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You may want to creat an installation file that includes specific extensions in addition to the core Joomla!. You might want to do this if you have or plan to create many sites that all use the same basic suite of extensions.

1 - Install Joomla as normal
2 - RENAME instead of delete installation folder (you will need to add it to the zip)
3 - Install all extentions as per instructions for each.
4 - Backup the database and name the file joomla.sql and place into the sql folder of the installation folder you renamed.
5 - Rename the installation folder to installation from whatever you renamed it.
6 - Zip all files and folders (making sure to maintain file and folder structure in the zip) but do not zip the configuration.php that was created during install.
7 - Upload that zip and extract all the files to the webroot of the target site.
8 - Install as normal
9 - check to see if there are any patches since the time you made this package and patch accordingly.
10 - Note that file permissions will not be retained by the zip so you will have to go through all the permission steps during install and patch as usual. And you will most likely have to edit the userlist and remove one of the Administrators.


10/14/06--Introduction added.