Setup Joomla

This example will install Joomla from within the PHP container.

See also

Official Joomla Documentation

Table of Contents

Overview

The following configuration will be used:

Project name VirtualHost directory Database TLD_SUFFIX Project URL
my-joomla /shared/httpd/my-joomla n.a. loc http://my-joomla.loc

Walk through

It will be ready in six simple steps:

  1. Enter the PHP container
  2. Create a new VirtualHost directory
  3. Download and extract Joomla
  4. Symlink webroot directory
  5. Setup DNS record
  6. Visit http://my-joomla.loc in your browser

See also

Available tools

2. Create new vhost directory

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ mkdir my-joomla

3. Download and extract Joomla

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ cd my-joomla
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-joomla $ wget -O joomla.tar.gz https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-8-0/joomla_3-8-0-stable-full_package-tar-gz?format=gz
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ mkdir joomla
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ tar xvfz joomla.tar.gz -C joomla/

5. DNS record

If you do not have Auto-DNS configured, you will need to add the following line to your host operating systems /etc/hosts file (or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc on Windows):

/etc/hosts
 127.0.0.1 my-joomla.loc

See also

For in-depth info about adding DNS records on Linux, Windows or MacOS see: DNS records or Auto-DNS.