Joomla is a free Open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. Joomla is used for developing high features enriched websites with thousands of plugins. If you are a newbie at Joomla then you don’t need to get a domain name and a web hosting for trying it. You can try Joomla installaing int your Local server in Windows using the WampServer like we Install WordPress locally on windows.
So we have brought you a working complete tutorial on installing Joomla on your Local server with WampServer.
Install WampServer
WampServer is a free windows application that install Apache, PHP5 and MySQL on your Windows system which is useful for web development. It comes with PHPMyAdmin to easily manage your databases.
Download WampServer application and install it in your system. After the installation is completed, run Wamp server from Start > All Program > Wamp Server > Start WampServer. Now goto windows system tray, Click WampServer icon and click “Start all services” to fully run WampServer.
Create a Database
Enter http://Localhost/phpmyadmin to open Phymyadmin in your browser that helps you easily manage your databases.
Now create a new database on your desired name for Localhost setup. I suggest you to create a database with the name similar to the installation like I have used “Joomla” here.
Now goto PhpMyAdmin homepage and then Click “Privileges” link. Now click “Add a new user” below the user overview.
In “Add a new user” page, choose your desired Joomla login username and password. Choose Local as your host. Select “None” for database for user which is by default. Below select “Check All” in the Global privileges which will automatically select all the MYSQL privileges. Click GO to continue.
Download Joomla
You can easily download Joomla from the Joomla Official Download page into your hard drive. The installation file is in .zip format. After download rename the .zip file to “joomla”and extract it to the WWW directory of WampServer.
To access the the www folder of WampServer, click the WampServer icon at the windows System tray and select “www directory”.
The Installation
Open http://Localhost in your browser and select the Joomla folder or you can easily start installation fromhttp://localhost/joomla. There are altogether 7 steps in the installation and it begins now.
Choose language for your installation, it is available in around 64 different langauge. Here I am selectng English (US) which is by default. Now move to Next step.
You will see the Joomla pre-installation check in the next page. This page checks all the requirement needed for joomla. As you are using wamp server you will not get any error you can process to another section by clicking Next.
After this you will see a GNU General Public License page. If you like then you may continue to next page reading it or just Skip to next step.
Now comes the most important step of the installation. From you have to connect joomla with the database that you have created earlier. Also use the same data for for other fields that you have used before.
The next page is about the FTP configuration. You may continue to next step leaving the default value which is “No”.
Now comes the main Configururation page for Local Joomla Website. Select you Site name, Admin email address and the admin password that you have used above. Finally click on “Install Sample Data” and proceed to Next final step.
Congratulations you have successfully installed Joomla in your Local Server on Windows. The next page is the Finish page which will contain your Joomla Administration Login Details.
Now you have to remove the installation directory of Joomla. The installation won’t work unless you remove the installation directory displaying you the following message when opened.
To remove the installation directory, open the Joomla folder inside the www directory and delete the “Installation folder” or you can rename it to "Installation folderx". Now you can easily login into Joomla Frontpage from http://Localhost/joomla.
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