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Installing Joomla

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This article describes very rough how I created Arlukin Articles in Joomla. The Joomla version is not alive any longer and two other versions has existed after that. One in wordpress and currently with Jekyll.

I have done it in a step by step form, so it should be possible to just repeat all my steps and get a nice working Joomla site. Of course you don’t even need to go through all these steps to get your Joomla site up and running. This is more of a guide to the tweaks I have done to this web-page. After the main installation I have done a few tweaks which are not commented in the below text. I will most certainly do more tweaks in the future. But this gives a pretty good understanding of how you install Joomla.

Joomla extensions used on this site.

AdSense Module (ClickSafe – Special Edition)

Simple module to view the Google adsense module that can be seen in the right column on the website.To learn more about Google adsense click here. I did have some trouble to get my account verified. Actually still after 2 weeks, it’s not verfied. I’m starting to think that the my account has been droped in the trach or something.

BIGSHOT Google Analytics

If you wold like to get some nice visiting statistics, this is the app for you. Read more on Google analytics by clicking here.

sh404sef

Rewrites your URLs, meta tags etc to make your webpage more searchengine friendly.

ChronoComments

Adds a comment area below every article on the site. So visiters of the site can comment what I have been writing.

Motherbot template

The template I have based the webpage on. Slightly modified, I hope that is okay with the guys at http://joomla.server-germany.de/ that did the template.

Install the Joomla code

Download joomla from [here][http://www.joomla.org/download.html]

mkdir /var/www/articles.cybercow.se
cd /var/www/articles.cybercow.se
wget http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/9910/37908/Joomla_1.5.10-Stable-Full_Package.zip
unzip Joomla_1.5.10-Stable-Full_Package.zip
rm Joomla_1.5.10-Stable-Full_Package.zip

  • Browse http://localhost

  • Click next

  • Click next

  • Click next

  • Choose mysqli localhost username pass database name delete existing tables

  • Click Next

  • Click Next

  • Enter Site name: Articles Email: articles at cybercow dot se

  • Click “Install sample data”

  • Click next

    rm -R installation/
rm INSTALL.php
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .
mv htaccess.txt .htaccess

Remove old data

Choose menu “Content – Article Manager”

  • Click ”#” to select all check boxes
  • Click Trash
  • Repeat 3 times

Choose menu “Content – Trash manager”

  • Click ”#” to select all check boxes
  • Click Delete
  • Click Delete
  • repeat 3 times

Choose menu “Content – Category manager”

  • Click ”#” to select all check boxes
  • Click Delete

Choose menu “Content – Section manager”

  • Click ”#” to select all check boxes
  • Click Delete

Choose menu “Menus – Menu manager”

  • Click “TopMenu”
  • Click Delete
  • Click Delete
  • Repeat for “Resources”, “Example Pages”, “Key Concepts”

Choose menu “Menus – main menu”

  • Click all items
  • Click Trash

Choose menu “Menus – menu trash”

  • Click ”#” to select all check boxes
  • Click Delete
  • Click Delete

Choose menu “Components – News Feeds – Feeds”

  • Click ”#” to select all check boxes
  • Click Delete
  • Click Categories
  • Click ”#” to select all check boxes
  • Click Delete
  • Click New
  • Title: What’s new
  • Click Save
  • Click Feeds
  • Click New
  • Name

Add new articles

Choose menu “Content – Section Manager”

  • Click New
  • Title: Articles
  • Click Save

Choose menu “Content – Category Manager”

  • Click New
  • Title: General
  • Click Save
  • Repeat with Development and Linux

Choose menu “Content – Article manager”

  • Click New
  • Title: Welcome to articles.cybercow.se
  • Section: Article
  • Category: General
  • Body: XXXXX
  • Click Save
  • (Repeat for all categorys)

Choose menu “Content – Article manager”

  • Click New
  • Title: XXXX
  • Section: Articles
  • Category: General
  • Body: XXXXX
  • Click Save
  • (Repeat for all categorys)

Choose menu “Menus – Main menu”

  • Click new
  • Click article layout
  • Title: Home
  • Select Article: Welcome to article.cybercow.se
  • Click Save
  • Click Home
  • Click Default

Install Autgen Menu Extension

Found here 

cd ~
wget http://blog.janzikmund.cz/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mod_autgen_menu.zip

Choose menu “Extensions- Install/Uninstall”

  • Browse the file
  • Click Update file & Install

Choose menu “Extensions – Module manager”

