:GJ
Locality Name (eg, city) []:AH
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:magentotestlab pvt ltd
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:IT
Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:magentotestlab.com
Email Address []:

Note: After filled all the details certificate and key file will be created on same path

Setup Nginx Virtual Host for Magento2

Open the Nginx configuration directory and create configuration for Magento

# cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/

# vi magentotestlab ### Create the configuration and paste as follow ###

upstream fastcgi_backend {
        server  unix:/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
}

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name magentotestlab.com;
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {

        listen 443 ssl http2;
        server_name magentotestlab.com;

        ssl_certificate /home/ssl/magentotestlab.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key /home/ssl/magentotestlab.key;

        set $MAGE_ROOT /var/www/magento2;
        set $MAGE_MODE developer;
        include /var/www/magento2/nginx.conf.sample;
}

Remove Default host configuration from /etc/nginx/sites-available and /etc/nginx/sites-enable

After remove the configuration link the configuration using ln command

# ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/magentotestlab /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

# nginx -t ### Verify the configuration after setup ###