Install Joomla, How To Install Joomla

Posted on 14. Nov, 2007 by admin in Joomla Tutorials.

Joomla is one of the most popularly used Content Management System that offers several features to help build a website. If you are planning to create a dynamic and powerful website, Joomla has the tools that can help make all your plans happen. What’s more, it is an open source program so it is totally free.

Pre-requisites

Before using Joomla, a quick check should be done to make sure your web host meets the requirements of the program. Your hosting provider should be able to support PHP and MySQL. A MySQL database should be created prior to installing Joomla.

 

Joomla can be downloaded from this site. Make sure to choose the one with filename Joomla_1.x.x-Stable-Full_Package. As of this writing, the latest stable Joomla version is 1.0.13. The next step is to extract the files on to your computer since the downloaded file is compressed. All of the extracted files should then be uploaded to the public_html folder of your website so you can install Joomla for your own domain. Another way is to upload the downloaded compressed file to your server and extract it from there.

 

Once all the above steps are done, you are now ready to install Joomla!

 

Installation

1.      To start, enter the URL of the Joomla index page which is (yourdomain)/index.php, where (yourdomain) is the domain where you uploaded the Joomla files. The site should show something like the pages below.

 

 

In cases when the actual settings are different from the recommended settings, you may choose to check your hosting provider’s settings or you may also just choose to ignore them. You should, however, allow access or permission to the listed directories and files. Once permissions are set, click Next on top of the window.

 

2.      The GNU/GPL License page will come up. Click Next.

3.      Enter your MySQL database information. Enter your hostname, your username and password for your MySQL database, and the name of your database. All of which can be retrieved from your hosting provider. There is no need to change the last field and the checkboxes.

4.      Enter your site name.

 

5.      Enter your domain name and the path to the domain on the server. The email address you enter here will be used by the Joomla program to contact you regarding updates on your site. The password should be something that you will easily remember.

 

6.      Congratulations! Joomla is now installed. The login details for the administrator are shown in the next screen.

 

7.      To finalize the installation, delete the “installation” directory from the location where you extracted all the Joomla files earlier. You will now be able to access your Joomla-powered site through (yourdomain)/index.php.

 

 

 

Install Joomla, How To Install Joomla

Posted on 14. Nov, 2007 by admin in Blog.

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.