1. Log in to the Magento server as, or switch to, a user who has permissions to write to the Magento file system. One way to do this is to switch to the Magento file system owner. If you use the bash shell, you can also use the following syntax to switch to the Magento file system owner and enter the command at the same time: su -s /bin/bash -c If the Magento file system owner does not allow logins you can do the following sudo -u 2. To run Magento commands from any directory, add `/bin` to your system `PATH`. Because shells have differing syntax, consult a reference like unix.stackexchange.com. bash shell example for CentOS: export PATH=$PATH:/var/www/html/magento2/bin

You can also run the commands in the following ways:

• cd <your Magento install dir>/bin and run them as ./magento <command name>
• php <your Magento install dir>/bin/magento <command name>

<your Magento install dir> is a subdirectory of your web server's docroot. Need help locating the docroot? Click here.