Introduction

This chapter explains how to install Magento 2 on a hosting environment. When installing a new Magento 2 instance, we can use either a Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) or Linux, NGINX, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) setup. Currently, options such as MariaDB or HHVM are equivalent to MySQL or PHP. Only HHVM will be converted in this chapter.

We will install a clean Magento 2 setup on a hosted virtual private server (VPS) for more advanced users and an easy-to-use installation on Hypernode.

The recipes in this chapter will primarily focus on a basic setup of how to install Magento 2. However, in some situations, we will dive in deeper related to the subject.

While Magento requirements differ from Magento 1, we will be using the latest and finest version from PHP, HHVM, NGINX, Apache, Redis, MySQL, and Ubuntu.

Tip

Creating a new Magento 2 stack could bring up minor issues. Always update to the latest available version, if possible.