Steps to migrate Magento from one server to AWS

 

References:

 https://www.islbd.com/resources/web-design-and-development/how-to-move-magento-from-one-server-to-another

https://medium.com/@ravinandan.db/how-to-use-aws-free-tier-to-deploy-magento2-for-learning-purpose-32831531b18b

To access using ssh client

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html

Steps to setup Netbeans IDE in Ubuntu 20.04

 1)Install JDK

                    sudo apt install default-jdk

2)Install Netbeans

                    sudo snap install netbeans --classic

                

Development helper modules

 https://github.com/w3bdesign/laravel-vue         

//guest checkout using payment gateway(stripe)

https://github.com/MostafaHamedAbdelmasoud/Instashop-multi-vendors-ecommerce

https://github.com/nishangupta/Mart

How to host Laravel in Digital Ocean

Prerequisites:

1) Create a Digital Ocean Account

2) ssh set up on your local computer

Steps:

1) Create a Droplet

- Using one click install LAMP .

- select standard → $5/month plan → enter ssh keys → enter host name → create droplet button

2) hit ip on the browser to see the site

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To access the site from local machine:

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1) In a new terminal login as the new user
 

         $ ssh root@IP_ADDRESS

2) Note mysql password from the location mentioned during one click installation
              
3) Generate ssh for the server using command
  

                 $ ssh-keygen 

 To see the generated key enter, 
 

                 $ cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub //to display the key 

 4)Add remote server ssh key to github→settings→ssh key

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To set up DB

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		$ mysql -u root -p;
        $ SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;
		$ ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY  'password';                 //passwort from ./root/digital ocean folder

		$ FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
to check:
		$ SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;
		$ create database new_db
		$ use new_db
        $ source path/to/uploaded/sqlfile //to import the uploaded db to mysql
		$ exit //mysql
		$ sudo service mysql restart

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To set up Project

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1) git clone the folder to var/www directory

2) cd /var/www

 	        git clone https://github.com/ammezie/laravel-deploy-demo.git
3) install composer
4) run composer install
5) set up all the missing extensions 

sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-xml

	sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-mbstring
one by one like above or in one go as shown below:
	        sudo apt install openssl php7.2-common php7.2-curl php7.2-json php7.2-
	        mbstring php7.2-mysql php7.2-xml php7.2-zip

6) cd laravel-deploy-demo

              
	        composer install

7) For environment variables

            cp .env.example .env

8)  generate an app key using
              php artisan key:generate

9) open .env
                nano .env
Make the following changes into it

Since we are on production, we set APP_DEBUG to false. Also, we set APP_URL to our domain name or server IP address (if no domain name has been set up). Remember to update YOUR_DATABASE_USERNAME and YOUR_DATABASE_PASSWORD


	APP_NAME=laravel-deploy-demo
	APP_ENV=production
	APP_DEBUG=false
	APP_URL=http://DOMAIN_NAME_OR_IP_ADDRESS

	DB_CONNECTION=mysql
	DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
	DB_PORT=3306
	DB_DATABASE=laravel-deploy-demo
	DB_USERNAME=YOUR_DATABASE_USERNAME
	DB_PASSWORD=YOUR_DATABASE_PASSWORD
  

10) Grand permissions using:

            $ sudo chown -R www-data: storage
            $ sudo chmod -R 755 storage

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To take the Project Live

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17) Finally we need to point our server to the Laravel project public folder. We need to edit our Apache config

            nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

There are two lines in this config file that we need to updated

            DocumentRoot /var/www
            <Directory /var/www>

We need to change them to point the public folder in our project public folder

            DocumentRoot /var/www/project/public
            <Directory /var/www/project/public>

Also we need to add the following two lines inside of that same Directory tag

            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteBase /var/www/project/public

Once that’s finished and saved enter

		a2enmod rewrite

we need to restart Apache

                $ sudo service apache2 restart

In case of error:

AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

		$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

add to the end of file 

        	          ServerName 64.xxx.xx.xxx 

 	          sudo systemctl restart apache2

References:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-18-04

https://scotch.io/tutorials/deploying-laravel-to-digitalocean

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Additional things you may do:

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1)set up phpmyadmin

2) login to the server as non root user with admin prevelege for security.

from local computer enter the command to access server:

        		
		ssh root@IP_ADDRESS

then create a new user using command

         		
		adduser new_user

3) To give new user sabi admin preveleges

                usermod -aG sudo new_user

4)copy public key to your new server

      
		 cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub   //run local to get public key

5) In the server give the command as 
        
		 su -user


6) we need to create a new directory called .ssh and restrict its permission:

        	 mkdir ~/.ssh
        	 chmod 700 ~/.ssh 
 7) Within the .ssh directory, create a new file called authorized_keys:
                
		touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

8)open the file using cmd
                  
		vim ~/.ssh/authorized_keys //paste ssh copied from local here
9) esc shift :wq + enter

10) restrict permissions of authorised file using the command:
                
		    chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys //restrict permission
          exit //return to root



10) hit ip address
                

How to host Laravel with Mysql DB for free using Heroku

 

1)After building your laravel project locally,  create a  new file 'Procfile'

using the command:

        echo "web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public/" > Procfile

1) push all the files to github

2) Install Heroku on cli

            snap install –classic heroku

3) login to the website using

            username  

            pwd

                    heroku login

4) create app using the command 

         heroku create <myappname> 

        //https://montahacouture.herokuapp.com


5)      heroku buildpacks:set heroku/php

//Changes to be made in the laravel app, before pushing to heroku

6) To get the app key

         run php artisan key:generate --show

7) set it to the config using the command 

 heroku config:set APP_KEY=base64:tD5sha+/lhd11B5b0dd+apImCVp7dETAAhvoFbn6K9M=

8) We need to set the error log to Heroku error log.

