!!! Joomla

!! Resources

* [Main site|http://www.joomla.org]
* [Ubuntu Joomla|https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joomla]
* [esther.computerhok.nl|http://esther.computerhok.nl/Joomla/administrator/index.php]
* [Free Joomla templates|http://www.joomla24.com/]

!! Installation

First I tried the [Turnkey Linux|http://www.turnkeylinux.org/joomla] appliance. 
This really works fantastic:
* download an ISO
* run it under VirtualBox (just 2 GB filesystem and 128 MB memory, fine)
* configure a few passwords, and you get a complete Joomla, Webmin, Shellinabox, PHPMyAdmin, SSH:
[turnkeyvirtualbox.png]

[turnkeyjoomla.png]

* fire up to the Joomla URL and login with admin and off we go.

Play a bit with templates, articles, sections and categories, works flawlessly.

!! On scharnhorst server

Because I don't want my laptop (running VirtualBox) to act as a server and be powered on all the time, I also want to deploy Joomla to my already running laptop server.
I had a spare openvz host (scharnhorst) that I use for that. \\
I followed the above mentioned Ubuntu install guide a bit, to summarize:

* make sure the requirements are met (apache, MySQL, PHP)
* create joomla database
* create joomla mysql user
* unzip the downloaded joomla to /var/www/Joomla
* fire up browser, a few configuration steps, and off we go !