Installing Joomla in an Ubuntu Box is fairly straight forward work. The world has being lot more easier on CMS installations than early days.In our previous CMS tutorial for linux we gave you instructions on how to install drupal in localhost .Follow the steps below to come up with a quick Jommla installation on your local machine where you can test your web application for later production hosting.

Prerequisites:

• A POSIX (Unix) user account for joomla
• A database and credentials to the joomla user to manipulate the database
• Apache web server
• PHP5
• MySQL

If you install Joomla in a Ubuntu Server machine, then you’ll have to access the Web-Based installer from a client machine. Else take a web browser and give the installation path and hit enter.

http://localhsot/joomla

This will start the web-based installer.

After selecting the language of choice, the next screen will check whether the prerequisites are fulfilled.

Note: In this screenshot I’ve given root as the database user, but you can create any POSIX user and grant the database access to that user.

Eg:

# create user joomla

#mysql -u root -p

mysql>create database joomla;

mysql>grant all on joomla.* to joomla@localhost identified by ‘user_password’;

mysql>flush privileges;

You may have to create a FTP server account for file uploads for Joomla.

You can either have your own FTP server or some third party FTP server. But you need to create a user for joomla and assign it during the setup.

Then comes the Main Configuration window, where you have to enter;

• Site name
• Default email
• And install of sample data

Installing sample data will be important for some cases where it helps in restoring the site in case of crash.

If all goes smoothly, you can complete the installation and log in to your new Joomla installation by providing the admin username and password of the Joomla that you created.

After entering the username and password, you will be loged in to the Joomla Administrator panel. There you an create content, customize themes, install new themes, and do all the joomla administration.

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