• Lesson Index:
• Overview
• Installing Joomla
• User Accounts
• Link Management
• Assigning Privileges
• Submitting news
• Media Manager
• Adding New Category
• Admin Messages
• News Feeds
• Syndicate News Feeds
• Update Contact Page
• Page Impressions
• Customizing Templates
• More Joomla Notes

Installing Joomla Content Management System

In these lessons, we will be installing and using Joomla version 1.0.12. For details instructions see here. For questions, ask their forums. Their Joomla Template tutorial is a good overview of how the Joomla site process works. And also Visual tutorials

Documentation are Installation Guide, User Manual, Administration Guide, and Developer Manual. You might also want to look at JoomlaTutorials.

Installing Joomla...

1. Go to joomla.org and click download and download the latest stable zip package. You want to download the documentation as well. Follow instructions in the Installation Guide or User Manual.

2. If not using third-party components that require register_global on, you should change to

define( 'RG_EMULATION', 0 );

in globals.php.

3. Setup a MySQL database on your webhost and create an admin user for that database.

4. Run browser install following the steps in the Installation Guide.

5. When browser install is done, copy the configuration information in the last step to configuration.php if not already there.

6. Remove the installation directory from your webhost.

Your Joomla site is now up at the http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php

This is the rhuk_solarflare_ii template, which is one of two templates shipped with Joomla.

The adminstration panel is at http://www.yourdomain.com/administrator/

To enter, use the "admin" login and password that you chose during the setup. This is the "Super Administrator" account that is created during the install.

Note about the Pre-Install Check:

In order to get the pre-install check to pass, you might need to alter the php.ini file. If you are on a dedicated server, you might need root access. If you can not alter your php.ini, you might be able to override certain PHP configure values via the .htaccess file on your website root. But this only works if the server allows overrides and if PHP is installed as an module instead of CGI. See details here and reference here. If you are on a shared server in CGI mode, you can try this.

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