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Mastering Magento 2

Chapter 2. Installing Magento 2

Now that you've got your plan in hand from Chapter 1, Planning for Magento, it's time to now take the leap and install Magento 2 Community. While some hosting providers will install Magento for you, or provide installation assistance, Magento makes installation fairly easy. There are a few points to pay attention to, but if you follow the steps in this chapter, you'll be up and running with Magento in quick order.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

Installation strategies to improve Magento performance
How to configure multiple websites and stores
Strategies for backups and security

Setting up Magento stores

As we discussed in Chapter 1, Planning for Magento, Magento leads the open source community in its ability to manage multiple websites and stores within a single installation. This is an often overlooked power of Magento. It is also one of the more complex configuration issues.

To help illustrate how to configure multiple stores in Magento, let's set up an example. As shown in the following table, we are going to build two online businesses, each with their own categories and products, and one with three Store Views. The following table shows the GWS relationship of this example:

Business focus	Types of product	Domain	Language
Sportswear	Apparel	`www.AcmeSportswear.com`	English
Sportswear	Apparel	`www.AcmeSportswear.fr`	French
Sportswear	Apparel	`www.AcmeSportswear.de`	German
Furniture	Furniture	`www.AcmeFurniture.com`	English

If these are your planned stores, your next decision is how to set up your websites. As we discussed in Chapter 1...

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Updated for Magento 2, this book offers comprehensive coverage of all the new features of Magento to build modern online stores

Exploit little-known techniques to extend, tune, and manage your Magento installation

Detailed coverage to make your store run faster, better, and more productively

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The long-awaited release of the world's most popular online solution, Magento 2, is now out with an all new interface and several enhancements. This book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2. This is a comprehensive guide to using the all new features and interface of Magento 2 to build, extend, and design online stores. From planning your Magento installation through to advanced techniques designed to make your store as successful as possible, this book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store. Focusing on Magento's Community version, the book covers everything from creating and managing multiple stores to fine-tuning Magento for speed and performance. You’ll learn how to manage categories, products, design themes, extensions, and more.

What you will learn

Discover what makes Magento 2 different — and even more powerful

Develop strategies to create multi-store environments

Find out how to create themes and extend the functionality of Magento 2

Create sound development practices to ensure code integrity and security

Know the why, as well as the how, behind using Magento 2

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Andre Gugliotti Jul 18, 2016

Four years ago, when I first read the previous edition of this book, I tought: "Wow, this is the book I'd love to have written". Well, on this second edition, at least I can say: "I was honored about being invited to review the second edition and after that I love even more this book".That said, I can state that Bret Williams and Jonathan Bownds have done an amazing job when updating and expanding this "Mastering Magento" book, including the new version of this powerful ecommerce platform.This is not a book for beginners as its title says. But if you have the basic knowledge about Magento, this is the book you must have on your shelf or e-reader. It contains a series of "how I didn't think about that before" moments, explaining how to get your store into the next level and to get more and more from Magento. The most important, you have a step by step, with the major parts of the process of launching and running an online store with Magento 2.

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Amazon Customer Nov 02, 2016

This book like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest :)) perfect for readers who are eager to comprehend the essence of complicated Magento system. Many thanks to the writers and to Amazon for this excellent publication.

MASSIOT Justin Oct 13, 2016

To my knowledge this is the one and only book about Magento 2 that isn't written for developers. It deals with setting up a store from the administrator side and covers most of (if not all) the features of Magento 2.This book is complete and clear at a time. It helps me taking the right decisions for my e-commerce business.In the past I had many Internet pages, forums, etc. Now I have this book!

Amazon Customer Jul 04, 2017

For anyone building a new website on Magento 2, this is a required reading. It gives you a good overall framework to build on further knowledge. If you are an advanced Magento programmer this may not be for you as I think its written for beginners. Cheers!

Abhilash Acharya Jul 02, 2018

If you are planning to build your own store, It provides the complete idea regarding how to find a hosting provider, set up products, setup taxes, set up multistore etc. It focuses mostly on the backend configurations and setups.But if you are a Magento2 developer this book will not be very useful to you.

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