Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing Joomla On Local Computer (xampp)

A forum with Tips, tricks and small tutorials.

Moderators: mcsmom, unixboymd

Forum rules
Post Reply
freelancenow
Joomla! Fledgling
Joomla! Fledgling
Posts: 4
Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:48 pm
Contact:

Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing Joomla On Local Computer (xampp)

Post by freelancenow » Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:09 pm

This is a simple tutorial to installing the joomla on local computer using xampp.

1. Download the Joomla Package, Unpack it.

2. Download the xampp and install it, start it. When the control panel of xampp
showing apache and mysql is running you can go to next step.

3. Show your browser to "http://localhost" or "http://127.0.0.1", now you will see
the start page of xampp. Select your language, click the PhpMyAdmin from the left menu.

4. Create a database, lets name it "joomla".

5. Create a directory for joomla site in side the "htdocs" directory of joomla, lets name the directory "myjoomla" .

6. Copy all the unpacke joomla files inside the directory you have just created (myjoomla).

7. Show your browser to "http://localhost/myjoomla", now you will see the installtion page of joomla.

8. Click Next and enter the database details
Host name : localhost
Database name : joomla
User Name : root
Password : just lieve it empty

9. Click Next, enter you email and password for the backend administrator

10. Click next, Now it is almost complete, it says delete the installation directory, ok delete it which is in the myjoomla directory inside the "htdocs" directory.

11. Congratulation!  ;Dit is done, show your browser to  "http://localhost/myjoomla now you will see your joomla site.

Tell me if you have any problem, I will watch this topic.
http://www.freelancenow.cn
Get a freelance for your work and save your time, it is much cheaper than you thought.

Artress
Joomla! Fledgling
Joomla! Fledgling
Posts: 3
Joined: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:43 pm

Re: Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing Joomla On Local Computer (xampp)

Post by Artress » Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:30 pm

Hey, umm...you lost me on step 5? I don't see a directory or htdocs no where  :-[

This is where I am at after step 4

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z56/Artress/data.jpg

freelancenow
Joomla! Fledgling
Joomla! Fledgling
Posts: 4
Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:48 pm
Contact:

Re: Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing Joomla On Local Computer (xampp)

Post by freelancenow » Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:36 pm

The directory of "htdocs" is inside of the xampp directory.
http://www.freelancenow.cn
Get a freelance for your work and save your time, it is much cheaper than you thought.

Artress
Joomla! Fledgling
Joomla! Fledgling
Posts: 3
Joined: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:43 pm

Re: Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing Joomla On Local Computer (xampp)

Post by Artress » Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:53 pm

Oh ok! Got it. =)

Artress
Joomla! Fledgling
Joomla! Fledgling
Posts: 3
Joined: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:43 pm

Re: Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing Joomla On Local Computer (xampp)

Post by Artress » Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:04 am

Yay! I did it! lol Thank you.

freelancenow
Joomla! Fledgling
Joomla! Fledgling
Posts: 4
Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:48 pm
Contact:

Re: Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing Joomla On Local Computer (xampp)

Post by freelancenow » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:28 pm

Glad to know that it helped you.
http://www.freelancenow.cn
Get a freelance for your work and save your time, it is much cheaper than you thought.

das4132

Re: Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing Joomla On Local Computer (xampp)

Post by das4132 » Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:55 pm

i all ready using xampp for development. after this how can i upload to live server??????? ??? ???

huzefa
Joomla! Fledgling
Joomla! Fledgling
Posts: 1
Joined: Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:20 pm

Re: Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing Joomla On Local Computer (xampp)

Post by huzefa » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:56 pm

hii.
i have followed your tutorial, but not able to start the installation of joomla.
i have installed the xampp successfully, and followed your step.
but one error is coming.

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
01/02/08 07:55:42
Apache/2.2.6 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.5

plz suggest me any option.


Post Reply