First experience of using a comprehensive Content Management System (CMS) was Drupal way back some years ago. Before that content management meant either using Front Page or direct FTP of the webpages. Despite "hearing" a lot of good reviews about Joomla never really got the time to explore it. First Steps The first steps towards installing Joomla in Linux are the usual for web servers. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP).  After testing LAMP's successful installation proceed with the following. Download Joomla from the website and follow the instructions given in INSTALL.PHP file in the main folder. Copying the instructions from the php file verbatim here. Copy the folder into www directory of Apache. {verbatim copy starts } First, you must create a new database for your Joomla! site e.g.     $ mysqladmin -u db_user -p create Joomla MySQL will prompt for the 'db_user' database password and then create the initial database files.  Next yo...

In the early nineties Linux was a hobby, which in the words of Linus Torvalds might never be professional like GNU. It took off and shook the foundations of empires aspiring to bleed every penny by selling server operating system. The contributions of open source community have caused severe headache for software companies. Apache Foundation is one such name. How much does it cost to setup a web server? Around the cost of a LAMP, compare this with the cost of aptly named vamp or is it WAMP?  What jinn did the lamp raise? What changes did it trigger? A very simple question is how come Ethernet and Networks were around in the seventies but it took just a couple of years after Linux for Internet to raise it head? The answers to all these questions is there was no LAMP earlier. LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP (Python / Perl).  This is open source combination which gives a head start to web development environment. LAMPs have been around for not very long but the LAMP was...