Magento 2 – GB / UK installation settings

Magento 2 can be quickly installed, deleted and reinstalled by the command line. This is very handy when migrating a website from Magento 1 to Magento 2, which can cause all sorts of database errors, until the migration tool runs without issue.

Magento 2 Installation Script

Your script to create a new Magento 2 install with admin user, will look very similar to the one below. This script is run from within the Magento directory folder (cd /fullserverpathtoMagento/www/magento2).

#install magento
php bin/magento setup:install --backend-frontname=ADMINLINK --session-save=files --db-host=localhost --db-name=DATABASENAME --db-user=DATABASEUSER --db-password=DATABASEPASSWORD --base-url=URL --admin-user=ADMINUSER --admin-password=ADMINPASSWORD --admin-email=EMAILADDRESS --admin-firstname=John --admin-lastname=Smith --language=en_GB --currency=GBP --timezone=Europe/London

However most examples use the default US settings.

 

GB / UK Magento installation settings

To set the GB localised language, currency and time settings, you’ll need to use the below.

--language=en_GB --currency=GBP --timezone=Europe/London

 

Language, Currency & Time zone help commands

You can run the following commands to display a list of all available values.

Installer argument	Command
Language	magento info:language:list
Currency	magento info:currency:list
Time zone	magento info:timezone:list

Hopefully that saves you time digging through the installation manual!