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When you first start up Joomla 1.x you will see something like this:
When you first start up Joomla 1.x you will see something like this:


[[image:joomla-1x-startpage.png|thumb|600x|Joomla 1.x default startpage]]
[[image:joomla-1x-startpage.png|thumb|800x|none|Joomla 1.x default startpage]]


Click on the administrator menu button and log in.
Click on the administrator menu button and log in.
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When you enter the administration tool, you can configure the portal through menus. The most important items are available through the control panel
When you enter the administration tool, you can configure the portal through menus. The most important items are available through the control panel


[[image:joomla-1x-main-control-panel.png|thumb|600x|Joomla 1.x Administrator Control Panel]]
[[image:joomla-1x-main-control-panel.png|thumb|800x|none|Joomla 1.x Administrator Control Panel]]


You then can for example contents.
You then can for example contents.
On the top right you have a help button that will provide some contextual help
On the top right you have a help button that will provide some contextual help


[[image:joomla-1x-add-contents.png|thumb|600x|Joomla 1.x Administrator Adding Contents page]]
[[image:joomla-1x-add-contents.png|thumb|800x|none|Joomla 1.x Administrator Adding Contents page]]


== Links ==
== Links ==

Revision as of 19:46, 4 November 2007

Homework 2 - COAP 3180 Fall 2 2007

COAP 3180 Course Page

Summary

Go on with the classroom activity, i.e.

  • Configure a portal in a WAMP setting
  • We strongly suggest to work with the Joomla portalware

Homework tasks

  1. Think about a web application done with a content management system
    • Examples: A portal for an association or an institution
  2. Select an environment to work with, i.e. choose between:
    • WOS on a memory stick. Easiest to install. Runs from any directory, including a memory stick
    • A WAMP of your choice on your personal laptop. We suggest to download and install WampServer. You get some extra functionality compared to WOS, but it will not run on a memory stick
    • Installation with a web hosting service. Best solution if you plan to profit from this course to start a web application that you actually might use.
  3. Write down functionalities one'd like to have
    • Implement the ones that you can manage
    • We will discuss the result during our next meeting and then discuss how add some more features to your portal

Dates

  • This homework is due at start of the week 3 Monday lesson
  • The instructor will ask you to present purpose and current state
  • A further homework will then require from you to add extra information / modules
  • Each homework counts 10% in your global evaluation. The six best homeworks will be taken into account.

Evaluation

  • Task completion (all required elements are present)
  • Quality of your configutation.
  • Note. Before I will evaluate this homework, we will discuss your first attempt in the classroom on week three.

Tip: Quality is essentially related to the idea that your applications are useful to a given range of users.


Tips on how to do this are below.

Tips about the LAMP/WAMP environment

WOS

The instructor will provide you with 2 versions of a wos distribution.

Medium distribution

wos-dist.zip - 28 MB
  • includes several web applications
  • May take up to an hour to unzip on a memory stick
  • Unzippe Size: about 182 MB (!) on a stick and 123 MB on a hard disk

Small distribution

wos-joomla.zip - 17MB
  • only includes the Joomla portal and the MySQL database server administration tool (phpmyadmin)
  • Unzips in about 20 minutes depending on your model
  • Unzipped Size: about 105MB on a memory stick and 77 MB on hard disk

You also can "mix" your own if you wish to try. Go to: http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wos/wos.htm?action=download

Make sur that you get:

  • An Apache webserver
  • A MySQL database server
  • A PhP
  • Joomla
  • Phpmyadmin

You always can add additional packages from the wos mixer web site

IMPORTANT:

  • Install a wos mix first on your harddisk. Installing it on a memory stick may create write errors. You then can copy to a memory stick (again this may take an hour or more, since memory sticks take a long time to copy a few thousands of little files).
  • If you have installed an application package (TYPO3, Joomla, WordPress etc.), the administration login always will be "admin" with the password "password"!

Here is a recent screendump of the WOS mixer:

WOS Mixer - selection of WAMP configuration and the Joomla! Portalware

Installation with a provider or a WAMP system

When installing it for the first time, Joomla! will ask for the following information:

  • The name of your MySQL database - (this may be pre-set on some hosted server set-ups)
  • The name of the MySQL host - This is usually called "localhost" if you are installing on a PC or a local server
  • A MySQL username - This may have been allocated by your server provider - a local MySQL installation generally has the default administrator username set as "root".
  • A MySQL password - This may have been allocated by your server provider - a local MySQL installation generally has the default administrator password set to a blank field, unless this was manually changed during installation of the database server.

Then read the installation manual (see below)

Help: the Joomla website includes various forms of help, e.g.

Joomla configuration

When you first start up Joomla 1.x you will see something like this:

Joomla 1.x default startpage

Click on the administrator menu button and log in. Default username and password in a WOS installation are admin and password.

When you enter the administration tool, you can configure the portal through menus. The most important items are available through the control panel

Joomla 1.x Administrator Control Panel

You then can for example contents. On the top right you have a help button that will provide some contextual help

Joomla 1.x Administrator Adding Contents page

Links

Main links in this wiki
Examples