Joomla Tutorial Series: How to Install Joomla 1.5

On Tuesday, 6 May 2008 Category: Series Tutorial
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This tutorial is the first series from Joomla Tutorial Series I have plan to write. This joomla tutorial translate are slightly different from the indonesian, because my English not good at all.

The joomla we use here is new joomla stable version, version 1.5.x. The litle x mean the minor release of current joomla. Today, when I write this tutorial, the minor release is Joomla 1.5.2.

What is Joomla?

As far as I know:

Joomla! is a free open source framework and content publishing system designed for quickly creating highly interactive multi-language Web sites, online communities, media portals, blogs and eCommerce applications.

Joomla! provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface that simplifies the management and publishing of large volumes of content including HTML, documents, and rich media. Joomla! is used by organisations of all sizes for Public Web sites, Intranets, and Extranets and is supported by a community of thousands of users.

So, joomla is smart cms we use for everything, its up to you what you use joomla for.Although joomla is multi-purpose content publishing system for websites, joomla is not suitable enough to be comfortable blog engine. In this case, I prefer wordpress than joomla.

Joomla Pre-Installation

Before we use joomla, we need to install it first. Before installation we will need:


  1. Apache Web Server. Better if we have rewrite module for SEO, and others to improve joomla power.
  2. MySQL Database. MySQL is optimized database for joomla. You can use another databases, but we need extra work and setup for it. MySQl is the best.
  3. A copy of Joomla installer. Go get it here, if you dont ready have one.

If you have buy a commercial webserver, you can use fantastico tool through your cpanel, instead do manual install as we discuss here. If you do, then this tutorial dont give advantage too much for you.

The next, open your browser, my favorite is Firefox. Open your phpmyadmin page. if you use LAMPP like me, open it here: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/.Crete a new database by type it new name. For example, I use ltguide as new database name.

create new database from phpmyadmin for joomla

database for joomla has created by phpmyadmin

Installing Joomla

I have installing joomla in my local webserver. I extract the joomla installer in usermode.web.id directory. After extracting, please open your browser and go to http://localhost/usermode.web.id or wherever you extracting joomla before.

choose your language for joola installation

The first step is to choose installation language to use. Please choose the suit language from the list.

check your server whether it meet joomla requirement

Second step is to check your web server requirements that meet joomla. If you see the green color words written, that mean you pass for the requirements. Otherwise, red color mean the requirements must be corrected before we go to next step. For example, if your register globals on your php requirement is red (on), open your php.ini configuration file and toggle it to off.

Third step is to accept the joomla aggrement and license. If you dont agree, please close your browser and dont install joomla.

configuring database using joomla

Fourth step is configure the database. Joomla will ask for database server address, username and password to use. In local webserver, I think its not difficult. The problems will appear if you enter unassigned or different username for database. So, make sure the database and the username, also password is match and assigned.

configuring ftp layer using joomla

Fifth step is configure ftp layer. This joomla feature important for maintain file and folder. You need it to let joomla configure the right permission for better security issues. If you want to do it manually, dont enable it and let it empty. Before go to next step, may you want to test the FTP connection setting, push the “Verify FTP Settings” button.

configuring your website use joomla

Sixth step is configuring you website. Enter your website name, password and email addres to use and then if you are new to joomla, may you need to installing the sample data. The default sample data contain some informations and mini howto from joomla developer.

configuring your website use joomla

Finish!, congratulation! Now you have a fresh joomla powered website.

fresh joomla installation homepage

If you want to access your administration panel, you can acces it on http://localhost/instalasi_joomla/administrator.

joomla administrator panel
After installation, is a good practice to change the configuration.php file permission in your root directory and to delete the installation folder.


OK, this is the end of first series of Joomla Tutorial Series. The next series, we will discuss about how to create menu, content, and managing modules.

Baca tutorial ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia!: Seri Tutorial Joomla: Panduan Installasi Joomla 1.5

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18 Comments for “Joomla Tutorial Series: How to Install Joomla 1.5”

  • Ghonjez Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Waaah… artikelnya bagus sekali, sgt bermanfa’at bagi saya yg sdg belajar Joomla nich.. jd tambah pengetahuan akan dunia Joomla,

    Saat instalasi joomla, bagaimana cara merubah Parameter register globals-nya agar menjadi off?, soalnya saya tdk menemukan file php.ini. Saya menggunakan Joomla v1.57

    Sebelumya saya ucapkan banyak terima kasih. Jawaban saya tunggu sekali ya,,,

  • admin Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    File php.ini biasanya kalau di localhost, ada di instalasi phpnya.

