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            <h1>Installing Joomla! on Windows</h1>
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          <h2>What is Joomla?</h2>

<blockquote><em>Joomla! is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. Over the years Joomla! has won several awards. It is built on a model&ndash;view&ndash;controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS that allows you to build powerful online applications.</em> -<a href="https://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html" target="_blank">https://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html</a></blockquote>

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	<li>Download XAMPP <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Download Joomla! <a href="https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-9-24/Joomla_3-9-24-Stable-Full_Package.zip?format=zip" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_917989_0">Download Microsoft Visual C++ </label><label for="cb_li_917989_0"><a href="https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe" target="_blank">Download</a></label></li>
	<li>Install Microsoft Visual C++</li>
	<li>Right click the downloaded XAMPP file &gt; Extract All...</li>
	<li>Right click the downloaded Joomla! .zip file &gt; Extract All...</li>
	<li>Rename the extracted folder joomla</li>
	<li>Cut the joomla folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory</li>
	<li>Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example</li>
	<li>Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location</li>
	<li>Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe</li>
	<li>Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL</li>
	<li>Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin</li>
	<li>Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space &gt; Open PowerShell windows here...</li>
	<li>Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the Joomla! database
	<div class="codeBlock">./mysql -u root<br />
	CREATE DATABASE joomla DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;<br />
	GRANT ALL ON joomla.* TO &#39;joomla_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;J00mla!!&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	EXIT;</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/joomla</li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_138017_24">The Joomla! setup screen should be displayed</label></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_618739_26">Set the site title and create an administrative account login &gt; Click the Next button</label></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_618739_26">Enter the database configuration as follows:</label>
	<p>Database Type: MySQLi<br />
	Host Name: localhost<br />
	Username: joomla_rw<br />
	Password: J00mla!!<br />
	Database Name: joomla<br />
	Table Prefix: jmla_</p>
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	<li><label for="cb_li_618739_26">Click the Next button</label></li>
	<li>On the Overview page click the Install button</li>
	<li>Review the configuration and click the Install button</li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_676045_27">When the installation completes, click the yellow Remove &quot;installation&quot; folder button</label></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_676045_27">Click on the Site button</label></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_194715_28">Welcome to your very own, self-hosted Joomla! installation</label></li>
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