Need help with Joomla

[mac173]

I have installed Joomla, the content manager in its own folder in my root directory. I can open the administrator panel, and I see lots of icons to add content and such, but I cannot see any reference to my website.

I have never used a content manager before, so I am totally lost.

Anyone know of a good tutorial for Joomla? They don't have one on their website, I looked.

 

[bub255]

Just remove the "administrator" from the URL

e.g :

www.yourdomain.com/administrator ==> the backend administration page
www.yourdomain.com ==> your live site

make sure your joomla installation folder is removed!

 

[limjix]

hey mac, can u help me with the installation?

i am stuck at the part of the MySQL database
When i enter everything and press next , they say access denied

 

[bub255]

hi limjix... you can use fantastico to install a fresh set of joomla, they've got stable v1.0.13 i think (IICM), all you have to do is to set an admin account for the backend access..

regarding with your problem, i think you are trying to install the Joomla CMS yourself maually... Anyway, please make sure that your MySQL username w/ right privileges, password, and database host, were correctly configured, to check your MySQL accounts and database, just click on the MySQL Databases icon on your cPanel... Basically, your database host is yourdomain.x10hosting.com

hope that'd help!

 

[mac173]

Just remove the "administrator" from the URL

e.g :

www.yourdomain.com/administrator ==> the backend administration page
www.yourdomain.com ==> your live site

make sure your joomla installation folder is removed!

Ok, when I do that, I get a Joomla website, not MY website. I installed Joomla in its own directory. Should I have installed it in the /root directory instead?

Also, when in Admin I see the icons to add content. I am clueless how these things work, which is why I was looking for a tutorial. CMS just may be beyond me, I don't know. What I need to do is EDIT content, not add it. Not sure how to do that though.

Thanks for the help.

 

[bub255]

Ok, when I do that, I get a Joomla website, not MY website. I installed Joomla in its own directory. Should I have installed it in the /root directory instead?

Also, when in Admin I see the icons to add content. I am clueless how these things work, which is why I was looking for a tutorial. CMS just may be beyond me, I don't know. What I need to do is EDIT content, not add it. Not sure how to do that though.

Thanks for the help.

Aw... mac173, its not a Joomla Website, its the frontend site, its the default and fresh joomla installation, with some example contents... see my post on what joomla is: http://forums.x10hosting.com/teh-intarwebz/35760-what-joomla.html#post220159

when you install joomla, some contents such as news, polls and etc (also know as sample contents) is included, depending on the installation settings if you want to install sample content or not... all you have to do is to modify these contents by accessing administrator (backend ==> www.yourdomain.com/administrator) site, there you can do all the modification you desired on the YOUR site (frontend ==> www.yourdomain.com)

you can edit the contents of your joomla site (frontend) by accessing its administrator side, all you have to to is to browse the page just like you are using a "web authoring tool"

e.g. you want to add news, at the menu bar (top) click on content, all contents, and the click the new icon, there you can type the info about you news, the title, the content type (news, newsflashes, etc), make sure you choose the published settings to be able for your news available on your site, if you want it to be on the front page(home page) of your site, click on "frontpage" check box, then click save... it should display on your site (frontend)...

you can also manage news entries there... actually not only news, also polls or survey, FAQs, links, depending on the components or modules (plugins) that is installed on your joomla site...

for more info about management of Joomla site, download their user's manual or visit their help site