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==Installing Joomla! 3 on SME Server 9.0==

==Installing Joomla! 3 on SME Server 9.0==

[http://www.joomla.org/ Joomla!] is a powerful, flexible content management system (CMS) that is in wide use across the Internet.  This How-To will cover configuration of the SME 9.0 server to support Joomla! 3, and installation of Joomla! 3 on the SME 9.0 server.  It will not cover configuration or use of Joomla! itself; those subjects are covered by the Joomla! documentation and many other sources.

[http://www.joomla.org/ Joomla!] is a powerful, flexible content management system (CMS) that is in wide use across the Internet.  This How-To will cover configuration of the SME 9.0 server to support Joomla! 3, and installation of Joomla! 3 on the SME 9.0 server.  It will not cover configuration or use of Joomla! itself; those subjects are covered by the Joomla! documentation and many other sources.

As of this writing, the most recent version of Joomla! 3 is 3.3.6.  This version requires PHP 5.3.10 or greater, which is a greater version than installed by default with SME 9.0.  You can either upgrade PHP following [[Upgrade php/mysql|these instructions]], or install Joomla! 3.2.7, which will work with the stock version of PHP.

As of this writing, the most recent version of Joomla! 3 is 3.3.6.  This version requires PHP 5.3.10 or greater, which is a greater version than installed by default with SME 9.0.  To avoid potential conflicts with packages in SME server which depend on the stock version of PHP, you will use [[PHP Software Collections]] to install a newer version alongside the installed version. Install and configure that contrib before proceeding with these instructions.

Installation of Joomla! involves creating an ibay to house Joomla!, creating a MySQL user for Joomla!, downloading and extracting the Joomla! package, and going through the Joomla! web setup.

Installation of Joomla! involves creating an ibay to house Joomla!, creating a MySQL user for Joomla!, downloading and extracting the Joomla! package, and going through the Joomla! web setup.  In the text boxes below, commands you type will be in '''bold''', while any response from the system will be in normal print.

===Create the ibay===

===Create the ibay===

Create an ibay for Joomla! to live in.  You can call it anything you want, but I'll use joomla for this example.  I used the following settings:

Create an ibay for Joomla! to live in.  You can call it anything you want, but I'll use joomla for this example.  I used the following settings:

[[File:joomla_ibay.png]]

[[File:joomla_ibay.png]]

===Create the MySQL user===

===Create the MySQL user===

===Download and extract the Joomla! package===

===Download and extract the Joomla! package===

Download the Joomla! package (either version 3.2.7 if you have chosen not to upgrade PHP, or the most recent version if you have upgraded PHP) to joomla/html and unzip it.  You can do this from the command line like this (substituting the link for the most recent version):

Download the Joomla! package to joomla/html and unzip it.  You can do this from the command line like this (substituting the link for the most recent version).  These commands will also move the .zip file out of your web-accessible space, and set ownership and permissions appropriately.

  [root@e-smith ~]# '''cd ~joomla/../html'''

  [root@e-smith ~]# '''cd ~joomla/../html'''

  [root@e-smith html]# '''unzip Joomla_3.3.6-Stable-Full_Package.zip'''

  [root@e-smith html]# '''unzip Joomla_3.3.6-Stable-Full_Package.zip'''

  [root@e-smith html]# '''rm index.html'''

  [root@e-smith html]# '''rm index.html'''

===Configure Joomla! using its web installer===

===Configure Joomla! using its web installer===

[[File:joomla_installer4.png|960px]]

[[File:joomla_installer4.png|960px]]

Since the Joomla! package was extracted as the root user, the web server can't remove the installation folder.  Thus, if you click on the "Remove installation folder" button, you'll get an error message.  You'll need to remove it from the command line, like this:

If you receive an error message when you click on the "Remove installation folder" button, you may need to remove it from the command line, like this:

  [root@e-smith html]# '''rm -rf installation'''

  [root@e-smith html]# '''rm -rf installation'''

You can go to the administration backend at http://yourserver/joomla/administrator.  Once you log in with the admin user and password you specified in the installer, it should look like this:

You can go to the administration backend at http://yourserver/joomla/administrator.  Once you log in with the admin user and password you specified in the installer, it should look like this:

[[File:joomla_backend.png|960px]]

[[File:joomla_backend.png|960px]]

===Security===

===Security===

I wanted to restrict access to the administration backend to my LAN, so an outside user couldn't even get to the login page.  To do this, I created an .htaccess file like this:

 

I wanted to restrict access to the administration backend to my LAN, so an outside user couldn't even get to the login page.  To do this, I created a custom template fragment:

  [root@e-smith html]# '''nano administrator/.htaccess'''

  [root@e-smith ~]# '''mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf'''

[root@e-smith ~]# '''cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf'''

[root@e-smith httpd.conf]# '''nano -w 92Joomla'''

The contents of the file look like this:

The contents of the file look like this:

  Order Deny,Allow

  Order Deny,Allow

  Deny from all

  Deny from all

  Allow from 192.168.x.0/24

  Allow from 192.168.'''0'''.0/24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--[[User:DanB35|DanB35]] ([[User talk:DanB35|talk]]) 17:33, 10 October 2014 (CEST)

--[[User:DanB35|DanB35]] ([[User talk:DanB35|talk]]) 23:54, 10 October 2014 (CEST)