    Di windows, c:\php
    atau c:\xampp\php

    Di Linux, /etc/apache2/php
    atau /etc/php

    atau xampp linux
    /opt/lampp/etc/php

    kalo gak ada, silahkan ditelusuri di instalasi php-nya

  • Ghonjez Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 10:35 am

    Ok’s dech,,,

    makasih banyak ya atas jawabannya,,,
    skrg saya ga bingung lg, soalnya file nya sdh ketemu ‘n ternyata ada di dalam sub sub sub folder gitu, he,, he,,

    o iya, saya m’gunakan server WAMP.

    Thx’s very much,,,

  • Tiar Says:
    November 4th, 2008 at 1:40 am

    Salam kenal, Sy pakai joomla versi 1.0.12, bgmana upgrade ke versi 1.5xx? Dan jg bagaimana upload file musik di joomla? Tks sy mengharapkan tanggapannya, ke email sy aja ya, skli lg tks ya

  • q2 Says:
    November 12th, 2008 at 1:29 am

    aku mau tanya gimana sih cara instalasi Joomla 1.5 RC3 ? aku dah nyampe bagian masukin nama databasenya..dan setelah aku masukkan nama databasenya, muncul pesan nggak bisa baca database mysql ku… sebelumnya aku dah buat databasenya. hal itu aku lakukan berulangkali dan hasilnya sama saja, bahkan aku sudah buat beberapa database n smw hasilnya nihil..aku pake web server vertrigo.. maklum y kalo pertanyaanku norak, biznya aku pengguna baru cms joomla. thanks

  • admin Says:
    November 12th, 2008 at 6:51 am

    Kemungkinan ada beberapa masalah:

    • alamat url server mysql-nya bukan localhost
    • nama databasenya salah. paid hosting biasanya menggunakan format: username_nama_database
    • nama user databasenya salah, format penamaannya seperti di atas
    • user tidak diassign ijin ke database yg baru dibuat.

    Coba di cek di cpanel, bagian mysql database-nya.
    Atau kalau memang sulit, pakai fantastico atau autoinstaller yang sudah disediakan di cpanelnya.

  • ngakan Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    mau tanya donk bos, gamana carana buat multilanguage misalnya bahasa inggris dan jepang di joomla? thank..

  • puspita Says:
    November 18th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    Baru belajar nih, saya bingung banget, install virtuemart ga bisa bisa :( , joomla nya sendiri dah install instant dr tempat beli domain ama hostingnya yg versi 1.5… mohon pencerahan

  • admin Says:
    November 18th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    @ngakan
    Bisa coba install mambelfish, cari ajah di remository joomla.org

    @pupita
    Coba ambil virtuemart yg full version, NATIVE joomla 1.5,
    ekstrak filenya, nanti ada file mod-xxx dan com-xxx, install yg dua ini ajah.

    Kalo gak bisa lewat installer, coba ektrak (upload) file mod-xxx ke direktori, misalnya: http://website.com/tmp

    Install lewat admin, pakai opsi install from URL

    Jelasnya, mungkin tak buatin tutorial aja kali ya?

  • Jasa pembuatan website Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    wah…tutorialnya bermanfaat sekali mas…:)

  • aries Says:
    February 18th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Thanks Bro ….

  • Yusuf Kamal Says:
    February 28th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    Hi,

    Saya baru saja install XAMPP 1.7, tapi kenapa ya MySQL servernya gak mau start. Setiap kali saya start dari XAMPP control panel, Windows selalu error dan katanya mysqld.exe harus ditutup. Tolong pencerahannya, terima kasih

  • admin Says:
    March 1st, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    Install ulang ajah mas, ato cek di firewallnya. Pastiin koneksi mysql gak di blok ato ada duplikat sevice di Administration Tools >> Service

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  • nana Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    saya da coba install joomla 1.5 di fedora, tapi giliran di run websitenya, eror, ” tidak menemukan driver database” itu kenapa ya ? mohon pencerahannya.

    yang pasti, mysql, php nya da diinstall di server fedora tersebut.

    TQ

  • admin Says:
    August 4th, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    @nana
    Di ubuntu-ku ndak pernah bermasalah.
    Coba cek apakah sudah jalan service-nya. kalo belum jalankan (start) atau restart ajah

    su
    /etc/init.d/mysql start ATAU /etc/init.d/mysql restart

    Kalo ndak solve, reinstall mysql-nya

  • nama domain Says:
    April 13th, 2010 at 1:38 pm

    Saya tahu website ini dari search engine dan setelah di baca artikel yang anda suguhkan benar-benar bermutu dan layak untuk di baca ^^



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