Magento 2 – Random collection of everyday SSH commands

Since working with Magento 2 keeps coming back in places, that you have already had, I just want everyday SSH in this post- / CLI – Collect commands and post a brief description of each. I will add a new command every now and then, change or delete one, depending on.

The order came about by chance:

Deactivate or deactivate Debug.log. activate

In the standard, Magento generates 2 a file, which stores a lot of information from ongoing operations, so that developers always have the opportunity to find troubleshooting tips there. It has to be mentioned, however, that in debug.log -in contrast to exception.log and system.log- In addition to errors, correct processes are also saved. This leads to, that the file grows very quickly and thus takes up LOTS of storage space.

As soon as you have completed the development phase or currently have no use for this information, one should deactivate the debug.log. This happens - like so much with M2- by a command via SSH:

bin/magento setup:config:set --enable-debug-logging=false

If you want to activate the logging again later, this happens through:

bin/magento setup:config:set --enable-debug-logging=true

It can't hurt to clear the cache afterwards:

bin/magento cache:flush

Put Magento into live mode after development

Magento 2 has three different modes: development, default, production. With the following command you can see which mode the system is currently in:

bin/magento deploy:mode:show

To now in the Live- / Switch to production mode, it is best to use the following command

bin/magento deploy:mode:set production

Magento will then switch to maintenance mode and (in a nutshell) do anything, what is necessary, to switch to live mode. This sometimes takes a few minutes and then it becomes (normally) the maintenance mode is also automatically deactivated again and ….. one is live!

And then switch to development mode again

For the sake of completeness, here are the commands for the development mode and everything around it:

First you have to delete the contents of two directories:

rm -rf <magento_root>/generated/metadata/* <magento_root>/generated/code/*

Then change the mode:

bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

Magento 2 Clear cache via SSH

Only a moment – even if I already mentioned it above:

php bin/magento cache:clean

And the index at Magento 2 delete

That too:

php bin/magento indexer:reindex

Magento 2 Create cron jobs via SSH

Magento 2 In contrast to M1, it needs a functioning cron job, to run smoothly. This can be easily created in the standard version by command:

bin/magento cron:install