Joomla! 1.5 PDF Installation Manual

Well you have made the most important choice so far, by selecting Joomla! 1.5 as your choice of Content Management System (CMS). Joomla! is currently one of the most popular and effective Open Source projects and has won a number of prestigious awards in its short, but illustrious existence. Joomla! 1.5 is the second, main incarnation of the Joomla! series of releases. The original Joomla! 1.0 series being a direct derivative of the Mambo CMS which many of the current Joomla! Developers helped create. Joomla! 1.5 is a major step forward from 1.0, with many new eatures and a far more integrated framework. This manual seeks to provide you with the necessary information you need in order to safely install the basic core package onto an existing, fully operational, Web server. We will, by necessity, touch upon the essential needs for setting Joomla! Up, but this manual is not a detailed guide on how to build and configure a Web server or database. You are essentially expected to have these in
operation already.

We trust you will enjoy the process and can then look forward to tailoring Joomla! to your own specific requirements. Installing and using Joomla! is generally straight forward, getting your perfect Web site takes a lot more effort but there is much, as you will discover, that has been done to make the process easier along the way. There may be a time lapse between the information contained within the Web pages and this downloadable PDF version of the manual. This will be minimalised as much as possible, but the Web pages will always be the most up-to-date.
If you intend migrating content from an existing Joomla! 1.0.x Web site we strongly recommend first running a test installation of Joomla! 1.5 before you proceed with the migration attempt. Always make sure you have backed up your data before running the Migrator Component.

Minimum System Requirements
To successfully install and use Joomla! you must have a fully operational Web server (Apache is the optimum), a database (MySQL is the optimum) and the server side scripting language PHP together with specific modules that are activated within PHP for MySQL, XML, and Zlib functionality amongst others.

Joomla! has been successfully tested on many variants within the main three OS for Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OSX. It may well work on other platforms but this is less well documented. Joomla! is also regularly used and tested through the main Web browsers available such as IE6 +, irefox 1.5 +, Safari, and Opera but it may also work with others.

Localhost or Remote Host Installations
A localhost is a Web server and associated database that is set up directly on your computer or that may be on a local network either within your home or business environment. You have direct easy access to the machine upon which the software is situated A remote host is one that you access via the internet it may be owned by you or you may rent it from a dedicated hosting company. In this case there are different flavours such as managed, dedicated, virtual, or shared hosting. But in simple terms the computer that houses the software is remote from you. The scope and detailed explanation of each of these flavours is outside of the boundaries of this manual but whichever option you select you must ensure that they meet your expected requirements together with the minimum specifications detailed above. In respect of the localhost option there are a number of ready made packages that put all the necessary software together (excluding Joomla!) in one easily installable package that generally allow you to have your own personal Web server and database without really knowing too much about how they work. The following are the more readily available, and popular, varieties of these packages and the operating systems for which they are designed.

Most Linux distributions these days come with the requisite components available within their own repositories, or even within the main distribution software download that you get. There will often be different ways of activating the functionality so you would need to check the documentation of your own particular distribution choice. The individual distributions compile the necessary dependencies, links, and changes as a part of the installation process, be it RPM, YUM, or one of the other bespoke installers. Alternatively, on any OS platform you can download and configure the individual components from the various Web sites listed (as you generally would need to do for a live Web site if your hosting provider did not cater for these) and create your own servers, but these packages do provide an easier, integrated solution. Most of the packages will also usually contain some form of database administration program as well, for example, PHPMyAdmin or MySQLAdmin, to enable effective management of the database, if not, you will find it advantageous to install such a program if you intend doing any sort of database editing work.

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February 19, 2010 | Posted in Software, Web Programming Manual

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