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How to install Joomla 3.8.12 on MX 17

To install Joomla 3.8.12 on MX 17

Joomla is a free, open-source, and popular content management system (CMS) that can be used to build online applications and websites. It uses a PHP application and back-end databases such as MySQL or MariaDB. The main benefit of using Joomla CMS is that it does not require significant technical skill or knowledge to manage. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Joomla on MX 17.

Prerequisites

Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )

Php installation with required following modules
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0  php7.0-common  php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap  php7.0-xml php7.0-intl  php7.0-cli  php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl

Installation

Download a Joomla package using the following URL

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-8-12/Joomla\_3-8-12-Stable-Full\_Package.zip?format=zip -O Joomla-3.8.12.zip
--2018-09-10 01:33:12--  https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-8-12/Joomla\_3-8-12-Stable-Full\_Package.zip?format=zip
Resolving downloads.joomla.org (downloads.joomla.org)... 72.29.124.146
Connecting to downloads.joomla.org (downloads.joomla.org)|72.29.124.146|:443... connected.
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.
Connecting to s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com (s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com)|54.231.168.208|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 13488771 (13M) \[application/zip\]
Saving to: ‘Joomla-3.8.12.zip’
Joomla-3.8.12.zip        100%\[==================================>\]  12.86M  1.13MB/s    in 13s     
2018-09-10 01:33:29 (1024 KB/s) - ‘Joomla-3.8.12.zip’ saved \[13488771/13488771\]

After Downloading extract the downloaded package

root@linuxhelp:~# unzip Joomla-3.8.12.zip -d Joomla-3.8.12
Archive:  Joomla-3.8.12.zip
  inflating: Joomla-3.8.12/LICENSE.txt  
  inflating: Joomla-3.8.12/README.txt  
   creating: Joomla-3.8.12/administrator/
   creating: Joomla-3.8.12/administrator/cache/
  inflating: Joomla-3.8.12/administrator/cache/index.html  
   creating: Joomla-3.8.12/administrator/components/
.
.
extracting: Joomla-3.8.12/templates/system/images/j\_button2\_readmore.png  
 extracting: Joomla-3.8.12/templates/system/images/j\_button2\_right.png  
 extracting: Joomla-3.8.12/templates/system/images/selector-arrow.png  
  inflating: Joomla-3.8.12/templates/system/index.php  
  inflating: Joomla-3.8.12/templates/system/offline.php  
   creating: Joomla-3.8.12/tmp/
  inflating: Joomla-3.8.12/tmp/index.html  
  inflating: Joomla-3.8.12/web.config.txt

Move the extracted file into the HTML directory

root@linuxhelp:~# mv Joomla-3.8.12 /var/www/

Navigate to the apache document root directory

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www/

Change ownership and permission of the as Joomla follows

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data Joomla-3.8.12
root@linuxhelp:/var/www# chmod -R 775 Joomla-3.8.12

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Joomla

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/joomla.conf
 ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/Joomla-3.8.12/
 AllowOverride All
Allow from all

Enable site access

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# a2ensite joomla.conf
Enabling site joomla.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

Disable default access

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

Enable rewrite module

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart

Restart the apache service to make the changes effect

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# service apache2 restart
\[ ok \] Restarting Apache httpd web server: apache2.

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL

http://

Configure the Site information and Admin user setup

Configure the Database setup as follows

After the configuration, you will see the following page as shown below

You will see the installation of Joomla

Access the login page from the options shown below

You can log in using the admin user credentials

After the Successful login, you will see the Admin dashboard of Joomla as shown below

You will see the version of Joomla

With this, the method to install Joomla 3.8.12 on MX 17 comes to an end.

Tag : Joomla MX Linux
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Q
How does Joomla work?
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How do I open Joomla?
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What is the stable PPA to be used for installing required PHP for Joomla?
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The stable repository to be used for including PHP on Joomla
# add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
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What is Joomla Application?
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Joomla is a free, open-source, and popular content management system (CMS) that can be used to build online applications and websites. It uses a PHP application and back-end databases such as MySQL or MariaDB.