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Joomla! is a product completely crafted out of PHP. It's built to dovetail into Apache2 perfectly.
It's install process is simplicity in itself.
The Joomla Full_Package setup file downloaded from joomla.org is a zipped file. Extract the contents of the archive using Winzip or any other archiving tool.
During extraction, all the files contained in the archive will be extracted to a folder, named Joomla_{version_number}-Stable-Full_Package.
If the archive was downloaded and extracted to D:\, there will now be a folder called D:\Joomla_{version_number}-Stable-Full_Package\ where the files extracted from the archive can be found.
Rename the folder Joomla_{version_number}-Stable-Full_Package to joomla.
You are now ready to install Joomla CMS on your local computer.
Joomla CMS is normally installed on your local computer within a folder that is controlled by Apache Web Server.
NOTE: The installation and configuration of Apache Web Server is given in another tutorial on this website.
The parent folder in which Joomal is installed on an Internet based host server is normally public_html. Hence your local computer should have a folder like D:\public_html.
NOTE: Normally the folder public_html is at root level. Not within another folder.
Your can create D:\public_html using Windows explorer.
Once D:\public_html is created create a folder named joomla within it.
Now Apache Web server needs to be informed of the existence of D:\public_html\joomla.
This is done by adding virtual domain codespec to Apache´s httpd.conf file.
The technique for doing this is described in The Joomla Virtual Domain tutorial on this website.
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