Joomla Installation the Easy Way

Installation of Joomla may be easy or hard. It really depends on the competency and preferences of the Joomla webmasters. You may hire a Joomla expert to install it for you at $19 or you do it yourself.

If you are a new webmaster and really want to understand the structure of Joomla, then by installing Joomla the manual way, you can study and observe how is the Joomla being installed and from the steps you can understand Joomla, more or less. However, this will take times before you understand and install the Joomla for yourself.

There are many tutorials on the internet teaching you on Joomla, you can easily find one to learn, but most of the Joomla installation tutorials do not explain why and why it is being done. Let me guide you on this, once you fully understand step-by-step complete process, you can easily install one for yourself.

Step 1: Get your Joomla files ready. First, you need the Joomla scripts / software from Joomla website (www.joomla.com). It is normally in a compressed format, eg. .zip or .tar.gz Then you have to upload the file to your webhosting server. There are 2 ways to upload the files to your server.

1. Upload the compressed format; unzip using the File Manager by hosting account.

2. Extract compressed format on your PC; upload all of the extracted files to your hosting account.

The directory should be your root directory (public_html) eg. public_html\(all the extracted files are here)

Step 2: Create MySQL Database Joomla is running on MySQL database, so you need to create a MySQL Database for your Joomla system.

After Step 1 and Step 2 are done, then by using your favorite browser, you need to point to your Joomla installation directory and install the file. Do not worry, it is a very easy step-by-step point and click process. You may refer it here: http://help.joomla.org/content/view/39/132/

By doing so, you are linking your files with your MySQL database together.

After the process is completed, you may need to remove the installation folder for security purposes. Then try to find a professional free Joomla templates and apply it on your website.

Important Notes: There is another easy way to install Joomla that you may need to know if you want to install your Joomla fast, perhaps it is just in one minute. You can always refer to the Joomla Installation Video Tutorial here.

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