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See one of the following sections:

Before you configure the Magento application

Before you begin, make sure that:

  1. Your system meets the requirements discussed in Magento System Requirements.
  2. You completed all prerequisite tasks discussed in Prerequisites.
  3. After you log in to the Magento server, switch to a user that has permissions to write to the Magento file system. One way to do this is discussed in switch to the Magento file system owner.

First steps

  1. Log in to the Magento server as, or switch to, the Magento file system owner.
  2. Change to the following directory:
    cd <your Magento install dir>/bin
    Examples:
    • Ubuntu: cd /var/www/magento2/bin
    • CentOS: cd /var/www/html/magento2/bin

You can run the commands in any of the following ways:

  • php magento <command>
  • magento <command>

Command summary

The following table summarizes the available commands. Commands are shown in summary form only; for more information about a command, click the link in the Command column.

Before you run any of these commands, you must either install the Magento application or enable some modules.
Command Description
magento setup:cache:{enable|disable|clean|flush|status}

Manages the cache
magento setup:indexer:{status|show-mode|set-mode|reindex|info}

Manages the indexers
magento cron:run

Runs Magento cron jobs
magento setup:di:compile-multi-tenant

Use only if you have multiple independent Magento applications (in other words, one common Magento code base but more than one independent instance of the Magento application).

Compiles all non-existent proxies and factories; and pre-compiles class definitions, inheritance information, and plugin definitions for multiple stores or websites.
magento setup:di:compile

Use if you have one instance of the Magento application.

Compiles all non-existent proxies and factories; and pre-compiles class definitions, inheritance information, and plugin definitions for one store and website.
magento info:dependencies:{show-modules|show-modules-circular|show-framework}e

Module dependencies, circular dependencies, and Magento framework dependencies.
magento i18n:{collect-phrases|pack}

Creates a translation dictionary or a translation package
magento setup:static-content:deploy

Deploys static view files
magento dev:source-theme:deploy

Creates CSS from LESS
magento dev:tests:run

Runs automated tests
magento dev:xml:convert

Update your layout XML files to match the new Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) stylesheet
magento setup:perf:generate-fixtures

Generate data to use for performance testing.
magento sampledata:install

Installs optional Magento sample data after you install the Magento application.

For more details about Magento sample data, see Optional Magento sample data.

Help commands

To display a complete list of commands, enter:

magento --list

To get help for a particular command, enter:

magento --help <command>

For example,

magento --help setup:install
magento --help cache:enable

Common arguments

The following arguments are common to all commands. These commands can be run either before or after the Magento software is installed:

Long version Short version Meaning
--help -h Get help for any command. For example, ./magento help setup:install or ./magento help setup:config:set.
--quiet -q Quiet mode; no output.
--no-interaction -n No interactive questions.
--verbose=1|2|3 -v|vv|vvv Verbosity level. For example, --verbose=3 or -vvv displays debug verbosity, which is the most verbose output. Default is --verbose=1 or -v.
--version -V Display this application version
--ansi n/a Force ANSI output
--no-ansi n/a Disable ANSI output

Commands

The following sections discuss the available commands.