Installing and Working With Joomla

Installing and Working With Joomla

What is Joomla

Joomla is a content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques  and software design patterns,stores data in a MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.

http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla 

What's a content management system (CMS)?

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.

What are some real world examples of what Joomla! can do?

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:

• Corporate Web sites or portals
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
• E-commerce and online reservations
• Government applications
• Small business Web sites
• Non-profit and organizational Web sites
• Community-based portals
• School and church Web sites
• Personal or family homepages

Download Joomla

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

Installing Joomla 

here we are installing Joomla in App Server ( link to how to Install Joomla )

all you need is a Web server with PHP and MySQL. Most commercial hosts provide these as part of their basic package of services. Then download a copy of Joomla.  The Joomla Installation Manual (Download PDF) takes you through the installation process step by step, The Joomla Quick Start Guide (Download PDF) should get you running quickly, and the accompanying video is a nice resource.


Minimum System Requirements

To successfully install and use Joomla! you must have a fully operational Web server (Apache is the
optimum), a database (MySQL is the optimum) and the server side scripting language PHP together with specific modules that are activated within PHP for MySQL, XML

To Be Continued...