Magento 2 Cookbook

Magento 2 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform that has all the functionality to function from small to large online stores. It is preferred by developers and merchants due to its new architecture, which makes it possible to extend the functionalities with plugins, a lot of which are now created by the community. This merchant and developer guide is packed with recipes that cover all aspects of Magento 2. The recipes start with simple how-to’s then delve into more advanced topics as the book progresses. We start with the basics of setting up a Magento 2 project on Apache or Nginx. Next, you will learn about basics including system tools and caching to get your Magento 2 system ready for the real work. We move on to simple tasks such as managing your store and catalog configuration. When you are familiar with this, we cover more complex features such as module and extension development. Then we will jump to the final part: advanced Magento 2 extensions. By the end of this book, you’ll be competent with all the development phases of Magento 2 and its most common elements.

Magento 2 Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Installing Magento 2 on Apache and NGINX

Installing Magento 2 on Hypernode

Managing Magento 2 on Docker

Magento 2 System Tools

Introduction

Installing Magento 2 sample data via GUI

Installing Magento 2 sample data via the command line

Managing Magento 2 indexes via the command line

Managing Magento 2 cache via the command line

Managing Magento 2 backup via the command line

Managing Magento 2 set mode (MAGE_MODE)

Transferring your Magento 1 database to Magento 2

Enabling Performance in Magento 2

Introduction

Configuring Redis for backend cache

Configuring Memcached for session caching

Configuring Varnish as the Full Page Cache

Configuring Magento 2 with CloudFlare

Configuring optimized images in Magento 2

Configuring Magento 2 with HTTP/2

Configuring Magento 2 performance testing

Creating Catalogs and Categories

Introduction

Create a Root Catalog

Create subcategories

Manage attribute sets

Create products

Manage products in a catalog grid

Managing Your Store

Introduction

Creating shipping and tax rules

Managing customer groups

Configuring inventories

Configuring currency rates

Managing advanced pricing

Creating a Magento 2 Theme

Introduction

Creating a new theme

Changing a layout XML of a Magento 2 module

Adding CSS/JS to pages

Using Grunt for CSS changes

Adding static blocks to pages through layout XML

Adding static blocks to pages through widgets

Using a dynamic serving theme based on the client browser

Creating theme-specific translations

Creating Magento 2 Extensions – the Basics

Introduction

Initializing extension basics

Working with database models

Creating tables using setup scripts

Creating a web route and controller to display data

Creating system configuration fields

Creating a backend data grid

Creating a backend form to add/edit data

Creating Magento 2 Extensions – Advanced

Introduction

Using dependency injection to pass classes to your own class

Modifying functions with the use of plugins – Interception

Creating your own XML module configuration file

Creating your own product type

Working with service layers/contracts

Creating a Magento CLI command option

Index

Customer Reviews

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Installing NGINX

Throughout the following recipes, we will install the latest NGINX 1.9.x version on a SaaS platform hosted by DigitalOcean. The current NGINX version supports HTTP/2. This recipe will show you how to do it.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need to create an account at DigitalOcean https://www.digitalocean.com/. No other prerequisites are required.

Tip

For this cookbook, we will use a commercial SaaS hosting provider to get a production-ready environment. You can use any other solution out there to build on your preferred stack.

How to do it...

For the purpose of this recipe, let's assume that we need to create an NGINX hosting environment. The following steps will guide you through this:

Follow steps 1 until 6 in the previous recipe on how to install Apache.
Then, we will update our server to the latest updates available:
```
apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade
```
Next, we will install NGINX using the latest mainline version 1.9.x. Currently, Ubuntu doesn't include the latest NGINX 1.9.x mainline version. The latest change log can be viewed at http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES. Run the following command:
```
echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ wily nginx" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list
echo "deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ wily nginx" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list
```
Before we can install NGINX, we need to authorize the package by installing a signed key:
```
wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | apt-key add nginx_signing.key
```
Now, we will update our Ubuntu system using the latest NGINX packages:
```
apt-get update && apt-get -y install nginx
```
Once every NGINX package is installed, we can check whether everything is in order by running the following command on the shell:
```
nginx -v
```
The output of this command is as follows:
```
root@mage2cookbook:~# nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.9.6
```

If you have followed steps 1 to 6, you will be able to see if the web server is running. Go to your favorite browser and search using your yourdomain.com.

Tip

In the DigitalOcean control panel, you can create multiple snapshots at all times during the recipes. This will help you in restoring an old version or just going back in time, such as switching from Apache to NGINX or back.

How it works…

Let's recap and find out what we did throughout this recipe. In steps 1 through 5, we used the same Droplet to install NGINX. All steps are alike, but instead of installing Apache, we use NGINX instead. The only big difference is that it is an official NGINX repository.

There's more…

The current market share of NGINX is around 15% worldwide compared to 50% of Apache on active sites. Over the last couple of years, NGINX has grown and is commonly used as a stable web server for Magento hosting:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/03/19/march-2015-web-server-survey.html

If you want to check whether NGINX is running fine, use one of the following commands:

service nginx status
netstat -anp | grep nginx

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