Joomla-preparing Installation - installing the server environment
As a CMS Joomla requires a database, PHP and Perl. All the conditions you need are in the Apache Distribution XAMPP included. The Installation of the environment is a good deal for beginners. In the images gallery you can use the steps again to understand.
- Download the current Version of XAMMP down.
- You start the Installation. The Wizard leads you sure you need to make any Changes.
- The Installation of XAMPP is completed, starts the Control Panel. Click on the button "Start" behind "Apache" and "MySQL". In the case of an active Firewall, you will be asked for the access permission.
Joomla local install - Create the database
You have installed XAMPP and Apache and MySQL started, you can create a database.
- Open a browser window and enter the URL "localhost" (without the quotation marks). On the home window, select your language and then go to the configuration window.
- You can navigate the side menu to "Tools" -> "phpMyAdmin".
- In the "phpMyAdmin"window on the left, click "New" to create a new database. Enter a database name, there are no requirements, you can choose the name freely. In the Dropdown "collation" select "utf8_general_ci" and click on "Create".
- In the left column you will now see the just created database. Click on it, select the tab "rights" and click on "add user".
- Here you can enter a user name and choose a password. Set Host "local", you can access only from your PC to the database. Also other computers on the network you wish to access, select "any Host". Make sure that the check mark is set for "Grant all privileges on database "(your Name)" and confirm with "OK".
The actual Joomla Installation
All the conditions are created, you can start the actual Joomla Installation.
- Download the current Version of Joomla to your PC and unzip the zip file in the directory "c:\xampp\htdocs\". You have entered during the Installation of XAMPP not have their own path, this is the Root directory of XAMPP.
- Open a browser window and enter the URL "localhost" appears, the installation wizard of Joomla.
- Enter a page name, an optional description, Email address, a user name and a password. With a click on "Next" to go to the database configuration.
- As the database type, select "MySQL". The Host is "localhost" and the user "root". In the field "database name" enter the name of the database you created in phpMyAdmin. A password you do not need to specify. The table prefix you can leave either blank, the generated prefix or something to enter. It is important that the entry ends with an underscore. A table prefix is useful if you use the database, otherwise, for example, for another page. Click on "Next".
- On the following page, you will get again an Overview of the settings. Here you can simply click "Install".
- The Installation takes a while, you can then access your Joomla-page with the address bar "localhost" in the Browser.
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