    To do that, go to config/app.php and set "log"=>"errorlog".

9)To host on heroku run

        git push heroku master --app <myappname> 

Note: the part is --app <myappname> only necessary if you have more than one app hosted on Heroku.

6) to launch the app from command line

        heroku open --app <myappname>

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1) Go to resources , use Add ons : select

                Cleardb with ignite free

 or using the command line

        heroku addons:create cleardb:ignite

2)To get the cleardb url run the command

         heroku config | grep CLEARDB

the resulting url  is of the form

DATABASE_URL='mysql://username:password@hostname/database_name?reconnect=true

9)set config vars using the command

heroku config:set DATABASE_URL='mysql://username:password@hostname/database_name?reconnect=true'

10) export data from the local DB. 

11)import it to heroku using the command

mysql -uYOUR_USERNAME -p YOUR_DATABASE --host=YOUR_HOST < path/local/export/db_dumps/db_2019-09-26.sql

password:  YOUR_PASSWORD

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Other Changes made for pushing to Heroku:

 app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php //added if(config('app.env') === 'production') {\URL::forceScheme('https'); }

 modified:   config/app.php //’log => ‘errorlog’

deleted vendor folder

modified:   config/database.php 

Now go to your config/database.php and comment as shown below and then copy the following.

// ‘mysql’ => [
// ‘driver’ => ‘mysql’,
// ‘host’ => env(‘DB_HOST’, ‘127.0.0.1’),
// ‘port’ => env(‘DB_PORT’, ‘3306’),
// ‘database’ => env(‘DB_DATABASE’, ‘forge’),
// ‘username’ => env(‘DB_USERNAME’, ‘forge’),
// ‘password’ => env(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘’),
// ‘unix_socket’ => env(‘DB_SOCKET’, ‘’),
// ‘charset’ => ‘utf8mb4’,
// ‘collation’ => ‘utf8mb4_unicode_ci’,
// ‘prefix’ => ‘’,
// ‘strict’ => false,
// ‘engine’ => null,
// ],
‘mysql’ => [
‘driver’ => ‘mysql’,
‘host’ => ‘db4free.net’,
‘port’ => ‘3306’,
‘database’ => dbname,
‘username’ => dbusername,
‘password’ =>dbpassword,
‘charset’ => ‘utf8mb4’,
‘collation’ => ‘utf8mb4_unicode_ci’,
‘prefix’ => ‘’,
‘strict’ => false,
‘engine’ => null,
‘modes’=>[
‘ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY’,
‘STRICT_TRANS_TABLES’,
‘NO_ZERO_IN_DATE’,
‘NO_ZERO_DATE’,
‘ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO’,
‘NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION’,
],

],

There you have finished laravel hosting for free!!! 

References:

1)  https://dev.to/nedsoft/how-to-host-a-laravel-app-with-mysql-database-on-heroku-52np

2) https://medium.com/@segunemma2003/how-to-deploy-laravel-to-heroku-with-mysql-database-3b51bc50d95f

General Steps to follow While downloading project from GitHub

 1) Run git clone or  download zip

//if you don't find any files, then the clone is in a different branch

        To see all the branches:

                git branch -a

        To go to that branch

                git checkout branchName

2) Run composer install

3) cp .env.example .env

4) php artisan key:generate

5) php artisan migrate

//php artisan migrate --seed

6) php artisan serve

You will see your website up and running in localhost:8000

How to create Virtual Host for Windows

 Virtual Host In windows can be created in just two steps:

Prerequisite: You have a project folder up and running inside var/www/html

1) C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

    add ip address followed by host name(folder name: var/www/html/projectname.com)

 127.0.0.1  example.com

2)C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

 

remove # and edit the contents for each one

References:

https://medium.com/@ajtech.mubasheer/configure-a-virtual-host-for-laravel-project-in-xampp-for-windows-10-d3f0068e7e1b

How to switch between php versions

 Install/upgrade php switch between php versions

sudo a2dismod php8.0

systemctl restart apache2

sudo a2enmod php7.4

systemctl restart apache2

$ sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.4

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if a2dismod php8.2 throws  error : php8.2 module cannot be found

run below command to install it

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php8.2

Then a2dismod php8.2 will work  

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References:

https://www.cloudbooklet.com/how-to-upgrade-php-version-to-php-8-0-on-ubuntu/  

laravel barcode pos software

 https://laravelarticle.com/laravel-barcode-tutorial

composer require milon/barcode:^5.0 

(//ly dompdf to 0.8.5)

https://github.com/abedputra/Inventory-Stock-With-Scanner

https://www.zebra.com/us/en/support-downloads/printers.html

Steps to deploy to Magento

 1. Take DB backup of integration and dev. Download those backup to your laptop.
2. Upload the dev DB backup to integration server. (upload to /tmp/ location as if has write permission.)
3. Git Clone integration server in your laptop.
4. Paste the app/code folder of dev into the cloned integration code.
5. Commit and push to the integration server.
6. Truncate the integration DB.
7. Import the dev DB backup (which is uploaded to /tmp/) into the integration database.

