This is a basic configuration of Joomla 1.0.x setup in Slackware Linux web server. Joomla is an open source content management system widely used as a website, blog and forum by many individuals and organisations. You need to prepare several things first before start to install and configure Joomla in Slackware. Here are the prerequisites:

• Setup Web server.


• Setup MySQL database.

You must have a working web server before installing joomla. The Setup Linux web server - Install and configure Apache in Slackware tutorial is a basic guide if need it.

Joomla need mysql database to store the content management system data. A guide on mysql setup can be found in Setup and configure MYSQL in Slackware Linux tutorial.

When you are ready, let's continue to setup Joomla in Slackware Linux. Firstly, create a new database for the Joomla website and give privilege to a database user. Write down the database name, database username and database user password. You need to provide these data during Joomla setup.

Next task is to get Joomla package. You can get the latest version of Joomla 1.0.x from Joomla official website. Extract the package to /var/www/htdocs/ directory in Slackware after finished download (depends on how you setup your web server, the given directory is the default Slackware web server home directory). See example steps below on how to do that:

luzar@slackware:~$ wget http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/6828/22538/Joomla_1.0.15-Stable-Full_Package.zip
--2009-06-10 10:26:17--  http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/6828/22538/Joomla_1.0.15-St...
Resolving joomlacode.org... 70.87.155.82
Connecting to joomlacode.org|70.87.155.82|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://downloads.joomlacode.org/frsrelease/2/2/5/22538/Joomla_1.0.15-Sta... [following]
--2009-06-10 10:26:19--  http://downloads.joomlacode.org/frsrelease/2/2/5/22538/Joomla_1.0.15-Sta...
Resolving downloads.joomlacode.org... 70.87.155.98
Connecting to downloads.joomlacode.org|70.87.155.98|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2829952 (2.7M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `Joomla_1.0.15-Stable-Full_Package.zip'

100%[======================================>] 2,829,952   6.81K/s   in 7m 11s

2009-06-10 10:33:38 (6.41 KB/s) - `Joomla_1.0.15-Stable-Full_Package.zip' saved [2829952/2829952]
luzar@slackware:~$
luzar@slackware:~$ cd /var/www/htdocs/ 
luzar@slackware:/var/www/htdocs$ mkdir testjoomla 
luzar@slackware:/var/www/htdocs$ cd testjoomla/ 
luzar@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/testjoomla$ unzip /home/luzar/Joomla_1.0.15-Stable-Full_Package.zip 

Open web browser such as firefox or seamonkey and key in localhost/testjoomla in the url (replace testjoomla with your joomla directory name). Screenshots below shows normal warnings when setting up Joomla in Slackware Linux:

This is the pre-installation check. Fix all warnings and recommended settings.

To fix the above warnings, open /etc/httpd/php.ini file with text editor and change the warnings value. See example below:

root@slackware:~# vim /etc/httpd/php.ini 

Search display_errors and turn the value to On.

display_errors = On 

Search magic_quotes_gpc and turn the value to On.

magic_quotes_gpc = On 

Save php.ini file and exit. Now it's time to fix the next warning, Joomla configuration.php unwriteable:

The above fix is optional. You can fix this now by changing configuration.php file's permission or you can copy the configuration to the file at the end of Joomla setup later. If you want to change permission for the configuration.php file now, below is an example commands on how to do it:

root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# touch configuration.php 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chown luzar.users configuration.php 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 configuration.php 

Next step is you have to edit permission for all unwriteable directories and files below:

Here is how to give permission to directory and file:

root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 administrator/backups/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 administrator/components/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 administrator/modules/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 administrator/templates/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 cache/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 components/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 images/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 images/banners/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 images/stories/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 language/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 mambots/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 mambots/content/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 mambots/editors 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 mambots/editors-xtd/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 mambots/search/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 mambots/system/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 media/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 modules/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# chmod 777 templates/ 

Click Check again to see the result. When you are done, click Next to continue.

Here is the Joomla License agreement. Read it and when you understand the terms and conditions, click Next to continue.

Step 1 - MySQL database configuration.

Step 2 - Enter the name of your Joomla! site.

Step 3 - Confirm the site URL, path, admin e-mail and file/directory chmods. Change the Admin password.

Step 4 - Congratulations! Joomla! is installed.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO COMPLETELY REMOVE THE INSTALLATION DIRECTORY. Here is how to do it:

root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla# rm -r installation/ 
root@slackware:/var/www/htdocs/joomla#

Now you can visit you new Joomla administrator page. The administrator url is http://localhost/testjoomla/administrator/index.php.

That's all. Good luck!