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[mcdaily Friend mcdailyJoin date: November 2009Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

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Just joined. First Joomla project. Yipes – a little afraid of installation. Can someone please tell me:

Am I supposed to install Joomla 1.5 and the template to my local drive – then upload the template files via FTP to my server?

There is a place in my web host control panel to install Joomla 1.5. I guess I need to do that?? I need to be able to access the site/make changes from numerous locations…

Plan to purchase the copyright removal. Should I do this before I download/install the template I have chosen or just the same to do it later?

Does the template download come with the “demo” content?

[Tomas Perez Friend Tomas PerezJoin date: September 2014Posts: 34Downloads:4Uploads:0 Thanks: 8 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

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mcdaily,

Joomla installation is fairly easy. I would recommend you to begin with a local installation. First, you can develop your site and make it live when it is ready. You don’t want your site to be live and half done.

The option I always use is to develop the site locally and then when it is ready, ftp it to the hosting account. Just follow this simple steps when the site is finish:
1.- export your database to a SQL file
2.- create a MySQL database in your hosting account
3.- import your SQL file in your hosting database
4.- change some configurations in configuration.php to match your hosting account
5.- ftp all your local files to your hosting account

That’s it.

You don’t need to buy the copyright removal until you are ready to go live. Then, it will be a must.

Every template comes with demo content and if this is your first installation I will highly recommend you to install the Sample Data when doing the installation. Then you can modify the content and images later.

I hope this helps.

Tomas

[mcdaily Friend mcdailyJoin date: November 2009Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

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Thank you, Tomas. It does help. Plan to get started today. Pretty sure I’ll be back here before long!…

[amitkn Friend amitknJoin date: April 2008Posts: 20Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

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Hello Macdaily,

Tomasjoom explanation were detailed, but you need an application working locally in your PC- a Webserver, like WAMP Server.
Then you can do all the steps explained above.
Hope I helped also.

Amit

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