How to install Joomla! with XAMPP in 10 minutes
Posted on 11. Feb, 2009 by miguel in technology
A quick tutorial on how to install Joomla! CMS locally using XAMPP web server package.
Software needed
- Download XAMPP. A free and open source cross-platform web server package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages. [More information on Wikipedia]
- Download Joomla! A free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. [More information on Wikipedia]
Full installation process
A great video-tutorial by user slogen123 on Veoh. [Original source]
Step-by-step installation
- Install XAMPP. Service section: check “Install Apache as service” and “Install MySQL as service”.
- Extract Joomla! ZIP package and copy files and folders included to: (XAMPP installation directory)/htdocs/(yourproject)/
- Go to http://localhost/xampp/index.php on your web browser and select “phpMyAdmin” from the left menu.
- Enter a name for the database that will be used by Joomla! on the “Create new database” field.
- Go to “Server: localhost” on the upper breadcrumb and press then the “Privileges” tab.
- Select “Add a new user”. Enter your desired username+password and “localhost” for host field. If you’re going to use that user for administration tasks you can check all global privileges.
- Go to http://localhost/(yourproject) on your web browser to start Joomla! installator.
- Select your language for the installation process.
- Check that all the minimum requierements are working properly.
- Read the licence if you feel bored ;)
- On the database configuration page, enter username+password and database name previously defined. Also “localhost” for host name field.
- I won’t setup an FTP file system layer.
- On the main configuration page, it’s time to give a name to your website. You must enter an e-mail address and a password that will be used by “admin” user. There’s an options area below for migration procedures. You can also press “Install sample data” button if you don’t want to start your Joomla! project from scratch.
- Now Joomla! is installed and ready. Don’t forget to remove the installation directory. You’ll find your frontend at http://localhost/(yourproject) and access your administration area at http://localhost/(yourproject)/administrator, with user “admin” and password set on the previous step.
More information:
steve
Mar 22nd, 2009
Very useful tutorial. Thanks!
Andri
Jun 4th, 2009
Tq so much..
sam the computer moron
Jun 12th, 2009
THANKS for a nice succinct easy to understand explanation. SO many of these tutes start out like-first config your bin/ex virtual serve rate sequence to WWC compliant standard and then maybe we can talk about security and configuring your firewall AHHHHHHHHHH
Thanks again!
piervi
Jun 17th, 2009
thank you, man! your tutorial is awesome! :-D
Miguel Sánchez
Jun 29th, 2009
Tocayo de nombre y apellido,
¡¡Mil gracias!!
aunque se podrían cambiar los 10 minutos a 2 ó 3.
Fácil y directo.
Great!
anjum
Jul 8th, 2009
Thank you very much . I am newbie for this kind of stuff but thank to you i am able to install joomla successful in my local pc Thanks :)
Maarten
Jul 10th, 2009
Very clear and made easy accessible for everyone.
Thanks mate.
Cheers.
Dilshad
Jul 16th, 2009
Thanks man,
I was not able to do it for 4 days and after seeing your tutorial it hardly took me half hour.
Thanks
KAT
Jul 20th, 2009
Actually this is very important to beginners !!! Thank you!!!
Shelby
Jul 20th, 2009
You are the man!!!
Awesome tutorial dude. Appreciate the time and effort you put into this.
Regards
Shelby
kaushal
Jul 23rd, 2009
Thanks A LOT
Louis
Jul 25th, 2009
Thanks,
but how do you make the database and joomla work together?
khaleel
Aug 5th, 2009
Hi any one know–
how to integrate joomla
“Used to link the joomla content management system to knowledge tree document management system. Once a user is logged into Joomla they can be automatically logged into knowledge tree”
Please reply me step by step procedure to
” khaleel.tsn@gmail.com“
Ripon Al Wasim
Aug 8th, 2009
This document for Joomla installation is really easy and understandable. Thanks
Joomla user
Aug 20th, 2009
excellent info.
piggy_pong
Aug 22nd, 2009
What a great job!!! This is a *very* complete tutorial!! Many compliments!! Other videos that I saw were not so detailed!
;) Byee
subrenna
Aug 25th, 2009
I have followed every step outlined here and I get the following when I start Step 4.
- I am told to remove the installation directory to continue with the installation of Joomla.
- After moving the installation dierctory, I get
Database error: Unable to connect to database: Couldnot connect to MYSQL.
Any suggestions
nonTREEs
Aug 26th, 2009
I downloaded the most recent versions of everything. The Xampp installer is tatally different and does not work according to this tutorial. Not that Im saying it doesnt work for anyone else. Its just diifferent for me. IT is supposed to ask me to select services I want to auto start. Thats not a feature in the new installer.
Sandy
Sep 4th, 2009
Excellent! Thanks so much. Everything worked as described … simple and effortless even for someone that has never worked with either of these programs. Cheers!!
kalai
Sep 5th, 2009
mam,
I need to install joomla 1.5.12 in xampp how is possible else tell me how to install joomla ….in windows.
