Installing Joomla!

Written by openappdotorg

May 26th, 2006

The lattest version of Joomla! is version 1.0.8, you can also find the patches and earlier versions also. Download the zip package from here and uzip it on your localhost directory, that is /var/www/html/MyJoomla. Now open the web browser and write http://localhost/MyJoomla in the address bar, this will lead you to the browser installation of Joomla!

It will check the pre-installation requirements and will display the results there. The main thing to notice here that you have to set the permission of configuration file to be writable. You can skip this step as the configuration script will be given to you latter in the installation and that you can paste in the config.php file and save, but the main thing is to set the permissions of directories and files to be writable by Joomla! Onc you have given the permissions then proceed further.

Now you have to configure MySQL for your Joomla!

Hostname: Generally it is localhost
MySQL Username: Give the MySQL username e.g. root
MySQL Password: Give the password that you have set for the root in MySQL. e.g. root
MySQL Database: Give the name of the database that you have created for your Joomla! e.g. My Site
Once Joomla! connects to the database then it will ask for the site name that you want to set.

Now it will ask for the site URL, path and the will provide you with admin password to login as admin. You can change the admin password latter. Now your Joomla! is installed and you can create a dynamic website using Joomla!

The last step is to remove the installation directory from your Joomla! directory.