Basic Joomla Installation Tutorial

Posted on March 10, 2009 at 5:49 am

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.

You can get the Joomla package from their official website: http://www.joomla.org/

Step 1. Start the Apache and MySQL services.  In XAMPP you will need to click the Start buttons next to each process:

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Step 2.  Put the unzipped Joomla package on the htdocs folder of XAMPP. I have XAMPP installed on my C:\XAMPP directory so the Joomla folder goes to the C:\XAMPP\HTDOCS folder:

You can rename the Joomla folder to anything you want.  In my setup I renamed it to myJoomla.

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Step 3. Browse the URL where Joomla is placed.  If you have it on your computer with folder named “myJoomla” the URL will be http://localhost/myJoomla. You should see the Joomla installer open on your web browser:

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Step 4.  Follow the seven steps of the Joomla installer.  First step is the language so just choose the language that you want to use.  At the second step it is important that you meet the pre-installation check wherein a list of all minimum requirements need to be met:

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Step 5.  Read carefully the license agreement, press next if you agree to the statements provided in the agreement.

Step 6.  Create a mySQL account that will be used by Joomla so it can save data to the MySQL database.   Enter the account details on the fields

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Step 7. You will not need to enable the FTP settings on the FTP configuration screen.   This is not required on a Windows OS since you can directly alter the Joomla files using explorer.  If you use a secured web host, you should set an FTP account that can access the root directory.  You might need to get with the host admin to get the username and password if you want it to be a generic account separate from your user account.

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Step 8. Enter the main configuration settings.  Enter your preferred site name, admin email and password:

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Step 9. At this point you will get a hurdle with a message saying that you need to remove the installation directory:

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Go to the Joomla directory and delete the “installation” sub-directory.  Only this directory needs to be removed so make sure not to touch the other files and directories.  image

Step 10. Whew! You’re done! You now have your own Joomla website. If you used the same “myJoomla” folder name then the URL will be http://localhost/myJoomla/

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Isn’t it a breeze to setup Joomla?  On the next posts we will talk about how to customize Joomla.

Ben Carigtan show’s you how it’s done.

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12 Responses to “Basic Joomla Installation Tutorial”

  1. sayde said on : March 25th, 2009 at 5:49 am

    Thanks for helping me install Joomla!


  2. amrinder said on : April 3rd, 2009 at 4:54 am

    Thanks for your help on installing Joomla! Please write a post on how to create a website with Joomla also!


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  4. rasoul said on : December 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 am

    Hi,

    I have 3 problems when installing Joomla on Fedora11:

    1 – in second step of install my configuration.php is NO and i dont understand its problem
    2 – in install information … when i click the button this message is shown:Error: the XML response that was returned from the server is invalid
    3 – when i delete installation folder and run joomla in browser I get a lot of errors which in first line is:

    Strict Standards: Non-static method JLoader::import() should not be called statically in /opt/lampp/htdocs/joomla/libraries/joomla/import.php on line 29


  5. Mukunda said on : December 25th, 2009 at 4:58 am

    Hi there,
    I have downloaded Joomla and got the zip file in the htdocs folder and named it as myjoomla. I have only tried to paste the URL http://localhost/myJoomla. I get an error message saying

    ” Object not found!

    The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

    If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
    Error 404
    localhost
    12/25/09 16:23:44
    Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8.

    Could you let me know how I can install Joomla if this is the case. I have XAMPP open and downloaded Joomla 1.5.15 version (latest).

    Kindly assist and this would be of great help as we are trying to save a river bed and a timely response would greatly help our cause.

    Many Thanks.


  6. Jens said on : December 28th, 2009 at 6:54 am

    I’m not such a big fan of blogs, but after reading your article on Joomla, I am more interested.


  7. nano said on : January 13th, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    after database configuration step, this is what i got. i am using windows vista..i have no idea why did i get this query like structure instead of the next step..

    BLOB/TEXT column ‘name’ can’t have a default value SQL=CREATE TABLE `jos_banner` ( `bid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `cid` int(11) NOT NULL default ’0′, `type` varchar(90) NOT NULL default ‘banner’, `name` TEXT NOT NULL default ”, `alias` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”, `imptotal` int(11) NOT NULL default ’0′, `impmade` int(11) NOT NULL default ’0′, `clicks` int(11) NOT NULL default ’0′, `imageurl` varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”, `clickurl` varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, `date` datetime default NULL, `showBanner` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default ’0′, `checked_out` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default ’0′, `checked_out_time` datetime NOT NULL default ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′, `editor` varchar(150) default NULL, `custombannercode` text, `catid` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, `description` TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ”, `sticky` TINYINT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, `ordering` INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, `publish_up` datetime NOT NULL default ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′, `publish_down` datetime NOT NULL default ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′, `tags` TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ”, `params` TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ”, PRIMARY KEY (`bid`), KEY `viewbanner` (`showBanner`), INDEX `idx_banner_catid`(`catid`) ) TYPE=MyISAM

    help!


  8. Miriane said on : April 19th, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    O tutorial que me ajudou de verdade!

    Muito bom, obrigada pela explicação simples e eficiente.


  9. eDesign said on : April 21st, 2010 at 4:20 pm

    Great step by step tutorial.thanks for the nice instructions, this is best for beginers who are new in learning Joomla and web design and development.

    Another related tutorials:
    techadi.com/joomla-howtos/55-how-to-install-joomla-on-local-computer.html

    Transfer Joomla site from local to host server:
    techadi.com/joomla-howtos/34-how-to-transfer-joomla-site-from-local-to-host-server.html


  10. Karen said on : May 12th, 2010 at 3:01 am

    Thanks a lot. This very helpful. :)


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