Joomla#

Resources#

• Main site
• Ubuntu Joomla
• esther's Joomla
• esther's Joomla Admin Internal External
• Free Joomla templates

Installation#

First I tried the Turnkey Linux 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:

• 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 !

To make the Joomla accessible from the internet, I use apache proxy forwarding via blackpearl to scharnhorst:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName esther.computerhok.nl
  ProxyPass / http://scharnhorst.computerhok.nl/Joomla
  ProxyPassReverse / http://scharnhorst.computerhok.nl/Joomla
</VirtualHost>
...
ProxyPass /Joomla http://scharnhorst.computerhok.nl/Joomla
ProxyPassReverse /Joomla http://scharnhorst.computerhok.nl/Joomla

We intend to register a new Domain name for this Joomla....