Joomla: Local Installation
Joomla is still my top choice for community site. In this www.raharjo.org blog, I am not using Joomla because I think it has too many features. I don’t need to use a shotgun to kill a fly right? However, for website like www.skma.org, I prefer Joomla. This article shows show how to install Joomla as our local site. I think it is wise to create the website locally and then after everything is fine, upload it to the site server.
1. Download Joomla
Visit http://www.joomla.org/download.html
2. Download Apache and MySQL server.
I give you an example of XAMPP as my integrated Apache and MySQL server. You can download XAMPP from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html. Do not forget to select the appropriate operating system. In this example I am using MS Windows XP.
For windows, you can found XAMPP at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#641. At the moment, I downloaded XAMPP Windows 1.7.0 version.
3. RUN xampp-win32-1.7.0-installer
I put XAMPP installation at C:\xampp as shown in the following figure.

4. Run xampp_start.exe
You can run xampp_start.exe by simply double click on it. Wait until the DOS screen shows like the following image. As it says, “do not close the strange black-white window”.

To ends this service, you can stop it by clicking on xampp_stop.exe (not now)
5. Extract Joomla to C:\xampp\htdocs\ as shown in the following figure

In this example, I extract the content of Joomla package into C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla folder. You can create any folder name you wish for example mysite or something meaningful.
6. Create database for Joomla site.
- Point your internet explorer to http://localhost/. Select your language.
- Click on phpMyAdmin
- Create new MySQL database for Joomla. This example uses joomla as the name of new database. Click on create button.

7. Create user for Joomla site.
- Back by clicking on Server:localhost
- Click on Privileges
- Click on Add a new User
- Fill Username and Password
- Set Global privileges. I recommend you choose Check All


Click on GO to finish this step.
7. Install Joomla 1.5.9
- Point your browser to http://localhost/joomla.
This vary depends on what name you type for your Joomla directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\. If you decide to use name mysite instead of joomla, you have to point your internet browser to http://localhost/mysite
- Choose your installation language
- Fill database configuration with your usename, password and name of your Joomla database (Step 6 and 7)

- FTP Configuration, Just select NO
- Enter Site Name, Your email address, and Admin Password
- I recommend you to Click on Install Default Sample Data to put many examples of articles and menus.
8. Done
If you get the following message, well done! You did a great job.

