Basic Joomla installation tutorial

Posted on March 10, 2009 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 5 Comments

Joomla is a popular web-based content management solution (CMS).  As a CMS, it lets you manage your sites’ contents like documents, pictures, HTML and other web documents.  This free web application could be used as your corporate or community website, complete with a secured login/logout for users, administration and of course content editing and management.

Joomla requires a PHP webserver and MySQL like the one packaged in XAMPP.  We have written about XAMPP and SQLyog to guide you with the installation of the required software.  The steps below will guide you with installing Joomla.

SQLyog – MySQL database manager

Posted on February 11, 2009 - Filed Under Computer Tips | 2 Comments

Lately we have written about XAMPP which lets you get started with Apache, PHP and mySQL.  XAMPP comes packed with phpMyAdmin as a default database client where you can use to manage your databases.  See the screenshot of phpMyAdmin below: 

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phpMyAdmin has a lot of features but since it is a web based client, you are limited to its interface’s capabilities (i.e. no functional right click shortcuts and requires more steps to issue an operation). 

How to install and run Apache web and MySQL database servers using XAMPP

Posted on November 5, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | 2 Comments

Most beginning web developers are daunted by the thought of having to install and configure Apache web server, mySQL database server and even an FTP host.  Before XAMPP, you will need to run individual installers and having gone this path I can tell it wasn’t an easy task for a newbie.  If you don’t know yet what these programs are, please see my notes below:

  • Apache – open source web server software.  This basically allows you to use your computer as a web host.  If you have this on your computer you can run HTML, PHP, etc over http in your browser.