Hi! When you create a droplet, you can select the one click Magento image. Take a look at How To Use the Magento One-Click Install Image for more info on how to use it.

To install the sample data, log in to your droplet as root and download the sample data archive:

mkdir ~/magento_sample_data
cd ~/magento_sample_data
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.9.0.0/magento-sample-data-1.9.0.0.tar.bz2

Then, extract it and copy the files to the magento instance:

tar xjvf magento-sample-data-1.9.0.0.tar.bz2
cd magento-sample-data-1.9.0.0
cp -r media/* /var/www/html/magento/media/
cp -r skin/* /var/www/html/magento/skin/

Finally, you’ll need to import the mysql dump that’s provided with the sample data. However, you will first need to delete the existing database as the sample data cannot be installed on an existing setup.

mysql -Bse 'drop database magento;'
mysql -Bse 'create database magento;'
mysql magento < magento_sample_data_for_1.9.0.0.sql

To clean up, simply delete the magentosampledata directory:

rm -r ~/magento_sample_data

You can now browse to your droplet’s IP address to access the demo magento store.

Setting File and Directory Ownership and Privileges

cd /var/www/html/magento
chown -R www-data .
find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;