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To add an admin user to a Magento 2 site from the command line, SSH to the server and change to the root directory of the Magento 2 install. Then run this command:

On a server with Plesk a few notes:

• It’s best to run this command as the user that owns the website subscription.
• You may need to set the path to the correct PHP version with “export PATH=/opt/plesk/php/7.0/bin/php:$PATH”.
• If you get “PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of xxxxxxx bytes exhausted” then edit the php.ini file for the correct PHP version and increase the “memory_limit” setting.

Suppose you have a Magento Commerce store at:

http://acme.com/store

but you want to change the URL to:

http://acme.com/catalog

There are plenty of articles that give the basics like:

https://docs.nexcess.net/article/how-to-change-magento-base-urls.html

Basically the steps are:

1. Login to admin, go to Configuration -> Web and change the secure and insecure urls.

2. Move the store/ folder to catalog/

3. Clear cache and sessions folders with

4. Add a rewrite rule in your .htaccess to send traffic from the old path to the new path:

So far so good but we found several additional steps that might be needed. If compilation is turned on then you may need to do:

Next if you have APC installed in PHP then you may need to restart the web server to clear the APC cache with something like:

If you have memcached configured as the cache backend then you’ll also need to restart memcached:

Let us know if the comments if you find any other steps that are needed to successfully move magento to a new path.

You can view a list of patches that have been applied to a Magento site with:

You’ll get something like this:

Previously we posted an article on how to determine Magento version by checking the app/Mage.php file:

Determine Magento Commerce Version

Here’s another technique that I like using PHP command line:

Credit for this goes to euperia.com.