New To Joomla - Installing on Win7.64

[Severian]

Hello Guys,

Hoping you can help about a bit of a newbie.

I have been asked by my father to build him a website for his new business. I do have a basic understanding of html/Dreamweaver but decided I wanted to go the modern CMS route. After some investigation into the different options available I decided Joomla was the best out there.

I am looking to install Joomla locally on my Windows 7 64 bit PC. This is unfortunately were I start to get very confused about what to do next. I have read different things about WAMP? XAMPP? Microsoft Web Matrix?

Any advice on what I need to install would be massively appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[imanickam]

You could use WAMP Server. Once you installed WAMP Server, create a new directory (say mysite) under the directory \wamp\www and then unzip the Stable Full version of Joomla! into the new directory.

You could access the site by typing localhost/mysite

When you type localhost/mysite, the installation dialog would start. For the database connectivity use the username root and there is no password for the user name root. You can choose a database name. The hostname is localhost.

Review of the documents at http://docs.joomla.org/ would be of help.

It is better to have two sites (two installations of Joomla!) say mysite and mylearning. One you could install with NO SAMPLE DATA and another one with the SAMPLE DATA - LEARN JOOMLA!

The administrator URL for the site would be localhost/mysite/administrator

[sovainfo]

In order to run Joomla on your local PC it is required to turn it into a webserver and database server. See http://www.joomla.org/technical-requirements.html for which are supported. The majority is running apache on MySQL.

There are a lot of stacks like WAMP and XAMPP that provide you with Apache Mysql Php (AMP). They all provide the minimum to run Joomla.

Creating a site doesn't mean you are developing in PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript ....
There is quite a lot out there already. Look at extensions.joomla.org.

For developing for Joomla the minimum requirement is a code editor. Notepad will do, but Notepad++ is more convenient. Depending on the amount of development you might want to have a look at Microsoft Web Matrix or the more popular PHPStorm, Eclipse PDT or Netbeans. These IDE's

[Severian]

Thank you for your help guys.

I opted to install XAMPP, seems to be working just fine.

If anyone can point me towards some beginners Joomla tutorials that would be great!

[AMurray]

Documentation (Beginners) here: http://docs.joomla.org/Portal:Beginners.

[Alicia84]

Documentation (Beginners) here: http://docs.joomla.org/Portal:Beginners.

Was looking for that, thanks.

[Simon Bol Majok]

Step 1: Download the Joomla installation package Step 2: Upload the Joomla files to your server Step 3: Create a MySQL Database for Joomla to use Step 4: Go through the installation process