Magento 2 – Sample Data Installed but Not Showing

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I have just installed Magento 2. I think I have installed the sample data. I did php bin/magento sampledata:deploy , php bin/magento setup:upgrade and then php bin/magento setup:di:compile however the sample data isn't showing on my magento site. Why isn't it showing?

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I had the same issue. thx to @Steve-johnson for pointing me to bin/magento module:status where I was not able to see the presence of the Modules '*SampleData'.

I was not able to see sample data after the following command:

$ ./bin/magento sampledata:deploy

Since my terminal was small I had to scroll up to read the following error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 88614883 bytes) in Users/.../public_html/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Util/RemoteFilesystem.php on line 247

It seemed that the sample data wasn't installed because of lack of memory.

So... I had to increase the memory to be able to install the sample data.

$ php -dmemory_limit=1024M ./bin/magento sampledata:deploy

After that and $ php bin/magento setup:upgrade I notice the sample data.

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Magento – Magento Sample Data on already installed magento

It is possible to change the database that Magento uses after it has been installed. So the steps for your scenario would be:

install sample data into a separate database
copy the product images into your Magento installation
edit app/etc/local.xml and change the database to the one with the sample data present
delete var/cache
opening the site in the browser should now trigger the installation routine and you will end up with a store including the demo data

Uninstalling the sample data is not easily doable. You can delete all products which gets you some of the way there. However overall I would suggest keeping the store with the sample data separate. If you don't mind the product images from the demo store clogging up your system you can reverse step 3. and then deleting the cache to get back to your original database.

Magento 2 – Fix Allowed Memory Size Error on Sample Data Deployment

There are 2 solution for that:

Option 1 - Permanent Solution

change php.ini to increase memory_limit value on global level

memory_limit = 768M

Or You can also change in .htaccess file.

php_value memory_limit 768M
php_value max_execution_time 18000

Option 2 - Temporary Solution

quick solution add memory size in the command :

php -dmemory_limit=768M php bin/magento sampledata:deploy

change 768M to what you want

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Magento – Magento Sample Data on already installed magento

Magento 2 – Fix Allowed Memory Size Error on Sample Data Deployment

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