Q. What is Joomla?

-- Joomla is a popular Open Source Content Management System (CMS) tool which allows us to easily build dynamic website and manage online applications. It also manage & publish your website contents like video, pictures, articles on the website. Joomla is freely available, which supports huge third party plug-ins and themes. With the help of Content Management System (CMS), you can set up websites in the World Wide Web (WWW) without having knowledge of programming.

Step: 1. Set Host Name :

# hostname joomla.domain.com
# vi /etc/sysconfig/network

HOSTNAME=joomla.domain.com

-- Save & Quit (:wq)

Step: 2. Bind Hosts File :

# vi /etc/hosts

10.100.99.214           joomla.domain.com    joomla

-- Save & Quit (:wq)

Step: 3. Disable Selinux & Stop Firewall :

# vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux

SELINUX=disabled

-- Save & Quit (:wq)

# service iptables stop
# chkconfig iptables off

Step: 4. Install NTP Server (for Time Synchronization) :

# yum -y install ntp ntpdate
# service ntpd restart
# chkconfig ntpd on
# ntpdate pool.ntp.org

Step: 5. Install Apache Server :

# yum -y install httpd httpd-devel

Step: 6. Edit httpd.conf file :

# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

#ServerName www.example.com:80

-- Add this Line:

ServerName ip_address_of_server:80

-- Save & Quit (:wq)

Step: 6. Download & Extract Joomla Package :

# cd /var/www/html
# wget http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/18323/80367/Joomla_3.1.1-Stable-Full_Package.tar.gz
# mkdir joomla
# tar zxvf Joomla_3.1.1-Stable-Full_Package.tar.gz -C joomla/

# chmod -Rf 775 joomla

Step: 7. Edit the 'httpd.conf' File :

# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

-- Add those Lines :

<Directory /var/www/html/joomla>
    Options -Indexes +Multiviews
       DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from all
</Directory>

-- Save & Quit (:wq)

Step: 8. Install MySQL Database Server :

# yum -y install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel

Step: 9. Start MySQL Service :

# service mysqld start
# chkconfig mysqld on

Step: 10. Setup MySQL Root Password :

# mysql_secure_installation

Step: 11. Create Database & User for Joomla :

# mysql -u root -p

-- Give root Password.

Mysql> create database joomladb character set utf8;
Mysql> grant all privileges on joomla.* to joomla@'localhost' identified by 'password';
Mysql> grant all privileges on joomla.* to joomla@'%' identified by 'password';
Mysql> flush privileges;
Mysql> exit

Step: 12. Install PHP5 Scripting Language :

# yum -y install epel-release
# yum -y install php php-devel php-cli php-mysql php-common php-gd php-mbstring \
   php-mcrypt php-imap php-xml php-xmlrpc

Step: 13. Check php Configuration :

# vi /var/www/html/info.php

<?php
  phpinfo();
?>

-- Save & Quit (:wq)

Step: 14. Restart Apache to Load php :

# service httpd restart
# chkconfig httpd on

Step: 15. Then Point your Browser to http://ip_address/info.php :

Ex- http://10.100.99.214/info.php

Step: 16. Configure Joomla Server through Web Browser :

Go to http://10.100.99.214/joomla

-- Select Language: English
-- Site Name: Koushik's World
     Admin Email: kchatterjee@domain.com
-- Admin Username: admin
     Admin Password: Passw0rd
     Confirm Admin Password: Passw0rd
  
-- Click Next
-- Database Type: MySQL
     Hostname: localhost
     Username: joomla
     Password: password
     Database Name: joomladb
  
-- Click Next.
-- Just Skip Ftp Configuration.
-- Click Next.
-- Select Blog English Sample Data.
-- Click Install.
-- Click on Remove Installation Folder.
-- Click on Site.

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