  • Click “AutGen menu”
  • Enter Title: Articles Enabled: yes Position: Right Choose section: Articles Category ordering: By order as set in administration Section ordering: By order as set in administration
  • Click Save
  • Repeat with Development/Linux)

Install template

Found here

cd templates
wget http://www.themes-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/motherbot.zip
unzip motherbot.zip
rm motherbot.zip

Choose menu “Extensions – Template manager”

  • Click “Your favorite Template”
  • Click default

Site configuration

Choose menu “Site – User Manager” Click Administrator

  • Name: Daniel Lindh
  • Click Save

Choose menu “Site - Global configuration”

  • Click Site tab
  • Write Global site Meta desc
  • Write Global Site Meta Keywords
  • Search Engine Friendly URL: yes
  • Use Apache mod_rewrite: Yes
  • Add suffix to URLs: yes
  • Click system tab
  • Allow User Registration: No
  • New User Account Activation: No
  • Front-end User Parameters: No
  • Click server tab
  • Time zone: UTC +1
  • Click save

Choose “Components – Polls”

  • Click check box for “Joomla is used for?”
  • Click delete
  • Click new Title/Alias: This site Published: yes Options: “Is crap”, “Is good”, “I’ll be back”
  • Click save

Choose “Components – Banner – Banners”

  • Click ”#” all Text ads but Joomla
  • Click delete
  • Click joomla Title: Hyra fritidshus Custom Banner Code: ….
  • Click save

Choose “Components – Banner – Client manager”

  • Click “Open source matters.” Client name: Sveaborg Contact email: xxx@cybercow.se
  • Click save

Choose menu “Site - Module Manager”

  • Choose “Login Form” Enabled: Yes Position: Right Menus: All
  • Click Save
  • Choose User Menu Position:Right Click Save Choose Polls Position: Right Menus: All Poll: This site
  • Click save
  • Choose Advertisement Show title: no Menus: all Footer text: [remove]
  • Click save
  • Choose Random Image Show title: no Menus all Image folder: images/stories
  • Click save
  • Choose Latest news Title: Latest Articles Position:right Show title: yes Enabled: yes Order: Recently modified first Menus: all
  • Click save
  • Choose “Who’s Online”, “Footer”, “Statistics”, “Archive”, “Sections”, “Related Items”, “Wrapper”, “Feed display”, “Main menu”, “breadcrumbs”, “News flash”, “Popular”
  • Click Delete
  • Change the orders for the componets to reflect this order. Latest Articles Articles User Menu Advertisement Polls Random image Login form
  • Click the floppy to save.

Install Google Adsense plugin

Found here

File to download

Choose menu “extensions- Install/Uninstall”

  • Browse the file
  • Click Update file & Install

Choose menu “Site - Module Manager” Choose “Sponsored links”

  • Enter Enabled: Yes Show title: No Position: Right Menus: All
  • Click Save
  • Order field for Sponsored Links 10 Click floppy to save.

Install Google analytics plugin

Found here

File to download:

Choose menu “extensions- Install/Uninstall”

  • Browse the file
  • Click Update file & Install

Choose menu “Site - Plugin manager”

  • Choose “System – BIGSHOT Google Analytics” Enabled: Yes Web Property ID: {found on www.google.com/analytics}
  • Click Save

Install sh404sef Extension

Found here

File to download:

Choose menu “extensions- Install/Uninstall”

  • Browse the file
  • Click Update file & Install

Choose menu “Components – sh404SEF”

  • Click “Click here to extended display..”
  • Choose sh404sef cofiguration Enabled: yes Unique ID: yes
  • Click tab Plugins
  • Click yes for all under “Content configuration”
  • Click tab Advanced Rewriting mode “With .htaccess) Encode URL: yes
  • Click tab META/SEO Insert h1 tags: yes
  • Click save

Install chrono comments extension

Found here

File to download:

File to download

File to download

Choose menu “extensions- Install/Uninstall”

  • Browse the “ChronoComents…. Express Install” file
  • Click Update file & Install
  • Browse the “mod_chronocomments” file
  • Click Update file & Install

Choose menu “Components – Chrono comments – comments manager”

  • Click Parameters Sections: Articles Show comments link in blog view: Enabled Guest can post: yes New comments default to: Published Show Captcha: Enabled Enable BBCode: Yes Enable BBCode Panel: yes Enable sh404SEF mode: yes
  • Click save