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Installation of a Joomla Template !!!

2009-05-14T01:17:00.001-07:00

In this description, you will learn the installation of a template for your Joomla website. Actually its a very simple process, what you have to do is just login into the administrator end of Joomla and go to the option "Extension/install-uninstall".

Then just browse the template from your computer/laptop and then click "upload File & install". Now your template is installed and its ready to use. For using the installed template go to "Extensions/Template Manager" and set the installed template as default. Now go to the front end and just refresh your website.

How do I send a mail at "localhost" in Joomla ???

2009-05-14T00:45:00.000-07:00

Step 1) If you have read the XAMPP installation guide then you are in the position to run “Apache” and “MySql” services. Now to configure mail server at local host you need to open XAMPP control panel and you need to start mercury mail services. You just have to click the start button corresponding to the Mercury.

Step 2) After you clicked start your Mercury service will be up and running now you just need to open its configuration settings. For this all you need to do is click on admin corresponding to the Mercury service.

Step 3) Now for the configuration of Mercury/32 click on configuration drop down menu and select “Protocol modules”.

Step 4) After clicking “Protocol Modules”, a window will be appeared, make sure that “MercuryC SMTP relaying client” and “MercuryB HTTP web server” options are unchecked and then click “OK”.

Step 5) After selecting “Protocol Modules” you need to make an account for the user for this again click on configuration drop down menu and select “Manage Local Users”.

Step 6) After selecting “Manage Local users” a window will appear, click on add option in this window.

Step 7) After clicking on “Add” you need to fill information about user and then click “OK”.

Step 8) After clicking “OK” your configuration of Mercury/32 is finished now one last thing that you have to do is configure your outlook express to check whether you are receiving emails. One last setting that you have to do in Outlook Express is, set your incoming and outgoing server as "localhost"

Making Links to Pages that aren't in a Site Menu

2008-12-25T14:21:00.001-08:00

Most of the times in Joomla you might want to make a link to a page without having to have it in a navigation menu somewhere. Examples might include:

* Forms,PDFs
* A Google AdWords landing page
* Any advertisement page

What you have to undertsand is that in Joomla, a page can not exist until there is a link in the main menu to it somewhere. But, we just say that we didn't want it linked on any navigation. Well, here is the method, the menu that doesn't show the link in the main menu of the site...

Follow these steps:

1. Make a category for the pages (or they could all be static pages)
2. Make a menu to "hold" the links to these pages. I made on called newmenu. You can put them all on this one
3. Make an item called "The New Menu". It can be blank
4. Publish the module that outputs the "newmenu".
5. Note the link to the "The New Menu" page.
6. Set the newmenu module to only show on "The New Menu" page

Now, Any time you need a link to pages/categories that don't have a link from the main menu, just make the link in the "newmenu". Then go to that page you noted in 5 above and the link should be there. Just right-click and "copy link location" and you have your URL.

My Nightmares With Joomla....

2008-05-19T04:55:00.000-07:00

What is Joomla?

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

>> Presently I am doing my project on Joomla. Firstly I tried installing it but couldn't do it my own, actually what happened really is I decided that I will read its installation manual and will install it side by side then I started reading installation manual given with its setup first ten or fifteen lines were easy to understand but suddenly as I faced the line that an apache and mysql server were needed to run Joomla, I stopped reading it further as I read that damn word apache which I had never heard before in my life.

With my senior's help I somehow managed to install and run Joomla. It was not so easy even after installation. I faced lot of difficulties further. Finally after installing Joomla for more then five times , I decided to help my fellow brethren in quest to master Joomla (installation guaranteed only [;)] ).

I will be writing here about the steps that you need to follow for installing Joomla.

Installing Joomla

1) Download the latest package from the official Joomla site.

2) unzip the package and rename the folder to joomla .

3) As I stated earlier you need an apache and mysql server for running Joomla you can use separate softwares for running apache and mysql server or you can use XAMPP software with which you can run all these servers at the same time.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use.

4) After installing XAMPP you will get a folder named htdocs in its installation directory. Copy the extraced Joomla folder in this folder.

5) Run the XAMPP software and start the mysql and apache server.

This is how the XAMPP software looks while it is running.

6) Open this link - http://localhost/xampp in your web browser and select your preferred language.

7) On the left hand side menu on your browser select the phpmyadmin option. Then select the privileges option and create a new user granting him all privileges.

8) You will also need to create a new database for your site.

9) Now you are all set to begin the joomla installation. Open the link - http://localhost/joomla in your web browser and follow the instructions. you will be asked for database somewhere in between the installation, enter the name of the previously created username and database in their respective fields.

10) You will be asked to setup an administrator account for Joomla. You can set the username and password as you please but don't forget the details as you will be changing and updating your site with this account.

11) Once Joomla is installed you get a message asking too change the name of the installation directory. You can not run Joomla until you rename the installation directory. You can find the installation directory in your C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs/joomla folder.

12) To login to Joomla and start exploring it open this link in your browser- http://localhost//joomla/administrator/index.php?mosmsg=You%20need%20to%20login

Joomla login page

Joomla control panel

What to do after installing Joomla ??

I really don't know what to write here as I exploring it too till now. You can expect to see some content here in a month or two as I am hoping I would have completed my project by then and would have learn little about Joomla [:P]

Welcome

2008-05-15T10:10:00.000-07:00

Hi
welcome to ViRuS' zone but beware..!!!!

I am doing my B-Tech (ICT) from DA-IICT gandhinagar, Gujarat