This HowTo describes simplified instruction for installing Joomla 2.5 content management system in Slackware 14.0. For more complex instructions you may want to read …

• start conditions is freshly installed Slackware 14.0 with option “Full install”.
• In configuring stage you choose to automatically start applications “apache” (rc.httpd) and “MySQL” (rc.mysqld)

1. Copy with rename /etc/mysql/my-large.cnf or another file from that directory, who meet your requirements, to /etc/my.cnf
2. Edit that /etc.my.cnf to add three lines after [mysqld], as there:

   [mysqld]
   collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci
   init-connect='SET NAMES utf8'
   character-set-server = utf8
    

3. After that, restart MySQL server.
4. Do as root

   mysql_install_db --user=mysql 

5. Do as root

    mysql_secure_installation 

   , and set mysql root password ( and write it down or remember), and choose all default answers

6. After that, do

    mysql -u root -p 

   after write user password, be in mysql>. write

    CREATE USER 'joomla_db_username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'joomla_db_user_password'; 

   , where joomla_db_user is user, who you make for under who your joomla stores information in mysql. joomla_db_user_paswword is your choosing password for that mysql user.

7. write

    GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP ON yourdatabasename_for_joomla.* to 'joomla_db_username'@'localhost'; 

8. after that do

    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

   and then

    quit

9. and finally, do from bash

    mysqladmin -u joomla_db_username -p create yourdatabasename_for_joomla 

   it need input of your “joomla_db_username” password, seems as “joomla_db_user_password” in that instruction.

10. That's all, your MySQL will be ready to install and configure Joomla.

1. Open /etc/httpd/httpd.conf in a text editor such as vi or nano.
2. Change the ServerAdmin and ServerName variables to your liking.
3. Change the first encounter of Directive

   <Directory />
       AllowOverride none
       Require all denied
   </Directory>

   to:

   <Directory />
       Options FollowSymLinks Includes
       AllowOverride None
   </Directory>

4. Next, edit “/etc/httpd/httpd.conf” to configure a new DocumentRoot. By default the Apache DocumentRoot is the directory “/srv/httpd/htdocs”. We will change that to the Joomla installation directory. In this example, we will install Joomla to “/srv/httpd/beautifulsite.com”.
   Search for the two directives

   DocumentRoot "/srv/httpd/htdocs"

   and

   <Directory "/srv/httpd/htdocs">

   and change both values from “/srv/httpd/htdocs” to “/srv/httpd/beautifulsite.com”.

5. Next, look at below section:

    
       #
       # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
       # or any combination of:
       #   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
       #
       # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
       # doesn't give it to you.
       #
       # The Options directive is both complicated and important.  Please see
       # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#options
       # for more information.
       #
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
       
       #
       # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
       # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
       #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
       #
       AllowOverride None
       
       #
       # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
       #
       Require all granted
   </Directory>

   and change following:

   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews ExecCGI
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow, deny
   Allow from All

   and comment the line “Require all granted”

6. At the bottom of the file, change the section

   <IfModule dir_module>
       DirectoryIndex index.html
   </IfModule>

   adding “index.shtml index.php” after “index.html”.

7. Comment out the string “AddHandler cgi-script .cgi”
8. Uncomment the php module:

   Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf

   and save the file.

9. Next, edit the file “/etc/httpd/php.ini”
10. Search for string

    output_buffering = 4096 

    and change them to

    output_buffering = Off 

11. Save the file, and finally restart the webserver:

    root@darkstar:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart

#Include /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

1. Download a Joomla tarball at http://www.joomla.org/download.html, choose the “Full package, Zip” archive.
2. We install Joomla as the Apache Webserver's DocumentRoot, which we configured as “/srv/httpd/beautifulsite.com” in the previous section. Create a new directory called “beautifulsite.com” under “/srv/httpd/”. We will end up with the new directory “/srv/httpd/htdocs/beautifulsite.com” which will be used by Apache as the DocumentRoot.
3. Uncompress the joomla zip-file into that directory:

   root@darkstar:~# unzip Joomla_2.5.9-Stable-Full_Package.zip -d /srv/httpd/htdocs/beautifulsite.com

4. As root, change the file ownership to the Apache user:

   root@darkstar:~# chown -R apache:apache /srv/httpd/beautifulsite.com

5. The initial Joomla configuration is done in a web browser (preferably from another computer workstation). Enter our “http://beautifulserver.com” URL in the browser's addressbar. This will start start the web-based configuration of our newly installed Joomla CMS. When you get to the database configuration, the better choice is “mysqli”. Input is also required for the Joomla database username and password. The rest of the configuration is straight-forward.

• Original source: MySQL config to UTF8 support.

• Originally written by John Ciemgals