Remember, delete INSTALLATION directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla
9. Try it
Your local Joomla site can be found at http://localhost/joomla/
Your administration of your Joomla site can be found at http://localhost/joomla/administrator
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16 Responses to “Joomla: Local Installation”
said on January 18th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
[...] Install Joomla 1.5.x as mentioned in this article http://www.raharjo.org/?p=470&language=en [...]
said on January 21st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
[...] Joomla: Local Installation [...]
said on February 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
bagaimana supaya online joomla nya di hosted server
thanks bro
said on February 20th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Caranya hampir mirip dengan WordPress. Tahapannya adalah sebagai berikut:
1. ZIP isi folder Joomla. Langkah ini sangat saya sarankan daripada upload (transfer via FTP) satu persatu
2. Dump database dari Joomla di phpMyAdmin lokal
3. Tentukan domain (atau sub domain) di hosted server. Kalau mau menjadi domain utama biasanya di /home/userkita/public_html
4. Upload dan ekstrak file ZIP di langkah 1
5. Buat database kosong untuk Zoomla di phpMyAdmin hosted server. Buat user dan set privileges user untuk database tersebut
6. Edit configuration.php ubahlah
- nama database (Langkah 5)
- nama user untuk database (Langkah 5)
- password user untuk database (langkah 5)
- alamat home (misal /home/namauser/public_html). Catatan: untuk Joomla 1.5 tidak diperlukan lagi
- alamat web (ubah dari http://localhost ke alamat domain misal http://www.namasaya.com). Catatan: untuk: Joomla 1.5 tidak diperlukan lagi.
- Log path dan tmp path sebaiknya juga diubah
7. Import database (Langkah 1) ke database anda di hosted server dengan phpMyAdmin
8. Test website
Tolong dilihat tutorial upload WP di sini karena hampir sama. Perbedaanya adalah di Joomla kita mengedit file configuration.php bukan wp_config.php, serta di Joomla tidak perlu mengedit database untuk mengarahkan URL.
said on April 29th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
saya sudah melakukan instalasi sampai tahap 8. ketika pada tahap 9 local joomla site tidak bisa di buka . ada wrning. ” no configuration file found and no code installation . exiting….
apa yang harus saya lakaukan. saya sudah terlanjur menghapus instalasi joomla nya.
said on April 29th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Kalau dilihat dari pesannya sih file configuration.php tidak ada. Ada kemungkinan proses upload tidak berhasil, atau hostingnya memiliki space terbatas sehingga saat upload/ekstrak file yang seharusnya ada tidak diekstrak.
said on May 25th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Great job, this really helped me out.
Thanks!
said on May 27th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
saya setting smtp server pada Joomla 1.5.10 dengan menggunakan google, tp setelah saya coba berulangkali, selalu terjadi error “couldn’t connect smtp server” set up yang saya lakukan seperti berikut:
Mailer : SMTP Server
Mail from : my_account@gmail.com
From name : admin
Sendmail Path : /usr/sbin/sendmail
SMTP Authentication : Yes
SMTP Username : my_account@gmail.com
SMTP Password : my_password
SMTP Host : ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465
kira-kita kesalahan saya dimana ya????
thx..
said on May 27th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Coba SMTP Host tanpa ssl, jadi cuma smtp.gmail.com
Setting SMTP Google sama saja untuk berbagai aplikasi. Contoh setting SMTP Google dapat dilihat di http://www.raharjo.org/internet/email/google-smtp-prestashop.html
said on June 9th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
mas saya dah coba ikutin langkah diatas, tapi tampil pesan error : SMTP Error! Could not connect to SMTP host.” itu kenapa ya…
said on June 11th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Saya sudah mempraktekan dengan Prestashop (bukan dengan Joomla) dan semuanya berjalan lancar. Semua email notifikasi langsung tersimpan di folder SENT MAIL saya. Kalau lihat dari pesan error jelas tidak bisa konek ke SMTP yang bisa dikarenakan salah nama smtp, tipe encryption, username, password, dan port.
Untuk joomla di salah satu web, saya gunakan SMTP ke mail bawaan hosting. Jadi mungkin alternatifnya silakan buat email di tempat hosting dan koneksikan ke SMTP di tempat hosting.
said on June 11th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
ok mas, makasih akhirnya dah bisa aktif smtp servernya setelah saya RESTART APACHE server, sekarang pertanyaannya saya (maaf kalo banyak tanya hehehe..), bisa gak ya antar user joomla saling kirim email tapi lewat joomla juga, jadi ada form untuk bisa kirim email antar user gitu… tq
said on June 11th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Saya gunakan Komponen Community Builder untuk keperluan itu. Jadi email undisclosed yang ada cuma form saja.
said on June 12th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
maksudnya di undisclosed gimana ya mas ?, maaf nich kalo banyak tanya, saya masih baru dengan joomla, apakah konfigurasinya susah untuk komponen itu, TQ
said on March 18th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Saya dah selesai di tahap installasi tahap 8,setelah di hapus c:\xampp\joomla. saya tidak bisa panggil di browser dengan http://localhost/joomla,errornya object not found,tp klo saya restore folder joomlanya saya panggil lagi di browser muncul layar instalasi joomla di tahap 8 yg meminta utk diremoved dulu folder instalasinya. Apa yg salah ya? mohon petunjuk krn msh newbie. Thx
said on March 22nd, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Sudah sy reply via email. Yang dihapus bukan folder joomla melainkan folder joomla/install
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