{"id":6359,"date":"2023-07-14T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:38:27","slug":"how-to-install-joomla-step-by-step-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/how-to-install-joomla-step-by-step-tutorial","title":{"rendered":"How to install Joomla \u2013 step by step tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To install Joomla<\/strong> on our hosting, you must first download the installation file from the official Joomla.org<\/strong> website by clicking on the “Download Joomla!<\/em>” button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I put a Joomla file on a server?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We assume that you already have a purchased hosting with cPanel management panel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are faced with the choice of performance-proven hosting, compare our <\/strong>packages<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All descriptions in this guide are based on Smarthost.eu hosting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After downloading the file, enter the cPanel<\/strong> by going to the web address: www.customer-domain.eu\/cpanel, where we replace “customer-domain” with the address of our domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After logging into cPanel, we click on the “File Manager<\/em>” button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the file manager has loaded, we click on the “Upload<\/em>” button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We then click on the “Select File<\/em>” button and in the newly opened window we navigate to the folder on our computer that contains our downloaded Joomla<\/strong> file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We select this file (zipped and still in .zip format), and then approve it to be placed on the server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another way is to click and hold the left mouse button on a file on our computer and then drag the file into the browser window in the “Drop files here to start uploading” box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the file has been uploaded to the server, we click on the “Reload<\/em>” button (box 1) to refresh the view of our files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We click once on the “Joomla<\/em>” file (highlighted in blue) and then on the “Extract<\/em>” button (box 2) to extract it to the server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the newly opened window, we type “\/public_html\/customer-domain.eu” (field 1 – type without the inverted commas). This refers to the folder on our server that contains the files that are loaded on entering our website.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We click on the “Extract Files(s)” button (box 2) to start extracting. Once the files have been extracted, click on the “Close” button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to properly install and configure Joomla?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After preparing the files on the server, we can start installing Joomla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter the address of our website in the web browser, e.g. www.customer-domain.eu<\/em>. After entering the address, if everything was successful, we should see the Joomla installation screen, where we provide the information necessary for installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Setup Site Name” field (box 1) enter the name of the site chosen by us (example: joomla_client).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After completing the “Setup Site Name” field, click the Setup Login Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the field “Enter the real name of your Super User<\/em>” (box 2) enter our nickname or name and surname.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the field “Set the username of the Super User account<\/em>” (box 3) enter the name of the user who will manage our website (example: joomla_client<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Set the password for your Super User account<\/em>” field (box 4) enter the login password to the administration panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last field (box 5) we enter our email address. It can be an external email (e.g. our email on gmail.com) or an email set up on our server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After completing all the required information, click on the “Setup Database Connection” button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the next step, complete the information about our database (guide “How to set up a new MySQL database?<\/a>“).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Select the database typ<\/em>e” field (box 1) make sure that “MySQLi<\/em>” is selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Either a username you created or a username provided by your host<\/em>” field (box 2) enter the name of the user assigned to our database (example: customer_database<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Either a password you created or a password provided by your host<\/em>” field (box 3) we enter the password of our database user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Enter the database name” field (box 4) enter the name of our database (example: customer_database<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After completing all the required information, click on the “Install Joomla” button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you have followed all the steps correctly, you should see a screen informing you that the installation was successful.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After clicking on the “Open Site” button, we will be transferred to our website. If “Open Administrator” is checked, we will go to the login screen of the administration panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To log in to the administration panel at a later time, enter the address of our website in the web browser and add “\/administrator<\/em>” to it (example: www.customer-domain.eu\/administrator).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Username” field (box 1) enter the name of the user managing our website (example: joomla_client).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Password” field (box 2) enter the password of the user managing our website. Click the “Log in” button (box 3) to log in after entering the data.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After logging in, the administration panel of our website will open, where we can start building our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To install Joomla on our hosting, you must first download the installation file from the official Joomla.org website by clicking on the “Download Joomla!” button. How do I put a Joomla file on a server?Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437,1021,427],"tags":[318,1143,1142,298,1134],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpanel-pl","category-guides","category-joomla-pl","tag-cpanel-hr","tag-how-to-install","tag-how-to-install-joomla","tag-joomla-hr","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6423,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}