in stalling Joomla

[Michael Havens]

I am now up and running.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> yeah... I figured that when you said 'While you at it, look into how to
> create a user, you will need to do that in order for the Joomla installed
> to attach onto the database and create it's initial database.' So I looked
> into it and I am off to the next section!
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>
>> You are probably at the part where it is asking to to supply a database
>> user name and password.  It's not asking you for names of stuff which it
>> will create, it's asking you to supply the username and password of an
>> already existing mysql user.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> On 02/01/2013 01:49 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>>> yeah apparently 'could not connect' does not mean  'not installed'. lol
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     the computer says that both packages are already installed but the
>>>     joomla instalation still says: Could not connect to the database.
>>>     Connector returned number: Unable to connect to the Database: Could
>>>     not connect to MySQL.
>>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
>>>     <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Install the package mysql-server and also make sure you have the
>>>         package php5-mysql installed.
>>>
>>>         Brian
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 02/01/2013 01:28 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>>             it is asking me for a database so I figure mysql but it
>>>             isn't installed.
>>>             No problem.... I'll apt-get it. Apt-get install mysql<tab
>>>             tab> gives a
>>>             lot of download candidates though. Which should I install?
>>>             I'm thinking
>>>             mysql-server but there is also  ...server-5.5 and
>>>             ...server-core-5.5.
>>>             Here are the candidates:
>>>             $ sudo apt-get install mysql
>>>             mysql-client           mysql-mmm-tools        mysql-testsuite
>>>             mysql-client-5.5       mysql-proxy
>>>               mysql-testsuite-5.5
>>>             mysql-client-core-5.5  mysql-server           mysqltuner
>>>             mysql-common           mysql-server-5.5       mysql-utilities
>>>             mysql-mmm-agent        mysql-server-core-5.5  mysql-workbench
>>>             mysql-mmm-common       mysql-source-5.5
>>>             mysql-workbench-data
>>>             mysql-mmm-monitor      mysqltcl
>>>             :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>>             On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Michael Havens
>>>             <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>>             <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                  thanks, Brian:)
>>>                  :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>>                  On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Brian Cluff
>>>             <brian at snaptek.com <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>
>>>                  <mailto:brian at snaptek.com <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>>>
>>>
>>>             wrote:
>>>
>>>                      On 02/01/2013 12:48 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>>                          I'm at pre instalation checklist now. One of
>>>             the issues I
>>>                          have with this
>>>                          section is that my outpu buffering is set to on
>>>             and they
>>>                          recommend off.
>>>                          I think I am going to leave it as it stands now
>>>             but wanted
>>>                          to get advise.
>>>
>>>
>>>                      I believe that setting is optional, so you should
>>>             be safe
>>>                      leaving it along as it won't really matter for a
>>>             personal site.
>>>
>>>
>>>                          The other issue is configuration.php Writeable.
>>>             After
>>>                          googling a little
>>>                          I figured I bette make it writable and so did.
>>>
>>>
>>>                      Yup, you have to make it writable so that it can
>>>             create and
>>>                      modify the config.  Later once you have everything
>>>             set like you
>>>                      like it, you can safely set it to read only and
>>>             that can help
>>>                      with security.
>>>
>>>                      Brian Cluff
>>>
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