This article is not meant to replace the module author’s instructions; however, it is a handy supplement when things go wrong.

We use these same steps when working with our customers, and 99.9% of the time this process works without issue.

First, it is important to note that we are doing a manual module install from the command line [CLI] using our SSH client, Putty, as per our stack instructions.

Second, these instructions assume you have already SFTP’d the module to the proper directory path on Magento as per the author’s instructions.

Next we follow these set of commands:

cd /var/www/magento

sudo php bin/magento maintenance:enable
sudo php bin/magento cache:flush
sudo php bin/magento cache:disable
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/magento

sudo php bin/magento setup:upgrade
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/magento
sudo php bin/magento setup:di:compile
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/magento

sudo php bin/magento cache:enable
sudo php bin/magento maintenance:disable

and if you get an error on the homepage…

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/magento

After these steps are completed, you can log into the Magento admin console, and go to the Magento Component Manager to verify installation, or you can run this from the command line and check the status of the module:

sudo php bin/magento module:status

Tip! Make sure you are installing a module for the correct version of Magento! Many times customers report issues to us only to later discover that they were attempting to install an M1 module on M2.

Good to go!

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