Installing Joomla! on Windows

#Joomla #CMS #Windows

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0417.html

What is Joomla?

Joomla! is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. Over the years Joomla! has won several awards. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS that allows you to build powerful online applications. - https://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html      01. Download XAMPP  https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/    02. Download Joomla!  https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-9-24/Joomla_3-9-24-Stable-Full_Package.zip?format=zip    03. Download Microsoft Visual C++  https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe    04. Install Microsoft Visual C++    05. Right click the downloaded XAMPP file ≫ Extract All...    06. Right click the downloaded Joomla! .zip file ≫ Extract All...    07. Rename the extracted folder joomla    08. Cut the joomla folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory    09. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example    10. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location    11. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe    12. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL    13. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin    14. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell windows here...    15. Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the Joomla! database          ./mysql -u root          CREATE DATABASE joomla DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;          GRANT ALL ON joomla.* TO 'joomla_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'J00mla!!';          FLUSH PRIVILEGES;          EXIT;    16. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/joomla    17. The Joomla! setup screen should be displayed    18. Set the site title and create an administrative account login ≫ Click the Next button    19. Enter the database configuration as follows:          Database Type: MySQLi          Host Name: localhost          Username: joomla_rw          Password: J00mla!!          Database Name: joomla          Table Prefix: jmla_    20. Click the Next button    21. On the Overview page click the Install button    22. Review the configuration and click the Install button    23. When the installation completes, click the yellow Remove "installation" folder button    24. Click on the Site button    25. Welcome to your very own, self-hosted Joomla! installation  

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