The article, posted below, is the official Joomla installation of Joomla 1.5.x. All versions of Joomla 1.5.x include free templates. As such, the installation procedure outlined here would be the same installation procedure for the integrated Joomla 1.5.x-Template kits of companies like Joomlart's QuickStart Kits.
If you follow the instructions properly, the installation is straightforward. For this installation, Joomla 1.5.5-Teline II v1.5 QuickStart kit was used. It was subsequently patched with the recently released, Joomla_1.5.5_to_1.5.6-Stable-Patch_Package to update the site to Joomla 1.5.6.
Web Browser Installation
The browser installation method of installing Joomla! is the far straighter forward of the two methods and is what is hoped to be a typical installation. Whilst it is relatively easy it is only a semi-automatic method as you do still have to enter some details during the process. However, the “hard” work is done for you by the installer software itself.
Assuming you have already uploaded the Joomla! core pack of files to your Web root directory, be it on your local machine or a remote host, the next step is to start your Web browser and enter the URL to your Web site. There are a number of options open to you in this process:
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This may simply be http://localhost/joomla for a local installation, or http://www.yourdomain.com for a remote installation.
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If you have installed Joomla! in a sub directory of your Web root then you will need to add that directory to the end of the address for example http://localhost/joomla/test or http://www.yourdomain.com/joomla.
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If you have installed Joomla! as a sub-domain on a remote host this might appear as http://www.joomla.yourdomain.com.