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:
Raj
Mar 19th, 2010
Great piece of Tutorial…good work. Just to point out that the XAMPP did not work “out of the box” because of the 2 issues below:
1. phpadmin request that the MySQL be upgraded to 5.0.15 or later
2. The root username and password could not be validated .. therefore i got around it my setting the root username and password during my mysql upgrade and making sure that the root username and password matches in C:\xampp\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php
Thanks again Miguel
Hanzel
Mar 19th, 2010
Thanks! Very useful…
Brian Wilson
Mar 28th, 2010
Terrific tutorial, great job.
Kudos.
s.c.
Apr 1st, 2010
Thanks!!!
Mike
Apr 2nd, 2010
Thanks a lot very helpful to a numbbrain like me
Mink
Apr 2nd, 2010
Clear Tutorial. Thanks.
teknath pokharel
Apr 8th, 2010
thanks for info…very cool
delta
Apr 9th, 2010
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Joomla Website Developer
Apr 11th, 2010
This is an awesome tutorial. I followed along and everything went as planned.
This is a great tool. Thanks for taking the time to put together this tutorial. I will be blogging about this over on my blog: http://www.theturngroup.com/blog
sushant
Apr 19th, 2010
Thankx nice Tutorial
B Freeman
Apr 20th, 2010
Great tutorial, clear and easy to follow.
Thanks for sharing
f0under
Apr 27th, 2010
thanks lot
Spliff
May 1st, 2010
This concise readme works for xampplite too.
Thanks
Usman Nazir
May 7th, 2010
really a very nice and informative tutorial.i am new to joomla and xampp but i fount it very conveniant after watching this tutorial..great effort and thanks.
saint
May 14th, 2010
Awesome!
Thanks Miguel!
oufrii
May 15th, 2010
Thank you so much. You have no idea how grateful I am for this post. Absolutely Brilliant. Thank you.
SuperVillan
May 17th, 2010
Brilliant. Your instructions were smooth all the way. Thanks =D
Dilshan
May 19th, 2010
straight forward and easy to understand…. thanks…. :)
Manolo
May 25th, 2010
Thanks a lot. Smooth as the wind on each step
dagohoy
May 26th, 2010
very nice tutorial, you know what its really a great help cause I having a big problem with my apache configuration issue, again thanks
suresh mishra
May 29th, 2010
Thanks for joomal installation guide, i read and install joomla in my system, good suggession. I had tryed more time but not install xampp but when i found on you site joomla installation within 5 min. i insatalled joomla. So thanks
simon
Jun 2nd, 2010
I have installed xampp and joomla but I can not get to localhostthe error message says it is not available . do you have any suggestion what to do I appreciate your comment
please send to
saamazizam@yahoo.com.au
Thanks
Simon
AK
Jun 16th, 2010
Very Simple! useful information
Good Job!
I’m going to bookmark this page
Mukesh Mishra
Jun 21st, 2010
Thanks for the guideline….
Already bookmarked your page. Really Useful
Thanks
Mukesh
anil
Jul 4th, 2010
Thanks for the installation procedure….
anil
Jul 4th, 2010
simply super
athok
Jul 23rd, 2010
i’ve installed the xammp on my computer, when i want to create site with joomla at fourth step (database setting). i got trouble unable to connect to database in mysql…please how to solve this. may you don’t mind to send me by email. thanks
Adam
Jul 28th, 2010
Thanks for this tutorial, very straightforward and will be linking to you from my site http://www.biggsdesigns.com!
Gary
Aug 5th, 2010
A superb tutorial! Thank you for holding our hands in this installation!
Lisa
Aug 5th, 2010
Thank you! Very straight forward and useful. Definitely what I needed to know.
IceMan
Aug 26th, 2010
Thanks for this simple and useful info..
Miguel Angel
Aug 31st, 2010
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Very quick and easy! [:
Columbus Wedding Photographers
Sep 3rd, 2010
Thanks for another great post! Been reading you for awhile and you always come up with quality stuff!
mike harvey
Sep 7th, 2010
great info every easy to understand,but i cant get joolma to start i get 404 error
i have installed xampp in (c:/xampp) it starts ok)created db in phpmyadmin no problem
i am using joomla 1.5 this is a clean install on vista just installed vista too
what am i missing
any help.
thanks
Kumar
Sep 9th, 2010
i have downloaded xampp amd joomla as given instruction. But its not working. previously i was using Asp. Please help me out to work on joomla.