How to install Joomla 3.8.11 on Ubuntu 18.04
To install Joomla 3.8.11 on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04.
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 CMS package using the following URL
root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-8-11/Joomla\_3-8-11-Stable-Full\_Package.zip?format=zip
--2018-08-18 00:10:06-- https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-8-11/Joomla\_3-8-11-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.
.
.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 13489214 (13M) \[application/zip\]
Saving to: ‘Joomla\_3-8-11-Stable-Full\_Package.zip?format=zip’
Joomla\_3-8-11-Stable-Fu 100%\[==============================>\] 12.86M 1.10MB/s in 13s
2018-08-18 00:10:22 (993 KB/s) - ‘Joomla\_3-8-11-Stable-Full\_Package.zip?format=zip’ saved \[13489214/13489214\]
After Downloading extract the downloaded package
root@linuxhelp1:~# unzip Joomla\_3-8-11-Stable-Full\_Package.zip?format=zip -d Joomla
Archive: Joomla\_3-8-11-Stable-Full\_Package.zip?format=zip
inflating: Joomla/LICENSE.txt
inflating: Joomla/README.txt
creating: Joomla/administrator/
creating: Joomla/administrator/cache/
inflating: Joomla/administrator/cache/index.html
creating: Joomla/administrator/components/
.
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extracting: Joomla/templates/system/images/j\_button2\_readmore.png
extracting: Joomla/templates/system/images/j\_button2\_right.png
extracting: Joomla/templates/system/images/selector-arrow.png
inflating: Joomla/templates/system/index.php
inflating: Joomla/templates/system/offline.php
creating: Joomla/tmp/
inflating: Joomla/tmp/index.html
inflating: Joomla/web.config.txt
Move the extracted file into the HTML directory
root@linuxhelp1:~# mv Joomla /var/www/
Navigate to the apache document root directory
root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/
Change ownership and permission of the as Joomla CMS follows
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data Joomla
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 Joomla
Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Joomla CMS
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/joomla.conf
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/Joomla/
AllowOverride All
allow from all
Enable site access
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2ensite joomla.conf
Enabling site joomla.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2
Disable default access
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2
Enable rewrite module
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl restart apache2
Restart the apache service to make the changes effect
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart 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 as follow
Configure the Database setup as follows
Verify the compatibility for installing Joomla as shown below
Change the value inside the php.ini configuration as follows
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
\[..\]
Output\_buffering = Off
\[..\]
Restart the apache service to make the changes effect
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart apache2
After the configuration, you will see the following page as shown below
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 3.8.11 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.
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