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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By : Gabriel Guarino
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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By: Gabriel Guarino

Overview of this book

Do you have a good product to sell but need your start-up to sell it to your potential customers the right way? Were you unhappy with what Magento 1 had to offer and are looking forward to trying out what Magento 2 provides? If either of these questions ring a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by getting a general understanding of what Magento is, why and how you should use it, and whether it is possible and feasible to migrate from an old web store to Magento 2. We'll introduce you to the main e-commerce concepts and basic features and let you play with them, so you can get a taste of how catalog and content management works. Following on from that, we'll show you how to tune your store up. You will learn how to get web store offers up and running, how to offer various discounts in the catalog, how to let the customers reduce the total price in the shopping cart by combining different products, and how to generate coupon codes that customers can use. Finally, we'll get serious and turn your plaything into a real web store, teaching you how to run it for real.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Magento 2 Beginners Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Local installation in your computer


In this section, we will review the general process to set up Magento with sample data in your local computer. In the next two sections, we will review the process of choosing the right hosting provider and set up a server to install Magento from scratch.

Taking that into consideration, we will assume that you have PHP 7 and MySQL running in your local machine and all the dependencies listed in the previous section as well.

Besides that, you should have your virtual host for the local instance already created (that is, http://magento2-playground.dev), the hosts file with the new entry for the local Magento instance (127.0.0.1 magento2-playground.dev), and an empty database.