joomla installation on ubuntu 14.04

 

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS.

We have to install LAMP stack first.

Download latest version  from joomla website

http://www.joomla.org/download.html

it a zip 10 MB appor file . Extract it.

Move to that file to ubuntu server using WinSCP

# mv joomla-*** to /var/www/joomla

Database initialization

mysql -u root -p

Here we are adding database=joomla user=joomlauser and password=joomla:

CREATE DATABASE joomla;

CREATE USER joomlauser@localhost;

SET PASSWORD FOR joomlauser@localhost= PASSWORD(“joomla”);

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON joomla.* TO joomlauser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘joomla’;

Further moving ahead:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

 

chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/joomla
chmod -R 755 /var/www/joomla

Go to the url ,installation begins