Joomla is frequently referred to as the Internet’s most user-friendly and beneficial Content Management System. To benefit from its capabilities you need only download it and install it on your servers. Of course, that’s easy to say, but what if you are not familiar with content management software? How to install it? Is it something that is difficult to do?
A lot of people will find that existing tutorials on how to install Joomla presuppose that certain things have been done when they have not. The absolute first thing you must have done before you seek to install Joomla is to have web hosting on one of the Internet’s many web host servers. If you do not already have that, then search on Google for “cheap web hosting” and select one that is suitable for your purpose.
Once you have web hosting for your site, you should have access to your “cPanel” (short for control panel). Whatever the URL of your site is, the URL for your server will be the same, with “/cpanel” on the end of it, and will be accessed by entering your user name and password. Usually, your hosting service will have a module known as Fantastico. This is the easiest way how to install Joomla. If you have Fantastico on your web hosting, then you need only open it and click the Joomla link that will be there. On doing this, you will be taken through the setup process and have access to Joomla instantly.
However, not every server has a Fantastico module and if this is the case, then you will need to manually install Joomla. This is a longer process but, if followed correctly, does not need to be particularly long-winded or problematic. Firstly, check that your web host meets the following requirements:
- PHP 4.4.3 or better
- SQL 3.23.x or better
- Apache 1.13.19 or better
If it does not, then you will need to get these requirements in place – it will not be difficult – and then download the set up file from Joomla.org. It will now be on your computer in whichever file you have downloaded it into. You now need to log into your cPanel and upload the Joomla file which should still be in “.zip” form. You can unzip it in your cPanel by clicking on it and then clicking “Extract” on the cPanel toolbar.
As long as this process has taken place, you then need to check everything has been done correctly. You do this by going to http://www.yourdomain.com/Joomla_folder (although obviously putting the name of your site into the URL above). If any errors have been made, they will show up on the screen in red. You can either correct them manually or, if you don’t know how, contact your host. Assuming there are no errors, or that all errors have been corrected, you then go to the configuration mode, where you set up your site.
Setting up the site is done by following a range of options, which are concerned with configuring a database and setting passwords. Once this process has been carried out, you are ready to run your site using Joomla to update it.
Good tutorial, but I need some help: Installed XAMPP and tried to test it but it still shows my apache web server page. I actually extracted the XAMPP files in /opt file system(/opt/lampp). Then I installed Joomla and extracted it in the server. When testing, (after doing a few more things) writing http://localhost/joomla in browser: “couldn`t find localhost/in port 80).
What to do?
It is good one to implement joomla but I need some information about that error which is generally occur during installation.
what should be do with that error