Sounds like your install is not installed correctly.  ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Tue, 2/26/13, Michael Havens wrote: From: Michael Havens Subject: Re: joomla To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 3:05 PM I've already installed it on my local machine. The reason I'm thinking I need a database for each webpage is that I created a link to the webpage's location in /var/www in an experiment to be able to not store the page in /var/www but rather in ~/Documents/ . Then when I went to the admin page it wanted to setup joomla again. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:55 AM, keith smith wrote: Mike, It appears you are thinking a DB is a physical thing like a static webpage.  It is physical in that it resides on your file system, however it is not like a static webpage. Take a look at these tutorials http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/tutorial.html.  They should help you understand the what and how of databases, specifically MySql. Here is some PHP info on how to work with MySql databases  http://www.php.net/manual/en/set.mysqlinfo.php. I would recommend understanding the basics before trying to install Joomla on your local LAMP install.  ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Tue, 2/26/13, Michael Havens wrote: From: Michael Havens Subject: Re: joomla To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 12:27 AM I was thinking..... Do you need to create a new database for every new website? If so I think I need to chown the database or maybe add it to a group. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Michael Havens wrote: why is it asking for database info?! oh bother.well I tried to create a database but this is the error it gives: An error occurred while trying to create the database onlineworkfinder.us. The user may not have enough privileges to create a database. The required database may need to be created separately before you can install Joomla!. So please, what do I need to do. Should I chown something? If so, what?:-)~MIKE~(-: -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss