Use Joomla! 1.5 on your own computer
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It may seem a little weird to run a website on a computer by itself which is not seen over the internet. It is, however, very useful to be able to learn and experiment on your own machine - not least because you can view the backend and also the files.
Background[edit]
Experience needed[edit]
Not everyone using this Manual will have enough experience to feel comfortable doing this. You need to know a little about computing, for example:-
- Know where files are located on your computer and be able to create folders
- You can download something from a website and save it in an appropriate place
- You will not panic if you do not understand a concept!
Experienced developers and people with programming experience will be fine. If in doubt - follow the instructions and try it!
Links to Joomla!'s Quick Start Guide and an introduction to the sample data[edit]
The instructions here make use of the very useful Quick Start Guide. Make sure you look at this as well as this tutorial.
http://help.joomla.org/ghop/feb2008/task048/joomla_15_quickstart.pdf This has help with installation and creating your own content.
and
http://community.joomla.org/august-2008/article/522-introductory-learning-joomla-using-sample-data.html This has details about the sample data and what you can learn from it.
Summary[edit]
There are three basic stages in doing this:-
- Downloading and installing some software that Joomla! needs to use to run locally. This is a web server called Apache, a database called mySQL and a scripting language called PHP. There are a few other things as well - which are downloaded together as one package called XAMPP.
- Downloading and installing Joomla!
- Configuring Joomla!