Joomla 1.5

First Install LAMP: http://installsteps.blogspot.com/2010/10/virtual-machine-centos-54-running-php.html

Download Joomla 1.5 (http://www.joomla.org/download.html)

$ mkdir /var/www/html/joomla

Copy the .zip file to /var/www/html/joomla

Unpack the .zip file:

$ cd /var/www/html/joomla

$ unzip Joomla*1.5*

Make an empty configuration file

$ touch configuration.php

$ cd ..

$ chown apache:apache joomla

$ service httpd restart

$ service mysqld restart

Browse to http://localhost/joomla

The installation page should be showing and the page checks if all the modules

and configuration can be saved.

Use the NEXT button to configure your environment.

Create your database (joomla15) accordingly and/or use a specific database

user for your environment.

admin account credentials should be given.

Finally rename your installation directory:

$ cd /var/www/html/joomla

$ mv installation inst_old

Joomla

Site -> User Manager

Create user (info) and grant it Administrator rights (Not Super Administrator!)

Login with info - user

The site is known as :

http://localhost/joomla

And you can do administration with:

http://localhost/joomla/administrator

CHANGING LOGO

Unfortunately such a basic thing as changing the logo is complicated!

copy mw_joomla_logo.png from the templates:

C:> pscp root@ip:/var/www/html/joomla/templates/rhuk_milkyway/images/mw_joomla_logo.png .

Modify using a program like GIMP, MS Paint

Copy back

C:> pscp mw_joomla_logo.png root@ip:/var/www/html/joomla/templates/rhuk_milkyway/images/.

Now you have to alter the CSS file to match the dimensions of your image.

$ cd /var/www/html/joomla/templates/rhuk_milyway/css

$ vi template.css

Search for div#logo section and change:

width: 298px;

height: 75px;

into your dimensions...

Other TEMPLATE

Download template as ZIP archive.

First you check if this can be installed as an extension:

Extensions=> Install/Uninstall

Try to install the zip archive as a package.

If that fails you can do this:

Upload the ZIP file to the /var/www/html/joomla/templates directory

$ unzip [template].zip

Change owner to apache:apache

$ cd /var/www/html/joomla/templates

$ chown -R apache:apache [template]

Sometimes you need to make a file writable (params.ini)

PAGES

Content -> Article Manager

Create pages using the Article Manager.

In the page you can create links and text.

Menu Editor

With Menu Manager you first create the menu options.

The menu's can be bound to the articles (pages) you created.

  +New

 (Article Layout) -> Select article 

Main Menu -> Menu Items button

Gives you the option to create a menu with the different submenu's 

 (Submenu is done via ALIAS)

  Main Menu  [ Edit Menus ] button

 + New

    Alias 

      Select menu item from the right panel

BANNER

Banner Manager

  Create a Catagory

  Create a Client

  And lastly you can create the Banner by selecting the category and client.

Activate Banner

 Module Manager

   New

    Click (o) Banner

    

Enter the sheet for the information and allow all modules to be bound to the banner.

Make sure that the menu's are ENABLED from the module manager.