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Installing Joomla with Xampp (local host sever)

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Installing Joomla with Xampp



Welcome to our site. If you want to install Joomla with an offline server (XAMPP) and start building web-site. But you are new, and don’t know how to install it. Then this is a platform for you. Using Joomla you can make a powerful website but only need proper knowledge about Joomla. Stay with us and learn more.
But before we proceed you need to have an offline server (XAMPP) in your system or you can install it here XAMPP. And run it. How to install XAMPP .
Having believe that you have install your xampp, just kindly download the new version of Joomla Here JOOMLA

The Joomla  package file would be a zip file. Once you download and saved it on your hard disk, you need to upload it to the local Apache server on your computer. To do that, you get to move it from your browser download folder, to your XAMPP document root folder. By default XAMPP will be installed to “c:\xampp” and all local web site folders will go into the folder “c:\xampp\htdocs”. If your XAMPP was installed to the default document root directory, go and create a folder named ‘joomla’ and unzip the Joomla package file into it, so all Joomla files can be found in the folder “c:\xampp\htdocs\joomla”.
Create  Database  for  Joomla  Installation
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Double click on your xampp icon on your desktop background to run the offline server
Run XAMPP app on your computer, you will see its control panel like this:


Start Apache and MySQL servers from the above control panel. Click the Admin button in the second row (same row with MySQL), you will open http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ in a new brwoser tab or window. See below screenshot.


It is time for us to Install Joomla

It’s time to install Joomla on your PC. Visit http://localhost/joomla/ on your browser, it will redirect to http://localhost/joomla/installation/index.php and you can start installing Joomal using its web installer. See below figure.
Basically there are three steps to install Joomla into your computer:
(1) main configuratin of your Joomla site;
( 2) database configuration;
(3) Finalize Joomla installation.
Now we are going to do it step by step


First Step          Main Configuration
    • Select Language:  Choose your own language in the drop-down menu, for example, “English (United Kingdom)”
    • Site Name:  Enter the name of your site, for example, “learnerstools  Site”
    • Description:  Enter the description of your site example “A learning platform”
    • Site Offline:  Choose status for your website when you access to your site: Click “Yes” for “offline” and “No” for “online”
    • Admin Email:  Enter your valid email address you want to use for your site
    • Admin Username:  Enter “admin” as default or a custom name
    • Admin Password:  Enter your own password
    • Confirm Admin Password:  Re-type your password
    • Click “Next” to continue Step 2


Second Step .    Database Configuration

    • Database Type:  Select MySQLi
    • Host Name:  Enter “localhost”
    • Username:  Enter “root” or the user name given by the host
    • Password:  let it blank
    • Database Name:  enter the name of the database you created above using phpMyAdmin, for example “joomla” as shown in above screenshot
    • Table Prefix: let it generate automatically
    • Old Database Process: Click “Backup” to backup tables from former Joomla! installation, or “Remove” to delete these tables
    • Click “Next” to continue Step 3





Third Step .  Overview
Finalization: You can choose installing sample data or not, by clicking on corresponding selection.
Overview: This step is to review all information you configured in step 1. After checking,    you click “Install”.
When installation finishes, you just need to click the button “Remove installation folder” button to complete the installation process. After that, you can either click on “Site” to see your newly created or “Administrator” to access the administration area.





When installation finishes, you just need to click the button “Remove installation folder” button to complete the installation process. After that, you can either click on “Site” to see your newly created or “Administrator” to access the administration area.




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