Activating Your Joomla Site
Marrying Your Site to Your Data Base
If you are lucky enough to be using a 'Click and Build' program from your Internet host you may be able to miss out on this stage, but for the rest of us the relief in seeing the first indications of our new site is tempered by the clear certainty that the technical struggle to get our site up and running has some way to run.
You may find that during this process a warning comes up saying that your browser is preventing 'cookies' running. You can correct this by clicking on the browsers 'tools ->options->security' and enabling cookies there.
Opening your Site
The first screen we see is a simple one. It asks us for the working language of the site. Make your choice and then click on 'next'Then comes a screen checking the setup of your hosting account. If it flags up and problems use your provider's 'help' facilities to clear it. Click on 'next'.
Then comes the agreement. Read it through and click on 'next' again.
Now the serious business, binding your site to its database so log into your account with your Internet Hosting Service and then:
Go to your control panel and look for a link to MySQL AdministrationFollow the links to set up a MySQL database and note the database name, host name, username and password (provided by you)Fill these values into the Joomla form and click 'next'.The next screen talks about your FTP - File Transfer Protocol - account. Go back to your Internet Hosting Provider account and look on the control panel for the FTP and click through. Set yourself up with a new 'user' account. Set the directory to '/.' Enter these values into the Joomla form and click 'enter'. That's the hard part done!
The next screens relate to you and your site. You can ignore the stuff about 'Site Migration' but we would advise you to load the 'Sample Data'. It makes everything much clearer as you build your site.
The last step in setting up your new site is to clear the 'Installation' directory that Joomla placed in your files on your host's server. So back to the control panel on your hosting account and look for 'WebspaceExplorer' and open it up. On the right hand side of the resulting screen you will find a directory called 'Installation'. Click on it and delete it.
Roger Webb is a retired CEO from Small and Medium Sized (SME) companies in the UK and Continental Europe. In thirty years' experience at life at the top he has been instrumental in turning around and setting up a number of specialist subsidiaries in Europe, Africa and beyond, in every case producing stable profits in some of the most testing corporate environments imaginable.
In retirement he has devoted most of his energies in developing a group of wiki sites devoted to helping others to set up eBusinesses. His current sites http://computer-virgin.net/ for new-starters and http://mywebtrade.net/ for those further along the trail are just part of those efforts.
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