UPDATE:
You can follow the same method for installing Joomla 1.6.0 on CentOS
Joomla! is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web Application Development framework. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.
It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database. Here is the step by step guide of how to install joomla on CentOS.
Operating System
CentOS5.2
Joomla
Joomla v.1.5.10
Installing prerequisites:
Enabling RPM repositeries:
rpm -ivh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Enabling Utter Ramblings repositeries:
rpm --import http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka
Creating repo file:
touch /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo echo '[utterramblings]' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo echo "name=Jason’s Utter Ramblings Repo" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo echo 'baseurl=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL$releasever/$basearch/' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo echo 'enabled=1' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo echo 'gpgcheck=1' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo echo 'gpgkey=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo
Installing required packages:
yum -y install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel httpd php php-mysql
Creating database for joomla:
mysql -u root -p mysql>create database joomla; mysql>exit
echo "extension=mysql.so" >> /etc/php.ini
Installation of joomla:
Download and unzip the joomla package in your web root directory. In my case it is /var/www/html
Creating a temporary configuration file touch /var/www/html/joomla/configuration.php chmod 777 /var/www/html/joomla/configuration.php
Restart your web server:
service httpd restart
Enter the following url in your browser:
http://your_ip/joomla and follow the webinstallation process. It is quit simple.
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My name is Vidyadhar Sarmalkar & I work as a consultant and have done RHCE & CCNA. 
i do it already and completely.So I would like to appreciate for your information above.
I Use Centos for running Joomla. if anybody want me to show how to pls. write to me tjking2514@hotmail.com
Your effort is helpful.
I’m trying to install it in “CentOS5.4″
I’ve two questions:
1.I can’t login as ‘root’ in mysql.See below:
mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)
2.Why the others need write option in configuration.php ?
chmod 777 /var/www/html/joomla/configuration.php
Thanks.
Problem “1″ solved. I’ve login as ‘root’ and create the ‘joomla’ database.
But now in the configuration window is shows:
- MySQL Support No
All others are YES.
Have u restarted your mysql? have u restarted apache?
Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
I was missing *php-mysql*
After installing it with “yum install php-mysql” followed by restarting “mysqld” and “httpd” and a SELinux rule “setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1″
It’s working.
Your blog is really resourceful. ^_^
Hello
i have completed de steps you have indicated above but i can not touch configuration.php in joomla when i tipe de command it says:touch: cannot touch `/var/www/html/Joomla_1.5.18-Stable-Full_Package/configuration.php-dist’: No such file or directory
can you tell me why please
Run the below command
#touch /var/www/html/Joomla_1.5.18-Stable-Full_Package/configuration.php
Thanks for your replay
I have solved the problem but now another one appears.
when i type localhost/joomla in my browser it says: waiting for localhost
after that nothing appears in my browser page a big white page i have there
i can´t understand what is wrong
can you tell me please? thanks
It seems some dependencies issue. Have restarted your web server?
yes i have restarted the server but still the same problem
i am running joomla in cent os… while installing a new component i am having the error msg WARNING FAILED TO MOVE… can any 1 help me…