How to Download, Install & Update Magento 2.0 Extension?
How to download Magento extension
From XAdapter.com
If you are downloading the Magento plugin after purchasing it from XAdapter shop, Download procedure will be similar to this article (Refer Chapter 1).
How to install Magento 2.0 Extension to your Magento website
This article gives you step-by-step instructions to install Magento 2.0 third party shipping extension.
Steps to Install the Extension:
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- Get the folder containing the extension from your seller.
- Move to app folder from Magento root. Create a folder code inside app.
- Copy the folder you got from your seller into the code folder.
- Login to your SSH. Navigate to bin folder from Magento root.
- In the terminal, Run
./magento module:status
. You can see the extension under the list of disabled modules.
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- Run
./magento module:enable module_name
to enable the extension.
- Run
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- Run
./magento module:status
to see the extension listed under enabled modules.
- Run
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- Run
./magento setup:upgrade
to upgrade the extension.
- Run
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- After this, Login as Magento admin and navigate to Stores > Configuration > Sales > Shipping Methods. There you can find newly installed Magento 2.0 extension.
Appendix
Commonly used helpful UNIX commands.
To Know your current working directory use pwd
.
To Know contents of your current working directory use ls
.
If your terminal is not pointing to root directory by default. You may need to append php
before your Magento command to get executed. Use this if default execution is not working.
In some cases you may need to manually change your var and pub folder accessibility after running setup:upgrade
. In such cases run chmod -R 777 var pub
from Magento root folder.
Comments (2)
Your post helped me a lot while installing extension, but before this i was installing magento using local host, https://www.cloudways.com/blog/how-to-install-magento-2-on-localhost/, this post helped me a lot and after installation. Your post helped me to install extensions and i downloaded slider revolution.
Hello alexmarcxyz,
Thank you for your valuable suggestions.
We will check it and update our article soon.
Regards,
Veeresh
Team XA