Setting Up a Joomla CMS Site
Joomla is one of two CMS sites we review; the other is Drupal which is also the basis of our own sites.
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Most large scale internet hosts now provide facilities to set up your CMS and Blog sites automatically. In 1and1 they call it 'Click and Build' and the link for it is found in the user's Control Panel. Setting up your Joomla site is merely a process of following their menu through.
Ten minutes later you have your sit already set up and linked to your domain name. All you have to do is open your browser, type in your URL and there you are!
If not you will have to do it by hand, but no problem, the sequence is simple. Assuming you already have an Internet Hosting Provider and a Domain Name set up then
1. Set up your database on your Hosting site. If it's not clearly marked on their control panel as 'Databases' then check out something like MySQL Administration and follow through the sequence to create a new database. If you are given a choice of database types choose MySQL. Note the Database Name, User Name and Hostname of your new Database.
2. Now Google Joomla and go onto their home site (.org) and go through the process of downloading the zip file. Save it to a new directory used only for your new site.
3. Unzip the zipped file - it will normally end up in a sub-directory off your new directory.
4. Now go back onto your hosting provider's site, open up your account and look for 'Webspace Explorer. Open it up and you should see a page with two columns
a. On your left the directory structure of your home computer
b. On your right the directory structure of your account of you hosting account.
c. Click on files -> new folder and set up a new file on the host server with any name convenient to remember.
d. Move to the left hand side - your home computer - locate the unzipped Joomla material, enter the file - it will normally have an inner file, enter that as well. You should be confronted with a whole long list of files. Click on the top one then scroll down to the bottom of list and shift-click the last one. The whole list should light up.
e. Now right click and select Upload.
5. Breath a sigh of relief as the upload starts.
6. Once it finishes go back to your hosts Control Panel, select Domains, select the name of your new domain and set the 'Destination' to the name of the directory you set up in step 4c above.
7. Go back to your browser, type in the URL of your new site, and there you are!
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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