Joomla Hosting – A Setup Guide For Joomla Websites

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:43:51 +0000

Emerging as one of the best open source content management systems today, Joomla is capable of an impressive array of functions. With a Joomla based website, you can easily build a wide variety of sites including blogs, forums, eCommerce stores and custom applications. The growth of the user community has ensured a stable release that is easy to install and customize. This guide aims to help Joomla users understand how to host, install and setup their Website.

Setting up Joomla Hosting

To install the software on your web host, you’ll need to create a mySQL database and user – make sure you add the user with fully privileges on the database as well. With these credentials, you can then install the program quite easily. Some web hosts even offer one-step installation to make the process even easier.

Joomla runs on an open source PHP and mySQL platform, and requires Linux hosting for installation. With its database driven installation, the setup process is relatively easy and you can get Joomla setup in less than an hour.

Joomla Web Development

More experienced developers can also dive into advanced features, including social networking module Community Builder and the many e-Commerce applications.The community has released a wide variety of applications (modules) and designs (themes) so you can easily customize the functions and design of your site.

With a user friendly CMS system, the platform is ideal for those who want to collaborate with friends or colleagues to easily update a website. A fully open source software package, users are free to customize their installation as they see fit. As a result, you can get a great, flexible website that can install in minutes and gives you enough options to customize as you see fit for years to come.
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Joomla Hosting – A Setup Guide For Joomla Websites