Installing Joomla 1.5 on Windows 2003 with an Apache Web Server
If you have been struggling with the popular Joomla Content Management system running on Windows, this tutorial should help get you going in the right direction. After all. getting Joomla, Apache, PHP and MySQL all running smoothly and in harmony under Windows can be quite a challenge.
Many people that run Windows servers and want to use Joomla have a tough time deciding whether they should use IIS as their webserver, since they already have it, and it is designed as a part of their server, or if they should use Apache. There really isn't a simple answer, except to say that Joomla, PHP and MySQL will all play much more nicely with Apache than IIS. You can use IIS, of course, but you will find yourself running into problems over time that you would not experience with Apache as your web server. This will be especially true when you try to get Joomla to use Search Engine Friendly URLs while youa re running an IIS webserver. You can do it, but it will be a major hassle, while if you simply use Apache, it will all take minutes to accomplish.
In this video tutorial we start with a fresh Windows 2003 server and go through every step needed to get Joomla version 1.5 running on it with the pache webserver, rather than IIS. We install PHP and MySQ through the easy and full-featured XAMPP package, tweak the settings of the PHP.INI file, configure IIS to operate with PHP and MySQL, then finally download, install and test Joomla 1.5.
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Installing Joomla 1.5 on Windows 2003 with an Apache Web Server
I followed the video tutorial and I have errors when it comes up. The only difference is that I installed a newer version of XAMPP and the Visual C distributable as the newer ones are out. Here is my error Warning: Parameter 1 to modMainMenuHelper::buildXML() expected to be a reference, value given in D:xampphtdocslibrariesjoomlacachehandlercallback
.php on line 99
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PERFECT A written by bob,
July 27, 2009
THE BEST THAT I'VE SEEN, EASY, CLEAR, CLEAN THANKS!!!!!!!
amazing video written by Ivon Stocco,
February 07, 2009
Ok, finally I could see the video, and following the instructions Joomla! nows works fantastic! It's amazing how simple something complex can be...thanks a lot to videotutorialzone for this! See you guys. Ivon
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... written by Ivon,
February 06, 2009
Hello, I can't see the link to the video, please, I'd appreciate your help! Thanks in advance, Ivon
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Joomla 1.5 install tutorial was a big help written by Will Fulford,
January 23, 2009
i found it very easy to follow and get Joomla running locally with out any issues.
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Gift from God! written by Kim,
September 30, 2008
Thank you so much! This has been such a great help, and I'm recommending it to anyone I know. I would have probably sat for days trying to install them.
Thanks again!
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This is genius written by Sjiraff,
May 29, 2008
Thanz alot for that tutorial. It's about the first time everything works out of the box - if you just follow this video; your webserver will be up in no time. Thanx again - this really saved me some hours of searching the web and going through tons of documents. SUPER
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you are too good to be true!!! written by rene apc,
February 21, 2008
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Hope it can be solved.