How to Install & Configure Joomla on ubuntu 20.04

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system which is used for publishing web content on websites.Using Joomla, we can create multiples web applications,& blogs .

Joomla is similer to WordPress & both are used for creating the web content application and allows updating, customizing and managing the website.It provides to build dynamic websites.

Install Apache2 Web Service

Update the System.

apt-get update

Install apche2 web service.

apt-get install apache2

Start & Enable Apache2 service.

systemctl start apache2
systemctl enable apache2

Install Mysql database.

Update the System.

apt-get update

Install Mysql database.

apt-get install mysql-server

Start & Enable Mysql service.

systemctl start mysql
systemctl enable mysql

Login to Mysql database.

mysql -u root

Press Enter.

Here is the command output.

Fig 1

Create MySQL user & set the password on MySQL user.

CREATE USER 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Create Database & provide the CHARSET.

CREATE DATABASE joomla_database charset=utf8mb4;

Provide Grant all Privileges on database to user.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON joomla_database.* TO'user'@'localhost';

Flush the privileges.

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

If we want to create MySQL user,database & Set the password without MySQL Login.Run the Following commands.

mysql -u root -e "CREATE USER 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';"
mysql -u root -e "CREATE DATABASE joomla_database charset=utf8mb4;"
mysql -u root -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON joomla_database.* TO'user'@'localhost';"
mysql -u root -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

Install PHP8.0

Update the system

apt-get update

Enable PHP PPA repository

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Install PHP8.0

apt-get install php8.0

Installing PHP Extensions

apt install php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip

apt-get install php-cli php-mysql php8.0-common php8.0-opcache php-gmp php-imagick

apt-get install openssl php-pgsql php-smbclient php-ssh2 php-sqlite3

Check PHP modules.

php -m

Check PHP version.

php -v

Here is the command output.

PHP 8.0.8 (cli) (built: ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.0.8, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.0.8, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

Install Joomla

Go to Apache root directory.

cd /var/www/html

Create a folder.

mkdir folder-name
or
mkdir joomla

Download the Joomla.

wget https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-9-26/
Joomla_3-9-26-Stable-Full_Package.zip

Extract/Unzip the downloaded file.

apt-get install unzip
&
unzip Joomla_3-9-26-Stable-Full_Package.zip -d /var/www/html/joomla

GIve the following permissions to joomla folder.

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/joomla
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/joomla

Configure the apache2 web service.

Create a new configure file.

vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/joomla.conf

Add the given below lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   
    ServerAdmin server-admin-name@localhost
    ServerName  server-name.com
    ServerAlias www.server-alias-name
    
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/joomla/
    
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
    
    <Directory /var/www/html/joomla/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Enable the config file.

a2ensite joomla.conf

Enable the rewrite mode

a2enmod rewrite

Restart the apache2 web service.

systemctl restart apache2

Access Joomla Web Interface

Access Joomla Web Interface by using the URL.

http:/Server-ip/joomla

Here is the output.

Provide the Site-name,Email-is, user-name & Password.
Click on Next.

Fig 1

Provide the database details such as user-name,database-name & user-password.
Click on Next.

Fig 2

Overview all the configurations.

Fig. 3

Click on Install.

Fig. 4

Joomla is Installed.
Click on “Remove Installation Folder” as a security precaution.
Click on Administrator.