Chunky
Sep 13th, 2009
Awesome info. Thanks dude!! You rock!!
sunny
Sep 15th, 2009
man your link sends to php 5.3 version uncompatible with joomla, please rectify to help nicely
Mustapha
Sep 18th, 2009
This tutorial is by the far the most easy to follow and direct for any body without any experience about xampp and joomla. I have done the process in just five minutes, by following your steps. No confusion, everything just worked. My problem though, is how to remove the installation directory. please reply, thanks.
Vivekanand
Sep 27th, 2009
Hi Admin,
This is awesome enough, thanks for your effort – it has helped me a lot in installing the Joomla in XAMPP.
Thank you very much!
Cheers!
Vivek
[http://www.developersnippets.com]
Jai
Sep 30th, 2009
hi.. where can I download this video? this is very useful, I want to use this in my class.. please send the link to my email.. tnx
Jamilah
Oct 9th, 2009
This video has been very helpful. Even though I had to uninstall, and re-install, let’s count…1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times; each time this video was vital to getting up and running… I couldn’t agree with Mr. Einstein more… The only source of knowledge is experience. :-)
Ioana
Oct 18th, 2009
Hello,
Can someone help me ?
I can, t finish the instalation .I had done 3 steps ( even every time I get the same error Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
18/10/2009 02:49:10
Apache/2.2.12 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.12 OpenSSL/0.9.8k mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.0 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0
after I log on I can acces it ),
When I want to finish the instalation I can.t ,
Thank you !
sally arnett
Oct 18th, 2009
great tutorial! very easy to understand. thanks for this.
response to IOANA – are you changing your url to http://localhost/yourfolder?
After the installation, and once you have removed the installation directory, the url http://localhost/yourfolder/installation/index.php remains and you get an Object not found.
hope this helps
Jay
Oct 19th, 2009
Hey Thanks a lot man..!!!
This tutorial helps me a lot….
But I have another problem….
In My laptop I tryed to install joomla but after removing installation directory ,I m redirected to blank page!!! not to admin login!!!
can u tell me what is the exact problem!!!
designthirsty
Oct 20th, 2009
awesome! thanx!!!
Joe
Oct 23rd, 2009
Great Stuff,
Thanks a lot for the tutorial.
Jesper
Nov 2nd, 2009
Great tutotial. Really helpful!
chandra sekar
Dec 19th, 2009
Can anyone help? after installing joomla, i typed
http://localhost/myproject/administrator.(where myproject is my project folder which is empty). I got an error sayin ‘Object Not found’
Thanks in advance
Alex
Dec 21st, 2009
Thanks! After days trying finally a tutorial that works for newbies! Thanks!
black_howling
Dec 30th, 2009
You soo totally rawk!!!..Just the information that I was looking for. Well since im a noob. 10 min was an understatement..LOL.
Never the less, this is good shit!
al-muhandis
Dec 30th, 2009
i got some errors after fourth step,
i did everything told, than some error text appeared
“Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL”
any ideas?
regards
JT
Jan 2nd, 2010
It was the easiest and helpful way to install joomla on xampp. Cheers mate and Happy New Year.
jen
Jan 11th, 2010
Hi – I have screwed up everything big time – can you help me start over and uninstall xamp.
Somehow the mysquel install file was deleted
Gbenga
Jan 15th, 2010
Pls how can i remove the installation directory?
ciaran collins
Feb 1st, 2010
Thanks for the tutorial. You sound like a nerd.
Pryncess Pryasyah Andryna
Feb 8th, 2010
Thanks…..ur tutorial very awesome!!!!
ex3m
Feb 8th, 2010
thnx man a lot
Mathy
Feb 8th, 2010
Thnx this was verry helpfull
even for a dutch man
;-)
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Rishabh
Feb 17th, 2010
Amazing dude! great tutorial!
Rayhan
Feb 21st, 2010
This tutorial is lol!
kattmarl
Feb 28th, 2010
FYI – originally tried installing with FIREFOX, and on second screen received:
Cookies do not appear to be enabled on your browser client. You will not be able to install the application with this feature disabled. Alternatively, there could also be a problem with the server’s session.save_path, if this is the case please consult your hosting provider if you don’t know how to check or fix this yourself.
I thought Firefox cookies were enabled by default? Checked, and they were. So I opened install path in Internet Explorer – Ah Ha!
IE showed an error relating to INTRANET security – if you click YES to allow… (I’m not sure what this is actually doing), IT WORKED!!!
And, you can use FIREFOX to continue again.
Hope this helps someone!
Hbb
Mar 2nd, 2010
terima kasih banyak atas petunjuknya………….
pine
Mar 7th, 2010
Thanks dude for this tutorial.
dob
Mar 8th, 2010
Thanks a lot!
This tutorial helped a lot…
Cheers.