Joomla is a free web application used by community website. It is a secured way to login/logout for users, administration and of course content editing and management.It manage your sites’ contents like documents, pictures, HTML and other web documents. The below steps will guide you with installing Joomla.
# First you need to start the Apache and MySQL services. Start buttons next to each process in XAMPP.
#In the htdocs folder of XAMPP, just Put the unzipped Joomla package . If you have XAMPP installed on your C:\XAMPP directory so the Joomla folder goes to the C:\XAMPP\HTDOCS folder.
# Then you need to rename the Joomla folder to anything you want like new Joomla.
# You need to browse the URL where Joomla is placed. If you have it on your computer with folder named “newjoomla” the URL will be http://localhost/newjoomla then you should see the Joomla installer open on your web browser.
# There are seven steps in Joomla installer, The first step is the language so just you need to choose the language that you want to use. At the second step it is important that you meet the pre-installation check wherein a list of all minimum requirements need to be met.
# Click next on the license agreement page.
# You need to create a mySQL account that will be used by Joomla so that can be save data to the MySQL database.
# If you are using Windows operating system, than no need to enable the FTP settings on the FTP configuration screen.
# Enter your preferred site name, admin email and password.
#Now you will get a message saying that you need to remove the installation directory. So you need to go to the Joomla directory and delete the “installation” sub-directory.
# Now have your own Joomla website. If you used the same “newjoomla” folder name then the URL will be http://localhost/newjoomla/
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