Installation Guide to JOOMLA

Published July 26, 2010 | By Shashi Prakash Agarwal

Is budget for a CMS your problem? Do you think that you could use that money for something else than a CMS. If you are a programmer or have keen interest in knowing about the opensource cms this guide is for you, which will tell you numerous facts and instructions while installing joomla a very very famous opensource CMS.

INSTRUCTIONS:-

First of all, you need to download JOOMLA from http://www.joomla.org/download.html .
Now you need a web server where you can upload the downloaded files. For the same, you could either use some online hosting services, or if your sole purpose is testing, you could download WAMP Server or use LAMP Server. It is your choice, choose any of the server but remember that it should support php & mysql. This is the sole requirement for an open source cms. If you are willing to experiment with PostGreSQL, I wont stop you.. The web technology is all a kind of innovation which developed from simple imagination. Rightly said by a great person, ” Login will take you from A to B but imagination will take you everywhere.” . So whenever you are experimenting with online resources, use your brain and ignite the innovative pattern.
Now after you have set up the server and download of the JOOMLA cms has completed. Now you need to extract the downloaded file to a preferable location on the server. For instance, the root of WAMP Server by default is C:\Wamp\WWW\ . For installation of the CMS, we could use the location : c:\wamp\www\cms1 .. This location will point to http://localhost/cms1 . Once you extract the file then open up your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/cms1. Now the installation setup will appear in front of you. Follow the instructions.. As usual keep clicking on NEXT … Now in another tab open up phpmyadmin using the url http://localhost/phpmyadmin and create a database named ‘db_joom” .Now switch to the previous tab and a screen will come and will ask you for the hostname, database name, user id & password. So if you are using the default configurations of WAMP Server, use the hostname:localhost and database:db_joom , user id : root and password: <blank>. By default, no password is set on the MYSQL feature in WAMP.
Subsequently, after installation, the CMS will give you instruction to remove /installations directory.
Now, your web site is ready.
Enjoy your JOOMLA experience