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/<etc> . 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 <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> 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. 



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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 2/26/13, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: joomla
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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~(-:



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