Joomla
Friday, December 25, 2009What is Joomla?
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
What’s a content management system (CMS)?
A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don’t have to.
1. Go to joomla site (joomla.org) then copy the link location on the download area.
2. Login to ssh (putty) in installing
3. Create a folder then download the link location (wget then the link location)
4. unzip the file (unzip then the zip file)
5. Point the domain name to the folder which your joomla files are located
6. Configure the joomla with the database access the domain name where you install the joomla
7. Turn off the register globals using in php.ini file
this should be the content of the php.ini file (you will create this file) and placed it in installation folder
register_globals = Off
display_errors = Off
8. Continue configuring the joomla. After you input everything (database etc.)
9. Removed the installation folder then access your website. hopefully this instruction will help you in installing the jomla manually.
What are some real world examples of what Joomla! can do?
Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepages


