Installing Joomla!1.5.12

For installing Joomla! 1.5.12 on your computer, then the steps you can do are below :

1. If you do not have the installation files Joomla then you can download it at www.joomla.org first for free. If you had had the installation file, just put it directly on its destination folder(htdocs folder inside xampp folder). For example C:\xampp\htdocs (should be put in the form of *. rar / *. zip first). Open xampp folder, and find htdocs folder.
   
   

2. After you put the installation file, then do the extraction in the same directory. Click right side on your mouse, and click Extract files.
   
   
   
   

3. To make a different name with an existing file name, rename files in order to make easy for you when the installation process begin. For example, I rename the files with my own name.
   
   
   
   

4. After that, open the file by typing localhost / filename in the address bar of your web browser(Mozilla firefox). For example http://localhost/fortunela , after you type then press Enter. It will automatically display installation such as the following, which led to a folder in directory http://localhost/fortunela/installation/index.php.
   
   
   
   

5. In this page, you can choose your preferable language. If you just want to select English, then press Next button. It will display the next page. Just click Next button again.
   
   
   
   

6. The next page is license page. In order to not to wasting time, just click Next button again.
   
   
   
   

7. After that you will see the database configuration page. In this moment you have to configure your database with Joomla!. Fill the Host Name menu tab with “localhost”, and Username menu tab with “root”, and Database Name with your own database name(ex. Fortunela). Just leave the password tab menu.
   
   
   
   

8. Then the system will show a FTP Configuration that allows you to configure it. Just leave it like that, just press the Next button.
   
   
   
   

9. After you see a FTP Configuration, you will see the Main Configuration for your website. Fill the Site Name tab, E-Mail tab, Admin Password, and confirm it. Do not fill another tab, because it’s only for advance user. Then click “install sample data”. After that, the button will changed into “sample data installed successfully”. Then press Next button.
   
   
   
   
   

10. After this step, go to your xampp installation directory. Go to C:/, then open xampp folder, find the installation folder. Just delete or rename it.
    
    
    
    

11. Now, your installation is completed. Congratulation!