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Author: Tom Haws
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Subject: Re: joomla
Very good. Congratulations.

--
"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you
will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> got it working! Thanks. I had to delete everything in the sites directory
> and unpack joomla again to trigger the reinstall of joomla but it's all
> working. yipee!
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Tom Haws <> wrote:
>
>> Hmm. These are always a headache to install when you are new. You are
>> almost there now. Did you set up the Joomla admin username and password
>> somewhere? I assume those would be in the configuration.php file. One
>> possible approach is to delete that file and see if you can trigger Joomla
>> to redo the installation now that you have the MySQL set up correctly. It
>> wouldn't be a bad refresher. ???
>>
>> Tp,
>>
>> --
>> "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you
>> will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Michael Havens <>wrote:
>>
>>> I found instructions to:
>>>
>>> Check your tmp and logs folder paths inside the main configuration.php
>>> file and make sure those folders are world writeable, 777 should work…
>>>
>>> And I changed the permissions of those two folders. Unfortunately, now
>>> when I load the admin page I am told:
>>>
>>> Warning
>>>
>>> Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet.
>>>
>>> But I just got done creating it for sure!
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Michael Havens <>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Tom. So I need to create a new MySL for every site.
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Tom Haws <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm no wizard at this, but I always start mysql like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> mysql -uroot -p
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, are you saying you gave Joomla the mysql root username and
>>>>> password to use?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return,
>>>>> you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Michael Havens <>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> so is this for each 'site' I create? I did create a user and I am
>>>>>> told:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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!.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> which says he doesn't have the proper permissions.. But the
>>>>>> username is 'root'. Doesn't that mean he has permission to do anything?
>>>>>> Please, tell me what I need to do to give him the permissions he needs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, this is strange: I can start mysql as my user but not with
>>>>>> sudo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ sudo mysql
>>>>>> ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
>>>>>> password: NO)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So what do I need to do?
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Tom Haws <> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You do need to create a MySQL user and database for Joomla. And you
>>>>>>> do need to give that user all the required permissions on the Joomla
>>>>>>> database. Then all you have to tell Joomla is the name of the database and
>>>>>>> the MySQL username and password.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return,
>>>>>>> you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Michael Havens <>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think I know what I need to do.... add my user to the mysql group
>>>>>>>> (or whatever it is called).
>>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Michael Havens <>wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> so how do I set it up correctly? I mean it was working!
>>>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michael Havens <>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> but before I created the link it went to the admin page.
>>>>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:41 PM, keith smith <
>>>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 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/<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 <
>>>>>>>>>>> <http://mc/compose?to=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.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------
>>>>>>>>>>> Keith Smith
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> --- On *Tue, 2/26/13, Michael Havens <<http://mc/compose?to=bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> >* wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> From: Michael Havens <<http://mc/compose?to=bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: joomla
>>>>>>>>>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <<http://mc/compose?to=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 <
>>>>>>>>>>> <http://mc/compose?to=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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