You are among the 240,000 merchants worldwide who put their trust in our eCommerce software. We have gathered some information to help you get started with your installation.
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Consult the following table for getting started with installing Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source.
User needs | Description | High-level installation and upgrade steps | Get started link |
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Integrator, packager |
Wants full control over all components installed, has access to the application server, highly technical, might repackage Magento Open Source with other components. |
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Contributing developer |
Contributes to the Magento Open Source codebase, files bugs, and customizes the application. Highly technical, has their own development server, understands Composer and GitHub. You cannot use the application in a production environment. You must upgrade using Composer and Git commands. |
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Use the links on the left side of the page to navigate topics in each part of the installation.
UNIX systems require root
privileges to install and configure software like a web server, PHP. If you need to install this software, make sure you have root
access.
Do not install the application in the web server docroot as the root
user because the web server might not be able to interact with those files.
You need root
privileges to create the file system owner and add that owner to the web server’s group. You use the file system owner to run bin/magento
commands from the command line and to set up cron jobs, which schedule tasks for you.