From Web Hosting to Your First Website - Installing Joomla CMS
Joomla is a great content management system.
It is used by many people worldwide for personal websites, blogs, online shops, or for some other type of website.
Joomla is also used by some companies for their homepage.
Because Joomla is universal and has a lot of extensions you can use it for almost anything.
Installing Joomla is a very simple process.
You need some web hosting account.
With it you get disk space where you will upload your files, FTP account for transferring files and MySQL database which Joomla needs.
Before you start with installation make sure that you domain is pointing to your hosting and the FTP account works and you can transfer files.
The next step is to create a MySQL database.
Simply log in to your hosting control panel and go to the database management.
You can also use phpMyAdmin utility to do the same.
Create one databases and one user which should have complete access to this database.
For Joomla installation you will need database name, user name and password.
Now you should go to the official Joomla website and download the latest version.
You will get a compressed archive file.
You can either upload this file to the web server and unpack it there if you control panel has some file manager or you can unpack it on your local disk and then upload individual files to the web server.
Once you have all the files on you web server at your hosting company you can start the installation process.
Simply go to your domain and you should get Joomla installation page asking for language selection.
If you get some error then check if the domain is working, you have uploaded Joomla files to the correct (public) folder and the hosting account is working.
If everything works as expected then simply follow instructions.
Joomla installer will check your configuration and warn you if something is missing or there is some setting that may cause you trouble.
When asked for database data enter database name, user name and password of the database you have created earlier.
You will also be asked whether you would like to install sample data.
Unless you are an experienced Joomla user you should do this so you will have some sample articles and news to start with You will be also asked for FTP account.
This is a good workaround to allow Joomla to access your files with Read/Write permissions without having direct access to the files.
The last step after the installation process is finished is to remove the "installation" folder.
Now your Joomla website is up and running.
Go to your domain and you should see default Joomla website.
Log in to the Joomla administrator and start creating your pages.
It is used by many people worldwide for personal websites, blogs, online shops, or for some other type of website.
Joomla is also used by some companies for their homepage.
Because Joomla is universal and has a lot of extensions you can use it for almost anything.
Installing Joomla is a very simple process.
You need some web hosting account.
With it you get disk space where you will upload your files, FTP account for transferring files and MySQL database which Joomla needs.
Before you start with installation make sure that you domain is pointing to your hosting and the FTP account works and you can transfer files.
The next step is to create a MySQL database.
Simply log in to your hosting control panel and go to the database management.
You can also use phpMyAdmin utility to do the same.
Create one databases and one user which should have complete access to this database.
For Joomla installation you will need database name, user name and password.
Now you should go to the official Joomla website and download the latest version.
You will get a compressed archive file.
You can either upload this file to the web server and unpack it there if you control panel has some file manager or you can unpack it on your local disk and then upload individual files to the web server.
Once you have all the files on you web server at your hosting company you can start the installation process.
Simply go to your domain and you should get Joomla installation page asking for language selection.
If you get some error then check if the domain is working, you have uploaded Joomla files to the correct (public) folder and the hosting account is working.
If everything works as expected then simply follow instructions.
Joomla installer will check your configuration and warn you if something is missing or there is some setting that may cause you trouble.
When asked for database data enter database name, user name and password of the database you have created earlier.
You will also be asked whether you would like to install sample data.
Unless you are an experienced Joomla user you should do this so you will have some sample articles and news to start with You will be also asked for FTP account.
This is a good workaround to allow Joomla to access your files with Read/Write permissions without having direct access to the files.
The last step after the installation process is finished is to remove the "installation" folder.
Now your Joomla website is up and running.
Go to your domain and you should see default Joomla website.
Log in to the Joomla administrator and start creating your pages.
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