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Install Joomla, How To Install Joomla
Before you create your own custom joomla templates we need to review how you can install Joomla in two ways. The easiest way is to use Joomla Web installer using a web browser. Second and difficult method is to install Joomla manually. We will see both ways of installation in this article. However, we recommend that you use the semi-automatic GUI installation (using web browser) which is much easier and safe. For any kind of installation, first download the latest version of Joomla installation files from Joomla web site (http://www.joomla.org)   

Semi-Automatic Joomla Installation (Using web browser)

 

After you have downloaded the Joomla core pack of files from the Joomla web site, follow these steps to install joomla.

 

  1. Start the web browser and type the url where Joomla installation files are stored into the web browser. (e.g. http://localhost/joomla)
  2. You will see a screen with a list of languages. Select appropriate language of your choice. The default is English.
  3. Next, you will see the “Pre-Installation check” screen. In this step, the Joomla installer checks if your system meets the minimum requirements for successful Joomla installation. Please confirm that your system meets the pre-installation criteria. If any of the options displayed on the screen says no, rectify the problem first and then restart the installation.
  4. Next screen presents “Database Configuration” options.  Here you can select the database of your choice. Most probably, you would select MySQL database.
  5. Next screen offers “FTP Configuration” choices. You should enter the proper user name and password to proceed further. In case you are just using one computer for Joomla development, you can skip this step by clicking the NEXT button.
  6. The next screen is the Main configuration screen. This is an important screen since it contains three critical options –
    1. Site name – Enter a site name of your choice
    2. Administrator email address – Enter email address of the administrator. All important emails, error messages, warnings etc will be sent to this email address.
    3. Install sample data – Here you have a choice of using Joomla sample data, or data from previous installation of Joomla, or none. There may be some additional details depending upon your choice of sample data.
  7. This is the last screen of semi-automatic Joomla installation – The finish page. If you arrive at this page, then you have completed the Joomla installation successfully.

 

Manual Joomla Installation (from Command Line)

Normally, the Semi-automatic installation method works for most of the users. However, in some special cases, when Semi-automatic installation is not possible, you can still install Joomal using Manual mode of installation. This is not as user-friendly as the GUI method, but it is quite straight-forward. The actual steps are as below -

 

  1. Create and edit the configuration file - Create a copy of configuration.php-dist file in the the Joomla installation folder. Rename this copy as  configuration.php. Open this file in your favorite text editor, and change the following variables to their appropriate values

                                 I.      Var $sitename = ‘Your site name’

                               II.      Var $dbtype = ‘mysql’

                             III.      Var $host = ‘localhost’

                            IV.      Var $user = ‘database user name’

                              V.      Var $Password = ‘Database password’

                            VI.      Var $db = ‘Database name’

                          VII.      Var $dbtype = ‘mysql’

                        VIII.      Var $dbprefix = ‘your prefix’ <----- Default is ‘jos_’

                            IX.      Var $secret = ‘random alphanumeric characters’

                              X.      Var $ftp_host = ‘FTP Host name’

                            XI.      Var $ftp_port  = ‘FTP port number’

                          XII.      Var $ftp_user = ‘FTP user name’

                        XIII.      Var $ftp_pass = ‘FTP password’

                        XIV.      Var $ftp_root = ‘FTP root folder for client’

                          XV.      Var $ftp_enable = ‘1’

                        XVI.      Var $tmp_path = ‘/tmp’

                      XVII.      Var $log_path = ‘/var/logs’

                    XVIII.      Var $mailfrom = ‘Your email address’

                        XIX.      Var $fromname = ‘Your website name’

  1. Edit the SQL file – Open installation/sql/mysql/joomla.sql file. Replace all occurrences of “#_” with “jos_”
  2. Upload the files to web server – After you have finished the above changes, update the entire set of Joomla files to the web server.
  3. Create the database and import the joomla.sql data -  In this step, you can start  PHPMyAdmin or any other similar SQL control utility and create the database with the name that you entered in configuration.php file in step 1. Then import data from joomla.sql file into this newly created database.
  4. Create Primary Administrator user account - Create database administrator user account using the MySQL administration panel with user name as “admin” and password as “admin”. You can change this later if required.
  5. Import the sample_data.sql – This step is optional. You can use PHPMyAdmin to select the sample data and import it into the database.
  6. Delete the installation directory – This is the final but important step. You must delete the installation directory from the web site root directory.

 

As in the Semi-Automatic installation, if any error occurs in the manual installation, first perform the clean-up from the installation directory, correct the error, and start from step 1.
 
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