Joomla on Mac OS X

  2011-03-12      170 words, 1 minutes

• apache
• joomla
• mac
• mysql
• php

I have to take care of Frederic Mejias’ Martial Arts School website . It historically runs on Joomla. I personally probably wouldn’t have use that piece of … software but the choice isn’t mine :p
So starting using/modifying that beast, I installed an instance of my MacBook Pro. What you’ll need is a Web server capable of running PHP and a SQL database. Once you finished saying that, the quickest thought is Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP.

The MAMP part

Here’re the directions:

• Grab the free version of MAMP ;
• Run the install wizard ;
• Start the application.

That was quite easy, huh :)

You can configure the application to specify the PHP version and cache utility.

The Joomla part

• Use the PHPMySQL utility to create a joomla database table that will be used by Joomla ;
• Grab the desired version of Joomla :
• Unpack the archive in the /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ directory ;
• Start the Joomla installation process (http://localhost/joomla/) ;
• Follow the Web assistant and you’re done.

That’s All Folks :)