Install Joomla on hosting - it's easy

Choosing and installing already ready scripts(CMS), many users thus want to save on the creation of their site. However, often, however, there are questions about how to install Joomla on hosting, and so users are interested in what you need to enter and where.

Many hosting companies have a functional givingthe technical ability to install different scripts via the "Fantastico DeLux" program available only in CPanel, so it will be much easier and faster to download and install the Russian version of Joomla from the official site. In this case, there will not be any questions that often appear when using non-Russian versions.

Installation Joomla on hosting is carried out in several stages, but there is nothing complicated in it.

First you need to download the latest versionscript. For this you go to the official Joomla website and download a version from there in Russian. Here you can find answers to the questions about the installation, as well as the solution of the most common problems.

Before you start downloading Joomla to yourserver, you need to find out if it meets the requirements, such as PHP 4.2.x, MySQL 3.2.x, Apache 1.13.19. These are the basic characteristics (more "weak" versions are not allowed). It is necessary that PHP supports MySQL, XML and Zlib.

Further process called "Joomla installation on hosting" is written on the example of the Russian version of Joomla 1.5.15, however, it is quite correct for newer versions.

The next step is to load the archive intosection called "File manager" using the FTP client (or via CPanel). Then you need to unzip the archive on the server. To do this, you need to tick your archive and click the "Extract" button in the top menu, after which you can delete the archive.

To proceed to the process itself,designated as "installing Joomla on hosting", you need to open your site in the browser. This will automatically switch to the installation. When the "Joomla Installation" window appears on the computer screen, you need to select the language that will be used during the installation of the program (that is, Russian), and then click on the "Next" button located in the upper right corner.

The next step in the installation is to checksystem. At this stage, there should not be any items marked in red in the appeared window. To resolve them, you need to set permissions on some folders and files or make several modifications to the .htaccess or php.ini file. In case of the appearance of red-marked items, you need to return to the official Joomla site and look there for the solution of this problem or you can ask for help to the hoster. If all is well, then click on the "Next" button.

After all this, there is a license agreement, which you should read, then, again, click the "Next" button.

If until now most userseverything turns out, and the installation of jumla on hosting does not cause any questions, then from the next point in many they appear. You go into CPanel and open the "MySQL Databases", then create a database and a user account. It is necessary to "connect" the user to the database. After all this, continue with the setting by entering the data in the appropriate fields.

During the filling of the main fields, thethe following: site name, your e-mail, administrator password. You also need to click on the "Install" button in the "Install demo" field.

In order to install Joomla on the hosting was successful and safe, you must delete the "Installation" folder (since your site will not work in this case).