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Tutorial Text
- In this tutorial we will be installing Joomla using cPanel and the cPanel file manager.
- Begin by uploading the Joomla tar.gz file to your website.
- Browse to the file on your harddrive.
- Double click the file to upload.
- Click Upload to upload the file.
- You can now see your file has been uploaded
- Click the file name to see a list of options for the file.
- We want to extract the file.
- A new window will open verifying the extracted files.
- Now point your browser to the site/folder you have uploaded Joomla to.
- Check the settings for your files on this page. The most important is to make sure all of the appropriate files/folders are writable.
- If you make changes to your settings click Check Again to refresh the page. When you are ready to install click Next.
- This page has a copy of the GPL license. Click Next to continue.
- On this page we will input the database settings. We need to go back to cPanel to create the database.
- Click Manage MySQL to create the database
- Type the database name and click Add Db.
- You database has been created. Click Go Back to create the database user.
- Enter the username and password and click Add User.
- Your database user has been created. Click Go Back to associate the user with the database.
- Select the appropriate user and database and click Add User to Db.
- The user can now access the database. We can now switch back to the Joomla installer.
- Enter the database info you just created.
- You can change any database import setting you need now.
- Click Next to continue the installation.
- Click OK to confirm your database settings.
- Enter a name for your site.
- Click Next to continue the installation
- Enter your email address and the password you want. Joomla creates a default password automatically.
- If you want to change the permissions settings you can do that here.
- Click Next to continue the installation.
- Joomla has now been installed. We need to go back to the file manager to delete the installation folder.
- Click the installation folder.
- Delete the folder.
- The folder has now been deleted. We can switch back to Joomla.
- Click View Site to see your newly installed site.
- Here is your newly installed Joomla site.
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