Joomla – Content Mangement System

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Joomla! is an AMP-based Open Source Content Management System. Instead of competing with the rich and expansive features of Nuke, Joomla focuses on ease of use. Joomla! is a fork from the Mambo CMS which continues to exist with new developers. All previous Mambo developers now are working on Joomla!. Joomla! is the easiest CMS solution to build a custom theme for using Dreamweaver or Golive and it is also the easiest solution to train people to work with. If you need to build an interactive website and train people to manage it themselves, this might be the best solution.

Some of fantastic features include Google compatible URLs, online visual html editor, easy meta-data per page. Joomla! is also very extensible with custom modules and components including some of the most popular projects such as PHPBB2, Gallery, and others. Joomla! specific components are also extremely well-made including a very effective help desk system.

Joomla! is currently at version 1.0.12. The 1.0.x updates have refined the interface, adds some minor features and various bug and security fixes to Mambo 4.5.2.3. This is the final release of the 1.0 codebase. Joomla! 1.5 will be shipping later this year.

Note: Please do not respond with questions to this thread. If you have difficulties with your installation create a new thread in this forum forum, post at the Joomla! Forum, or contact me.

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Step 1: Download Joomla!

First, download Joomla! from the following link:

Joomla 1.0.12

Decompress the archive and move the resulting folder to your website directory, renaming it to reflect your goals for the website.

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Step 2: Create a database for Joomla

Using phpMyAdmin, create a new database for your website. If you install quite a bit of AMP based projects you may want to consider an effective naming convention. I suggest the following convention for database naming:

site_project

If you are making a website for “Pizza Town” using Joomla, this would leave you with:

pizzatown_joomla

This allows you to group databases by relationship in the alphabetical listing within phpMyAdmin.

Alternatively, you can download the MySQL GUI Tools for Mac OS X and use MySQL Administrator to create and manage your databases.

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Step 3: Set Ownership

Next, using the Terminal, change the owner of the Joomla! directory to www:

[code]sudo chown -R www
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Note: If you are running Joomla! on a hosted environment and not on a Mac server, you will need to check with your hosting provider on how to manage Joomla! permissions and file ownership.

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Step 4: Web Configuration

Now load up your new website url and you will see the installation page. Verify that there are no red warnings on the first page. Make changes as necessary within your php.ini file if you have incompatible settings.

A great way to manage your php.ini is through Webmin, which with the 1.32 release added support for managing the php.ini file.

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Step 5: MySQL Configuration

The next page asks about your MySQL setup. For host name give it “localhost” then give it the MySQL user name, password, and database you configured for the website. There are additional options you can choose such as loading the help data which might be helpful for learning Joomla.

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Step 6: Additional Web Setup Screens

The next screen asks you for a description of your site. This is followed by a screen that verifies information about your site and requests the email and password for the Administrator account.

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Step 7: Administration

You now can log into the front end or the administration back end of your Mambo website. Continue with the additional steps to add very useful features to Joomla for use with Firefox on Mac OS X.

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To take full advantage of Joomla! on Mac OS X you will want to download a copy of the Mozilla Firefox web browser along with JCE. JCE is an inline editor for Joomla.

Download JCE here:

JCE Mambot 1.1 beta 2

JCE Admin 1.1 beta 2

Log into your Joomla administration back end using Firefox or Safari and navigate under the “Installers” menu choose “Mambats”. Upload the Zip file for JCE. Do the same process for the admin module using the “Components” option.

You now can go under the “Components” menu to “JCE Admin” and to the submenu for “JCE Plugins”. Click on the “Install” button and you will have an opportunity to install additional plugins for JCE. Note that JCE has a mix of free as well as some Special Edition plugins that require payment. You can alternatively load the older JCE 1.0.5 version which has these features available for free.

Next go under the “Site” menu to “Global Configuration” and set your WIZIWYG editor to be “JCE”.

Other useful additions to Joomla! include a plethora of high quality templates, DocMan file download/upload systems, the Gallery integration module, SugarCRM, Events for calendaring, a6MamboHelpDesk, Awesom! Amazon store, and various BBS options including Loudmouth & Joomlaboard. Some of the more powerful solutions include Community Builder for integrating incredible features for driving a community based website. Community Builder also tightly integrates with other Joomla! components such as Joomlaboard, the YaNC Newsletter, private messaging systems for Joomla! and video and image components..

To turn Joomla! into a powerful rapid application development environment for interactive web applications, install Fabrik:

Fabrik

[sbjordal]

anyone know of a cool looking osx template for Mambo?

[Anonymous]

[QUOTE BY= ElgertS] Step 3: Set Ownership

Next change the owner of the Joomla directory to www:

[code]sudo chown -R www <your_joomla_install>

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Please – – Exactly how does one go about doing this?? Also, am having problems with "session path writeable" = = how do you set the permissions for this?? And one more ting – – Please – – according to the pre-install check, "display Errors" + "Magic Quotes GPC" both need to be "ON" – – I’ve been through the php.ini file – – I can’t figure out how to turn it on. Can you PLEASE help?

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[QUOTE BY= ElgertS] PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Joomla is an AMP-based Open Source Content Management System. Instead of competing with the rich and expansive features of Nuke, Joomla focuses on ease of use. Joomla is a fork from the Mambo CMS which continues to exist with new developers. All previous Mambo developers now are working on Joomla. Joomla is the easiest CMS solution to build a custom theme for using Dreamweaver or Golive and it is also the easiest solution to train people to work with. If you need to build an interactive website and train people to manage it themselves, this might be the best solution.

Some of fantastic features include Google compatible URLs, online visual html editor, easy meta-data per page. Joomla is also very extensible with custom modules and components including some of the most popular projects such as PHPBB2, Gallery, and others. Joomla specific components are also extremely well-made including a very effective help desk system.

Joomla is currently at version 1.0.3. This update refines the interface, adds some minor features and various bug fixes to Mambo 4.5.2.3.

Note: Please do not respond with questions to this thread. If you have difficulties with your installation create a new thread in the Special Ops forum, post at the <a href="http://www.joolma.org/">Joomla</a&gt; Forum, or <a href="http://www.sollos.com/">contact me.</a>[/QUOTE]<font color=orange></font>

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[QUOTE BY= ElgertS] PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Joomla is an AMP-based Open Source Content Management System. Instead of competing with the rich and expansive features of Nuke, Joomla focuses on ease of use. Joomla is a fork from the Mambo CMS which continues to exist with new developers. All previous Mambo developers now are working on Joomla. Joomla is the easiest CMS solution to build a custom theme for using Dreamweaver or Golive and it is also the easiest solution to train people to work with. If you need to build an interactive website and train people to manage it themselves, this might be the best solution.

Some of fantastic features include Google compatible URLs, online visual html editor, easy meta-data per page. Joomla is also very extensible with custom modules and components including some of the most popular projects such as PHPBB2, Gallery, and others. Joomla specific components are also extremely well-made including a very effective help desk system.

Joomla is currently at version 1.0.3. This update refines the interface, adds some minor features and various bug fixes to Mambo 4.5.2.3.

Note: Please do not respond with questions to this thread. If you have difficulties with your installation create a new thread in the Special Ops forum, post at the <a href="http://www.joolma.org/">Joomla</a&gt; Forum, or <a href="http://www.sollos.com/">contact me.</a>[/QUOTE]<font color=orange></font>

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