Build System Setup

First, check if Composer is already installed:

In a command prompt, enter any of the following commands:

• composer --help
• composer list --help

If command help displays, Composer is already installed.

If an error displays, use the following steps to install Composer.

To install Composer:

1. Change to or create an empty directory on your Magento server.

2. Enter the following commands:

   curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
   mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
   

   For additional installation options, see the Composer installation documentation.

Install PHP

To install PHP, see one of the following topics:

• CentOS
• Ubuntu

Set up the build system

To set up the build system:

1. Log in to the build system as, or switch to, the Magento file system owner.

2. Retrieve the Magento code from source control.

   If you use Git, use the following command:

   git clone [-b <branch name>] <repository URL>
   

3. Change to the Magento root directory and enter:

   composer install
   

4. Wait for Magento dependencies to update.

5. Set ownership:

   chown -R <magento file system owner name>:<web server user name> .
   

   For example,

   chown -R magento_user:apache .
   

6. If you use Git, open .gitignore in a text editor.

7. Start each of the following lines with a # character to comment them out:

   # app/etc/config.php
   # pub/media/*
   # generated/*
   # pub/media/*.*
   # pub/media/wysiwyg/*
   # pub/static/*
   

8. Save your changes to .gitignore and exit the text editor.

9. If you use Git, use the following commands to commit the change:

   git add .gitignore && git commit -m "Modify .gitignore for build and production"
   

   See the .gitignore reference for more information.

Related topics

• Set up your development systems
• Set up your production system