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    By Steven GuzmanFebruary 25th 2021

    Joomla is a PHP based content management system (CMS) that allows you to build websites easily and offers many different templates for blogs, commerce, marketing, etc. Today we will be installing Joomla on Ubuntu 20.04.

    First, if you would like to make your website accessible remotely please click on link below to purchase a public IP address.

    How to Purchase and Activate a Dedicated Public IP Address for your Shell™

    Prerequisites – Installing a Lamp Stack

    Let's open up a terminal by selecting and searching for terminal up top in search bar and clicking on the icon to open a session and update our system packages.

    sudo apt update

    Now we can install Apache, Mysql and PHP

    sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php7.4

    Next, let's start, enable, and check the status of Apache

    sudo systemctl start apache2
    sudo systemctl enable apache2
    sudo systemctl status apache2

     

    Enabling UFW firewall for Apache webserver

    If you have purchased a public IP, lets go ahead and enable the firewall to allow traffic on http port 80

    sudo apt install ufw
    sudo enable ufw
    sudo ufw allow http

    Once we have started UFW, and enabled it, let's check the status of firewall

    sudo status ufw

     

    Next, let's install dependencies needed

    sudo apt-get install php zip libapache2-mod-php php-gd php-json php-mysql php-curl php-mbstring php-intl php-imagick php-xml php-bcmath php-gmp php-xmlrpc

     

    After that, let's create a MySQL root password using the command below following the steps instructed as it will give you a series of questions to answer yes or no to for a security purposes.

    sudo mysql_secure_installation

     

    Joomla – Create Database

    Next step is to create a database for Joomla so lets login to MySQL

    sudo mysql -u root

    Once you are in the mysql> prompt create the database.  In this example I am using joomla (database name), shells_user (database username), My$hell123 (database password), however, it is recommended that you use your own credentials for this step for security.

    CREATE DATABASE joomla;
    CREATE USER 'shells_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'My$hell123';
    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON joomla.* TO 'shells_user'@'localhost';
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    exit

     

    Configuring Apache and Joomla

    Next we will update the php.ini configuration file to increase file size and memory limit. I will be using nano text editor for this.

    sudo nano /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini

    Update the following to php.ini file

    memory_limit = 256M
    upload_max_filesize = 128M
    post_max_size = 128M
    max_execution_time = 300
    output_buffering = Off

    After the php.ini file is updated, let's download the latest Joomla version using wget

    wget https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-9-24/Joomla_3-9-24-Stable-Full_Package.tar.gz

    Next, we are going to make a directory for our Joomla files

    sudo mkdir /var/www/html/joomla

    After that, we will extract our Joomla folder using tar and move it to /var/www/html/joomla

    sudo tar xzf Joomla_3-9-23-Stable-Full_Package.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/joomla

    You can verify the Joomla files by doing an ls

    cd var/www/html/joomla
    ls

    You should see the following above

     

    Now, let's change ownership of our Joomla directory so we don’t run into any permission issues

    sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/joomla

    Next, we will create a virtual host .conf file for joomla.

    sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/joomla.conf.

    Paste the following into the joomla.conf file below.

    ServerName localhost
    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/joomla/


    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/joomla-error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/joomla-access.log combined

    <Directory /var/www/html/joomla/>
    Options FollowSymlinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
    </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>

    Save and exit and check for syntax errors with the following command

    apachectl -t

    If no syntax errors, you should get an output like below

    Disabling Apache’s default site and enabling Joomla's site

    a2dissite 000-default.conf
    a2ensite joomla.conf

    After that reload Apache

    sudo systemctl restart apache2

     

    Final Steps

    Now we should be able to access Joomla with http://localhost or your assigned public IP/hostname if you have configured for remote access. Once on the website, follow the steps to complete your setup: 1. Configuration 2. Database 3. Overview.

    • Configuration – Create admin account
    • Database – Enter the database information we created earlier
    • Overview - Finalization before you can begin creating your website

     

     

    Conclusion

    If installation is finalized, you should see something similar to this site below.

     

    And that’s it. You can now create your own websites using Joomla.  Joomla is a robust content management system. If you would like to learn more, please visit click on the link below

    Joomla Documentation

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