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Richard,
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<br />Joomla is installed in each site's /web directory and is only for that site. It also has to have access to a MySQL database for it to work.
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<br />You can install it directly in the /home/sites/www.domain.tld/web directory for that virtual site. Or you can put it in a subdirectory like /web/cms or /web/joomla and put a PHP pointer for http requests to go into that subdirectory. I learned that trick can be handy when the customer has other big software packages they want on their site, like calendar or scheduling systems.
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<br />First create the MySQL database. And create a MySQL user/password with full access to that database. (PHPMyAdmin makes that easy when creating a new user - checkmark the box to create a similar named database at the same time).
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<br />Then FTP the Joomla zipfile to the /web directory and uncompress (or uncompress locally and FTP the whole Joomla directory tree to the /web directory). You might have to change ownerships to get it working correctly. From the command-line, go to the site's /web directory and use "chown apache:site# *". Replace the # with the site number for that site.
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<br />That's all there is to it. Use a browser to hit that domain's site. The Joomla configuration setup will come up and lead you through setting up Joomla.
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<br />The only other thing I've run into is occasional permissions problems. I've had to do things like setting permissions to 777 for Joomla directories like /tmp or /modules - so Joomla can write into those directories while installing modules.
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<br />Good luck.
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<br />Chuck
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From: "Richard Sidlin" <richard@sidlin.co.uk>
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To: "Blue Onyx" <Blueonyx@blueonyx.it>
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Sent: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:31:22 +0100
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:07995] Joomla
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<br />> Hi
All
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<br />> Bit of advice please. I need to install Joomla as a new customer wishes
to
host a site with us and they currently use this system. Does Joomla just get
installed within a new virtual site on the BO server and if so, is it accessible
by any other virtual site that may want
Joomla?
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<br />> If anyone has created a How to for the installation on Blue Onyx, that
would be
fantastic!
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Thanks
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Richard
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