Hello everybody, happy thanksgiving 🙂

Today I try to explain how to install Joomla. I’m also long time user of Mambo that transform to Joomla. Why I choose Joomla in this post because I have mail from a reader, ask me to show how to install Joomla locally.

If you in researching stage you might want to see these posts :

• Step by step install WordPress
• Step by step install Drupal
• Step by step install ExpressionEngine

Ok. lets continue with Install Joomla at localhost :

Download Joomla

Get latest version of Joomla from this address.

Save and extract to C:\wamp\www\joomla

Create Database for Joomla

Open phpmyadmin and create new database. I create database with name ‘joomla‘

Set New Domain

I want to try new subdomain for this Joomla installation. (See this post for example add new domain)

I pick name :

http://joomla.batikweb.com

Add VirtualHost entry

Open file C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

Add these lines :

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot “C:/wamp/www/joomla”
ServerName joomla.batikweb.com
<Directory “C:/wamp/www/joomla/”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

save the file.

Restart wampserver and open from browser : http://joomla.batikweb.com

Installation Wizard

Language

Select your language and click Next.

Pre-installation Check

PHP Version >= 4.3.10	Yes
– Zlib Compression Support	Yes
– XML Support	Yes
– MySQL Support	Yes
MB Language is Default	Yes
MB String Overload Off	Yes
configuration.php Writable	Yes

Recommend Check suggest :

Directive	Recommended	Actual
Safe Mode:	Off	Off
Display Errors:	Off	On
File Uploads:	On	On
Magic Quotes Runtime:	Off	Off
Register Globals:	Off	Off
Output Buffering:	Off	On
Session Auto Start:	Off	Off

Click Next.

License

By click Next it mean You accept the license.

Database Configuration

Fill all data

FTP Configuration

I add folder C:\wamp\www\joomla as home dir.

For information about setting FTP server in your windows system you can refer to this link.

Click button “Set as home dir” followed by click “OK” button.

Enter login information in FTP configuration.

Click on “Verify FTP Settings” give me this error :

[UNKNOWN: 8192] Function ereg() is deprecated
error in line 1177 of file C:\wamp\www\joomla\libraries\joomla\client\ftp.php

I’ll continue on next post.

My daughter cry 🙂

Stay health!