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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

Installing Magento in Amazon EC2


In this section, we will set up a server in Amazon from scratch. The server will be ready for Magento with all the requirements and dependencies installed, so you can manage your first Magento development server.

Setting up the Amazon AWS account

The first step is setting up your Amazon AWS account to create the server instance in Amazon EC2.

In order to do this, you should follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Amazon AWS homepage at https://aws.amazon.com/. It will look something like this:

  2. Click on Create an AWS Account.

  3. Add your e-mail or phone number and select I am a new user.:

  4. Click on Sign in using our secure server.

  5. Complete the form with your personal information and click on Create account:

Creating the Amazon EC2 instance

After verifying the Amazon AWS account, you can create your first Amazon EC2 instance. Instances are virtual servers that can run web applications. Let's go through the steps to create the Amazon EC2 instance:

  1. Go to the Amazon EC2 landing...