CIS 764 Database Design – Step By Step Tutorial about CMS

Implementing Joomla! CMS System

By Bakor Kamal

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System Requirements:

These are the minimum requirements needed before installation of Joomla! can be successful.

* PHP 4.2.x or above - http://php.net

* MySQL 3.23.x or above - http://mysql.org

* Apache 1.3.x or above - http://httpd.apache.org

Step 1: Prepare the MySQL database by going to PHPMyAdmin and create a new database by

using a command such as: CREATE DATABASE test;

Step 2: Download the latest Joomla! version from the following site

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/ and extract it to your local machine.

Step 3: Open the local directory where you uncompressed the Joomla! and copy the file

configuration.php-dist. Rename the copied file to configuration.php, and open it in the text

editor. Change the following:

* ---------------------------------------------------------------

* Database configuration section

* ---------------------------------------------------------------

/* Database Settings */

var $dbtype = 'mysql'; // Normally mysql

var $host = 'localhost';// This is normally set to localhost

var $user = 'bakor'; // MySQL username

var $password = 'pass';// MySQL password

var $db = 'test'; // MySQL database name

Step 4: Open the directory installation->sql->mysql. Open the file joomla.sql in your editor and

edit the database table prefix. Use the Find and Replace command of your editor and enter #__

(hash double-underscore) in the Find field and jos_ in the Replace field and select Enter. Save

the file ensuring this is done with UTF-8 NO BOM encoding only.

Step 5: Upload the Joomla! directories and files to the Web root directory or named sub-

directory of your Web server, including the newly created configuration.php file, using an FTP

client.

Step 6: Create the database by import the joomla.sql data in PHPMyAdmin as illustrated in the

following picture:

After the data is successfully installed you will notice that the Tables are now displayed in the

left hand pane of the PHPMyAdmin interface. And see the following message:

Import has been successfully finished, 136 queries executed.

You have now successfully manually created your Joomla! Web site. To verify this open your

browser and enter the address (in this tutorial the address will be

http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~bakor/tutorial/ )

Step 7: Create the primary administrator user account by going to PHPMyAdmin and go to the

SQL tap and inter the following SQL command:

INSERT INTO `joo2_users` VALUES (62, 'Administrator', 'admin',

'bakor@ksu.edu', '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3', 'Super

Administrator', 0, 1, 25, '2005-09-28 00:00:00', '2005-09-28 00:00:00',

'', '');

INSERT INTO ` joo2_core_acl_aro` VALUES

(10,'users','62',0,'Administrator',0);

INSERT INTO ` joo2_core_acl_groups_aro_map` VALUES (25,'',10);

Step 8: Enter yoursitename/administrator into the address box of your browser (in this case it

will be http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~bakor/tutorial/administrator/ ), and the following screen will

be displayed:

After you login select User Manager:

Then click on the Administrator name and edit the details to your own preferences paying

particular attention to the password and the e-mail address:

Step 9(Optional): you can install sample data to your website so you can see the possible data

layouts in your website. This can be done by going to PHPMyAdmin and import the

sample_data.sql file which is located in sql->mysql (This step is exactly as step number 5)

Finally you can now go to your main directory in your website to see the main page (you can see

an example in the following link: http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~bakor/new/ )