Magento is an open source e-commerce platform. It is one of the leading digital platforms to offer a robust selling experience.
What you need
- Magento 2.1 Community Edition
- Download — https://www.magentocommerce.com/download
- Sample Data Version provides products to play around with - Mamp 4.0
- This offers the most up to date SQL needed to run Magento 2
- If you try to update SQL without updating Mamp, you could have complications with your MyPHP Admin not reconizing the update
Installing Magento
- Extract contents from compressed folder into directory of your choosing in the Mamp htdocs folder.
E.g — Mamp > htdocs > myMagento
Place all the extracted files into the root of the Magento directory you create.
2. Open up Mamp and start the servers
3. Click on Open Webpage in Mamp dialog
4. This will take you to a localhost:xxxx url. The localhost url maybe localhost:8888
5. Open MyPHP Admin.
6. Click on the database tab at the top.
7. Create the database. Name it anything of your choosing.
8. Navigate to your Magento directory in the url
E.g — locahost:8888/myMagento
9. Press enter and browser will take you to the install page.
If going to this url for the first time it will start the install process.
10. Agree to the terms and follow the instructions in the setup.
Make sure to change the database name to the one you created earlier.
Your database server password is on the starting webpage when you click on Open Webpage in Mamp. Most cases the password should be root.
Fill out the username, email and password fields.
Click next. Then click Install and you done.
Enter your username and password.
You will be logged into the backend admin panel. You are ready to go.
