Joomla: Local Installation

JoomlaFrontpage350 Joomla: Local InstallationJoomla 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.

 image001 Joomla: Local Installation


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”.

 image002 Joomla: Local Installation

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

 image003 Joomla: Local Installation

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.

 image004 Joomla: Local Installation

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

 image005 Joomla: Local Installation

image006 Joomla: Local Installation
 
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)

 image007 Joomla: Local Installation

- 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.
 image008 Joomla: Local Installation

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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