Thanks so much, Miark.
I will try these in the near future. This has always been the way I
wanted to do it, but had only resorted to XAMPP to avoid configuration
headaches, at least for now - I've only just transitioned from doing web
development in Windows XP. For now, I'll stick to XAMPP till I get the
pressing deadlines out of the way. I reverted to the version of XAMPP
that uses MySQL 4, and everything's now working as it should. (Somebody
else told me Joomla seems to still not be compatible with MySQL 5. I'm
not sure if that is true, but my own (rather limited) experience seems
to validate that too.)
Anyway, thanks again.
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 13:19 -0500, Miark wrote:
> Abe,
>
> I've not used the XAMPP package, per se, but I have gotten
> Joomla to work on my machine, using standard Mandriva packages,
> and the Joomla download. Here are the directions I wrote for
> myself and others, although I never found anybody to add it to
> the twiki. It may or may not help, but I might as well get these
> on the 'Net somehow :-)
>
> Miark
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Installing Joomla! Content Management System
>
> Install the MySQL database server
>
> 1) Become root: su
> 2) Install MySQL: urpmi --auto MySQL MySQL-client
> 3) Set MySQL to run at startup: chkconfig --add mysqld
> 4) Start MySQL: service mysqld start
>
> Install a web server with PHP support
>
> 1) Install Apache web server with PHP support: urpmi --auto apache-mod_php
> 2) Install MySQL support for PHP and XML: urpmi --auto php-mysql php-mysqli
> php-xml
> 3) Set Apache to start on boot: chkconfig --add httpd
> 4) Start Apache now: service httpd restart
>
> Create a MySQL database for Joomla
>
> 1) Open MySQL client: mysql
> 2) Create an empty database for Joomla name "j": create database j;
> 3) Switch to MySQL's own database: use mysql;
> 4) Add Apache as a user: insert into user (user, host, password) values
> (apache, localhost, apachesPass);
> 5) Give apache permission to use the new j database: grant all in j.* to
> apache;
> 6) Though UNRELATED, give root a password for security:
> set password = password('rootsNewPass');
> 7) Exit with Ctrl-D
>
> Get and install Joomla
>
> 1) Download the latest Joomla tarball from www.joomla.org (1.0.4 as of this
> writing)
> 2) Change to the HTML directory: cd /var/www/html
> 3) Uncompress the Joomla untar xvzf /path/to/joomlaTarball
> 4) Give ownership of the Joomla files to Apache: chown -R apache.apache *
>
> Configure Joomla
>
> Point your browser to your web server (http://localhost) and follow
> Joomla's configuration instructions. When prompted for MySQL settings,
> use "localhost", "apache", and the password you you assigned to Apache
> (not the one you set for root). Then continue to follow the on-screen
> instructions to run Joomla and begin adding content.
>
>
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