Installing and Running Joomla! 3: Local and Web-Hosted Sites

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Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source content management systems in the world, powering over 30 million websites. In this course Jen Kramer will help you install Joomla! locally or remotely, so you can run it from your own computer or on a web host everyone can access.

Learn how to install Joomla! with either WAMP (Windows) or MAMP (Mac) stacks, configure Joomla! on a web host, and move your site from a web-hosted environment to a local one—or vice versa. Plus, learn the keys to administering Joomla!, both locally and remotely, including updating Joomla! when the next version is released.

00-Introduction
01-Welcome
02-Understanding Joomla!
03-Running Joomla! locally vs. hosting

01-Working with Joomla! Locally
01-WAMP, MAMP, and XAMPP
02-Installing Joomla! 3.3 with WAMP
03-Installing Joomla! 3.3 with MAMP
04-Backups while working locally
05-Turning off WAMP error reporting

02-Working with Joomla! on a Web Host
01-Choosing a good web host
02-Installing Joomla! on Bluehost
03-Placing a site in offline mode and changing the offline image
04-Moving Joomla! installations from one directory to another

03-PHP Versioning
01-PHP version errors
02-Update PHP in MAMP
03-Update PHP in WAMP

04-Moving Your Site for Development and Deployment
01-Moving your web-hosted site to a local environment
02-Moving your local site to a web-hosted environment

05-Joomla! Administration
01-Editing the site from the front end
02-Updating Joomla! to the next version
03-Understanding the extension update icon