How to install and configure Magento with Nginx Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Magento:

Magento is the most popular content management system for e-commerce websites. It is used by small businesses and large enterprise companies alike, and can be enhanced by thousands of extensions and themes. Magento uses the MySQL database system, the PHP programming language, and parts of the Zend Framework.

Requirement: 

We required a dedicated server atleast 2GB of Ram with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed LAMP Stack.

1- Nginx

root@Server16:~# apt install nginx

2- PHP

root@Server16:~# apt install php7.0-fpm

Other required PHP extensions:

root@Server16:~# apt-get install php7.0-mysql php7.0-zip php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-intl php-pear php-imagick php7.0-imap php7.0-mcrypt php-memcache  php7.0-pspell   php7.0-recode php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-tidy php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-xsl php7.0-mbstring php-gettext php7.0-soap

3- MySQL

root@Server16:~# apt install mysql-server

Step 1: Download and extract Magento

Download Magento from below mentioned URL:

root@Server16:~# wget https://github.com/OpenMage/magento-mirror/archive/magento-1.9.zip

Use command below to extract zip file

root@Server16:~# unzip -d /var/www/html/ magento-1.9.zip

Where  

unzip                                        This is a command

-d                                              Extract file into specific directory 

/var/www/html                       Path where Zip will be extract 

Now rename the folder with a simple name using the command below:

root@Server16:~# mv /var/www/html/magento-mirror-magento-1.9/ /var/www/html/magento

Change Permission using command below:

root@Server16:~# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/magento

Step 2: Create Server Blocks (Virtual Host) and enable it.

Let's configure Nginx Server block using command below:

root@Server16:~# vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/magento.conf

And add the syntax below:

# Default server configuration
#
server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        # SSL configuration
        #
        # listen 443 ssl default_server;
        # listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
        #
        # Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
        # See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
        #
        # Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
        # See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
        #
        # Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
        # Don't use them in a production server!
        #
        # include snippets/snakeoil.conf;

        root /var/www/html/magento;

        # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
        index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name magento.lan;

        location / {
                # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
 location ~ .php/ {
        rewrite ^(.*.php)/ $1 last;
        }


        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
        #
        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        #
        #       # With php7.0-cgi alone:
        #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        #       # With php7.0-fpm:
                fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        }

        # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }
}

Save and Exit from file

Now Create a link of Server blocks using command below:

root@Server16:~# ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/magento.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/magento.conf

Check Nginx configuration and restart service:

root@Server16:~# nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

Restart Nginx Using command below

root@Server16:~# systemctl restart nginx.service

Step 3: Create a database and assign permission:

Let's Create a database and assign permission:

Create Database

mysql> create database magento;

Create User

mysql> create user magento@localhost identified by 'magento';

Assign Perrmission

mysql> grant all privileges on magento.* to magento@'localhost' identified by 'magento';

Reload permisson

mysql> flush privileges;

Step 4: Finish Magento Installation 

Open browser  hit domain name and follow the instruction to finish installation process.

http://magento.lan/index.php/install/

Accept the license agreement

Select Location, TimeZone and Default Currency type

Fill Database Configuration detail, Admin web access URL and session store options

Fill Magento Admin login access details:

All set, after completing all the steps you will get the window like below.

Magento has been installed successfully, Now you can start working with Admin panel using link below

http://magento.lan/index.php/admin/

And you Frontend will be looking like this 

!!!That's ALL!!!!