Installation of Joomla from Source

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Installation

1) Downloaded joomla application from website.

2) Extracted the file and copied it to the location /home/www/www/

3) Created database named "joomla"

>create database joomla;

Granted permission to the database for the user root.

> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON joomla.* TO "joomlauser"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY "redhat";

Flushed privilege

>flush privileges;

4) Changed permission of the wordpress file on that location

chown -R www:www /home/www/www/*

5)Recompile Php with zlib suport

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/

--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php

--enable-cgi --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

--with-zlib

6)Restart apache and enter following address http://test007.server.com/joomla in the browser, Follow the step and joomla installation will be complete