FIRST STEP: TO DOWNLOAD AND UNZIP JOOMLA

Download the last version of Joomla from www.joomlaspanish.org (spanish version) or from www.joomla.org. It weighs about two megas.

Unzip the file that you finish downloading. You must raise this folder your habitual server of hosting. It´s advisable that rename so that the name is not too long. Call it joomla if it doesn´t desire to you to be too original.

Within this folder you would have to see something thus:

SECOND STEP: UPLOAD THE FOLDER TO SERVER

Once unziped, it uses a program client FTP (some examples: NICO FTP, Smart FTP, WS_FTP) to directly lodge the complete folder in your server or upload using Dreamweaver. The first option is recommendable, will give less errors you.

A small trick is to upload the whole folder little by little. That is to say, folder a folder (administrator, mambots, templates, etc.), since if it gives errors you while you upload it, will give failures you when executing itself later and you will have to begin yet of zero… You have to upload the complete folder, respecting its structure of archives. Warned you are…

It´s not either bad idea to close the rest of programs while, specially those of P2P (Emule, ares, skype, etc.)

Depending on your speed of connection process it can last minutes. (In fact, enough short while costs…)

Useful note:

You can directly upload to this folder the root directory (it´s generally public_html or www). If it beams thus, you have be present that your Joomla site will be seen directly from www.yourdomain.com.

Also you can install Joomla within some specific directory, creating it first and soon uploading the folder within that directory, for example: public_html/joomla or www/joomla. In this way your site will be seen in www.yourdomain.com/joomla.

THIRD STEP: TO CREATE THE DATABASE FOR JOOMLA

This step will be most complex, if you have never created a database on your hosting.

It enters the Control Panel of your hosting(you will need the name user and the keys of your hosting, facilitated by your company of hosting at the moment for contracting it).

It looks for something as “Databases MySql”. If your hosting doesn´t support php and MySql you have a problem…

It creates a new database with the name that you choose:

It will generally appear a warning announcing that the BBDD has been created correctly.

Now you have to assign a user to the database created and to authorize all the leave to him:

Important note:

If you don´t have any created user, you will have to create one from this same Control Panel. It´s as simple as to choose a name of user and a password. It points well these data, will be to you of utility later.

FOURTH STEP: TO EXECUTE JOOMLA (finally…)

Have you upload the folder correctly? It´s not easy… Be sure well.

Now it sees the location where you have uploaded it. If you made in the folder root, then it will be www.yourdomain.com. If it were in some subfolder, for example in “joomla”, it sees www.yourdomain.com/joomla. Automatically the installation will jump:

It appears a screen of verification. If you have made it all good up to here, will appear all green, cheers!

A common error is that the file configuration.php is not “writeable”. You would have to change the permissions in your hosting.

So that Joomla works correctly needs to be able to accede and/or to write in certain archives and/or folders. If it appears “it cannot be written” you need to change to the permissions of this file and/or folder to allow that Joomla can write in him.

Click in following, above to the right. The following screen is not more than the acceptance of the terms of the license. Again following.

Now it´s when they end our patience… We will see the following thing:

By order, in the first field (1) localhost writes, in the second and the third (2 and 3) name of user of the database that you have created in the previous step and its password. I said to you that you pointed that… In the quarter (4) the name of the database.

If it´s the first time that you install Joomla, it leaves the rest as it is. Click in following.

Note:

If you´re making a reinstalation (with idea to update the version of Joomla, I imagine) you will want to make a backup of the old tables. You would mark that check box

If you have filled up the fields well, you will see the following thing:

It chooses a title for your Web. You don´t worry, you will be able to change it soon. In the following screen be sure of which the routes to arrive at your home are correct (Joomla is very ready, will be fine), writes a mail direction so that Joomla communicates with you and chooses a password (that is good, admin or love is not worth…) for the administrator. Click in following

It points the password. And now, so and as you will read in screen, DELETE COMPLETELY
THE INSTALATION DIRECTORY.

Use the FTP program that you have used before to accede to your remote server

As soon as you delete it acceding to www.yourdomain.com (or where you have load it) you will see home of your page. Enter in www.yourdomain.com/administrator/index.php you will arrive at the administration of the site. User “admin”, and the password that you put to him.

You already have a Joomla. To see what you do with him…

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