How To Install Joomla 1.5 In My Localhosy (my Own Computer) Windows Xp?
hi all
this is my first time working with joomla , and would love to know how to install it on my windows xp pc ,
can you mention a step by step please
thanks
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Running and Testing Joomla Without a Hosting Account
You cannot download Joomla and try to run it on your computer like an exe file. It has to have a web server, which means you need to have a hosting account. Sounds obvious, but I have had a couple of people if they needed windows XP to run Joomla!
Now, before we shell out our hard earned money for a hosting account, there is something else you can do first. You can actually run a web server on your local computer, in other words, your desktop or laptop. This is known as having a localhost. It may sound like I just contradicted myself from the previous paragraph, but not quite. You cant “run” Joomla itself on your own computer, but you can install a localhost web server for it to “run on”.
What you need to pull this off is some software that runs Apache, PHP and MySQL on your computer. These are the same software packages that power websites. There are two popular ones, WAMP (www.wampserver.com/en/index.php) and XAMPP (www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) and they are both free (PGL license)
I am going to quickly run through setting up WAMP, not that this package is windows specific.
Download WAMP from the above link, and then install it. It will create a folder c:/wamp/www
Run WAMP, you should get a handy icon in your system tray:
You need the dial to be white to continue. Note if you run Skype, it interferes with WAMP and so you have to start WAMP without Skype running (and then start Skype if you need it)
Now open a browser and go to localhost (no “www”)
You should see the following page:
If you are not seeing this then you should stop and figure out why. You have to get this page before you can proceed. The WAMP site has some helpful troubleshooting FAQ’s and a forum.
You should see your folder called “Joomla” in the list of Your Projects. Click on that folder and you will get taken to that “website”.