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[phong nam Friend phong namJoin date: May 2015Posts: 3779Downloads:1Uploads:587 Thanks: 499 Thanked: 974 times in 888 posts]

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It was over 10 months since the first stable version of Joomla 3.x came to existence with new features comparing to its LTS version Joomla 2.5.x (security improvements, responsive with Twitter Bootstrap integration, tags support on J3.1.x …) and nearly same period of time since Joomlart released the first Joomla 3.x quickstart package of our JA Templates which, as you know, allow you to have a new Joomla website look like our template demo basing on the demo sample data of the contents and extension’s settings; The rising requests on how to install these Joomla 3.x quickstarts on the remote server, have still been coming to us from JA members, especially the Joomla 3 newcomers.

In this tutorial, I intend not to guide you to upload and install the quickstart directly on your remote server because I know you, guys sometimes can get stuck in installation failure in case, the quickstart can’t extract the sample content into available database or the not configuration.php file existing.

On other hands, we will go around a little bit by extracting the quickstart on our localhost firstly, then moving all installed files and database to the remote server’s storage. Not to be shown off, but this method always ensures the success to 98% requests of our Joomlart quickstart installation service.

A. Working on the localhost
1. The first and most important step is downloading the exact Joomla 3.x quickstart version of our template, that you want to get installing.

2. You need to install and activate a simulated web server which allows the Joomla website to run on the localhost. My favorite choice is Xampp – is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package.

3. Create an installation folder (i.e ja_telineiv) in the xampphtdocs on your hard disk and extract the quickstart package into this new folder.

4. Using a browser to create a database for new Joomla installation in localhost phpMyadmin.

5. Start to install the quickstart by entering the selected folder path (i.e localhost/ja_telineiv/) on the address bar of browser.

At this step, you guys can see how beautiful the installation interface of Joomla 3.x is, I love it. Well, fulfilling the required info is only thing you need to do, please pay attention to my marked arrows. Make sure that you did note all admin infos or can remember them.

6. Compressing all installed files of folder into a .zip file to be uploaded to remote server.

7. Coming back to phpMyadmin to export the installed sample data into a .sql file.

Let have a coffee or even beer to make sure that you are perky enough to follow the rest steps !!!

B. Uploading the files and sample data to remote server.

1. In this step, it will be easier for you to upload the installed website quickly if you have the Cpanel account on hand. If you don’t know what Cpanel is, read here and make a call to the hosting provider!!! Just joking. You can check this: http://docs.joomla.org/Using_an_FTP_client_to_upload_files

2. Upload and extract the compressed .zip into the root folder of your website domain.

3. Go to phpMyadmin of remote server and import the exported data into the selected database.

4. Back to the root folder and edit the configuration.php with the new info of host, database name that you already imported the data into.

That is all ! Enjoy the new Joomla 3.x quickstart !

Note: This is just a sample method on installing a Joomla 3.x quickstart on a website domain, i know many JA members, you guys know exactly how to handle this prerequisite task on various amazing methods. All your comments and shared notes/tips are welcome here. Thank you !

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1. TomC
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3. Laong Duijndam
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[profit613 Friend profit613Join date: November 2008Posts: 13Downloads:4Uploads:3 Thanks: 2]

#526176

I’m getting this error when I get to step 5. If I click next it gets stuck and will not continue.

I’m not installing a 3.1. I’m installing a 2.5 quickstart. The reason why I am doing this is because I am unable to install the quick start on my Godaddy server. I get a different error on their install page and it will not install. After installing several quickstart types of installations on Godaddy servers which worked fine I am unable to install this one after hours of troubleshooting. I spoke to go daddy support and they said that they cannot help me with it so I am trying your method.

Any help would be appreciated.

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[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#526178

For a Joomla 2.5 installation, you could try following THIS TUTORIAL.

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[profit613 Friend profit613Join date: November 2008Posts: 13Downloads:4Uploads:3 Thanks: 2]

#526186

Thanks for your reply however I am well versed at quickstart installations on webservers. My problem is that I am getting this error on the install page: (please visit http://www.abeltechcloud.com to see it)

I tried other quickstarts for different templates and I get the same error. After spending over 5 hours troubleshooting and searching for fixes. I contacted Godaddy (yeah I know…but that’s who my customer is hosting with) and they didn’t have a clue nor said they could support joomla quickstart packages. They suggested I use their Joomla installer…smh. I’ve successfully installed several quickstarts in the recent past using different versions but something just isn’t right here.

When I ran across your instructions for installing on a local machine and then uploading to the server I saw this as a potential fix for the problem. Since I’ve never ran a joomla site on a local machine I am unlearned in regards to how to properly set everything up to run locally. I followed your instructions and I’m getting a different error on the install start page.

Can you help me set up the quickstart to run locally or do u have any idea what could be wrong with the web server installation?

[Nazario A Friend Nazario AJoin date: April 2013Posts: 1183Downloads:0Uploads:406 Thanks: 91 Thanked: 284 times in 263 posts]

#526446

@profit613,

Currently, I can not access this site: http://www.abeltechcloud.com/

If you want to install the JA Template quickstart package, you can follow this userguide.

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