Topic: joomla - more than one instance

[bradleyj00]

I have installed joomla using the contrib, and it's be working great. I'd like to host a couple more joomla sites on my sme server. Has anyone done this? Any advice or direction would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim

[Stefano]

AFAIR there should be something about it here in the forums..

[janet]

bradleyj00

Search forums on Joomla and read this
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Site_Maker

Also see this re generic howto
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,44231.msg212366.html#msg212366

[mmccarn]

According to this post, multiple joomla installs using SME_Site_Maker works fine:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,40091.msg184742.html#msg184742

[gundar]

Hi

I was just looking into this and noted a few things:

Joomla setup is pretty much the same as Wordpress - create a MySQL user and database and edit the PHP config script from wherever you want to run it. Reading the seemingly simple installation on the Joomla website for manual installs, I can't see why Joomla cannot be expanded into a folder in an iBay, a database and db user created and the domain of choice resolves to the iBay in question?

Is this a possible and easy way to do this? What would be missing if it was done this way? I am happy to post step by step if it is a good way to do this.

Any comments on this proposed method welcome.

Gund

[tkibugu]

I'd like to host a couple more joomla sites on my sme server. Has anyone done this?

Hello, in my case,
1. I followed instructions at http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,40091.msg184742.html#msg184742
2. extracted the joomla tarball to location I specified above
3. I followed instructions at http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,35553.msg156391.html#msg156391 ( I substituted primary domain with a new domain I created earlier in server-manager -> domains, I also substituted /opt/joomla with location in step 2.)

HTH

[gundar]

I looked at the links, but too much steps to complete.

I already have an ibay which resolves a public domain name which I bought, along with a fixed IP address from my ISP. That means, when you go to www.mydomain.com, it picks up \\server\ibay\html\index.php of wordpress which resolves to \\server\ibay\html\wordpress\... That means the ibay only has wordpress folder and index.php file in it (I setp Wordpress to use a folder as the instructions on the WordPress site).

I want to switch user from Wordpress to Joomla gradually and allow them to copy over info in their own time.

Server 7.3
smeserver-remoteuseraccess contrib - http://wiki.contribs.org/FTP_Access_to_Ibays - follow these instructions to make sure you have a user with complex password who can ftp into www.mydomain.com/joomla.
smeserver-phpmyadmin contrib

1. Create folder \\server\ibay\html\joomla
2. Download latest stable Joomla and extract to folder \\server\ibay\html\joomla
3. Open PHPMyAdmin of the server and create a new user with complex password (and check the option to create db and grant all acess to new user of same name).
4. From private network open browser to http://server/ibay/joomla and it will open index.php to start the web based setup. Ignore warning about no permissions to write configuration and next.
5. Read license and next.
6. DB is MySQL, localhost and username/password/dbname created in step 3 (you did write it down?)
7. Use FTP information from remoteuseraccess contrib. I got a warning about compatibility but skipped it;-)
8. Site specific info for your site and click install sample data.
9. Copy generated php info to file configuration.php and place in \\server\ibay\joomla (root of joomla)
9. Remove installation directory as required.

Login and have fun.

You can test from www.mydomain.com/joomla while www.mydomain.com still goes to wordpress (in time, joomla can be redirected from www.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com/joomla or the index.php file can be modified.

Now do this exact same steps again, except use a different ibay, username, db and FQDN. EAch time, you will have a unique Joomla installation.

Hope this helps.


Gund