 To fix cron check

https://meetanshi.com/blog/set-cron-in-magento-2/ 

https://support.magento.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033099451

 

To learn about different products

https://www.customerparadigm.com/six-types-of-magento-product-types/

Convert a bootable USB to normal

 Search 'Discs' In Ubuntu ,from applications, to get the name of the partition

sudo wipefs --all /dev/sdb

Now, the filesystem has been wiped and the flash drive is completely clean. You can check that with: 

 

sudo fdisk -l

ou should see that the USB flash device has no partition. You need to create one. 

Create the new partition using the command line

sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb

 

Format the USB drive with FAT

sudo mkfs.vfat -n 'ALU' /dev/sdb1 

How to convert Magento Enterprise to Magento Community Edition

https://blog.magepsycho.com/migrate-downgrade-magento-2-from-enterprise-to-community-edition/

Aimeos for Ecommerce

Aimeos is a laravel ecommerce package. To Learn about their setup and installation,

 https://github.com/aimeos/aimeos-laravel#setup

 https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/authentication#included-authenticating

https://laravel-vuejs.com/aimeos-laravel-e-commerce-online-shops-b2b-and-gigacommerce/

 

https://websolutionstuff.com/post/how-to-generate-barcode-in-laravel

Useful SQL queries to query the DB

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Command to get collation for each columns of a table

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SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA 
    , TABLE_NAME 
    , COLUMN_NAME 
    , COLLATION_NAME 
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 't_name';

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 Display table with a particular column name
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SELECT
	*
FROM
	information_schema.columns
WHERE
	column_name = 'column_name';

OR

SELECT
	*
FROM
	information_schema.columns
WHERE
	column_name LIKE '%column_name%';

Websites that are helpful

Barcode Generator 

http://www.barcode-generator.org/#homeFAQ

study vuejs

 https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-portfolio-with-vuejs/

 To learn about Magento Module develpment

                https://mage2gen.com/

                https://www.koolreport.com

Laravel deployment to hostinger shared hosting

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHAdDFtgYo0

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For Website Themes
    - https://www.famethemes.com/themes/screenr/
    - bootswatch.com
    - softtheme.com-laravel templates
 

For Pictures

    unsplash.com

For Logo

    logomakr.com

                

Steps to create a module in Magento2

 1- Create a namespace folder inside app/code directory

    eg:- app/code/RB

2- Create a Module folder inside that namespace folder

    eg:- app/code/RB/Vendor

3- Create a registration.php file

<?php
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(
	\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE,
	'RB_Vendor',
	__DIR__
);

 

 eg:-  app/code/RB/Vendor/registration.php and add the following contents

4- Create etc/module.xml file

eg:-  app/code/RB/Vendor/etc/module.xml and add the following contents

        <?xml version="1.0"?>

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd">
    <module name="RB_Vendor" setup_version="1.0.0">
    </module>
</config>

5-Enable the module using the following command

        php bin/magento module:enable RB_Vendor

                    (or)


 6. To add the modules manually directly enter/write in the module in the below file

          app/etc/config.php as 'RB_Vendor' => 1, 

7. Check the module status using the command:     

            php bin/magento module:status 

8. Execute SUDO chmod -R 777 . , php bin/magento setup:upgrade, php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f in order

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Create a Route

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1) To add route, it is necessary to create routes.xml file

app/code/RB/Vendor/etc/frontend/routes.xml

2)Inside RB/Vendor/etc folder, there will be two folders

        i) frontend

        ii) adminhtml

since this is a frontend route, we added it in frontend/ folder else we need to add it to adminhtml/ folder


3)The content would be       


<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/etc/routes.xsd">
    <router id="standard">
        <route frontName="rb_vendor" id="rb_vendor">
            <module name="RB_Vendor"/>
        </route>
    </router>
</config>

4)  Route’s in magento are divided into 3 parts: Route frontname, controller and action as following example:

http://magento2.com/index.php/rb_vendor/controller/action

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               Create Controller 

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1) In the folder app/code/RB/Vendor/Controller/Index/Test.php

where 'Test'is the class name  

 <?php
namespace RB\Vendor\Controller\Index;

class Test extends \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action
{
	protected $_pageFactory;

	public function __construct(
		\Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context $context,
		\Magento\Framework\View\Result\PageFactory $pageFactory)
	{
		$this->_pageFactory = $pageFactory;
		return parent::__construct($context);
	}

	public function execute()
	{
		echo "Hello World";
		exit;
	}
}

 http://magento2.com/index.php/rb_vendor/Index/Test