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Moving on from Help to make a web server, please? as a milestone was achieved, there, thank you and my help request has been narrowed down, as a result.

During the Joomla installation, I installed the sample data and have figured out how to access the frontpage and local administration page:



This is exciting! This local website has the domain name we bought and everything! However, I don't know what to do next. There is a wysiwyg html editor, it looks like, and I'm pretty comfortable making something with that to put the first revision on the www asap. The sample data contains a lot of local faq and other orienting info, so I don't want to trash that. I see "archive" and maybe some link to that can be maintained. Also, I see a "front page" selection for my new creation and that might do what I want, if the docs will remain close at hand. Fearless Leader spoke of creating users and, frankly, I haven't the foggiest why. Maybe new user will let me create something separate, easily. The template seems to be blog and I can work with that but maybe there is something more appropriate for a simple business web presence, something like:

1. Some graphical hint of the salon nature, maybe small photo(s) of owner, shop, etc.
2. Services and price lists.
3. Contact info, email, phone, maybe a map.
4. I see there are language packs, maybe Spanish, Vietnamese, something like that would be useful....

So much to learn! (Coming soon, routing configurations. )

Ok I start with the easy one.
You do not have to register new users. You can have several users with different roles - but no need.
In general have no respect for the control panel delete and play around until it is perfect. Make a backup of the database in phpmyadmin. If you fubar you will go back to start, by importing the database again (like we did with that other CMS) . it is that easy!

Hang on going for and Cognac will be back with more......
Ahh thats better! Ok this is the part were I decided to program my own CMS because of the endless choices in Joomla. It is important to realize that you will not be needing 90 % of them and you might want to add some extensions to get what you want. It is a framework - kind off.
Do you need something like this?
http://demo.artetics.com/index.php?opti ... Itemid=145

This is an example of what you can add and administer with the extensions->module manager. That is where you activate the different modules.
Here is a tutorial:
http://www.phoca.cz/video/phocagallery-install
You will need to do a chmod 777 -R on /home/guru_berserk/joomla/tmp and temporary chmod module to 777 (and then back to 755).

This will provide you with a gallery and make it even more difficult to pick....

I would start with renaming the sections to whatever you need. Then you can start with editing articles and adding them to the sections.
You can upload pics in the articles.
b1o
(while I put together a language tutorial)

OK the language part goes approximately like this:
1
Download the desired language from here
You might be redirected a bit but find the Spanish zip and remember where you downloaded it.
2
Goto Extensions in the control panel and pick Install/Uninstall

3 Enter the path to the zipped file in Install from Directory

Now we take a brake and go to /var/www/html/joomla/administrator/ and chmod the language folder to 777.

Same thing with /var/www/html/joomla/language folder.

Now we go back to our Joomla control panel and hit the install button.

Got to Extensions->Language Manager and pick your default language for the Site and for the Admin part.

Remember to chmod your language folders back.
That is it.

Hi, I didn't see all the links when I first looked and will spend some time with them after I report progress. I've been buying a new heavy-duty clutch for my truck and getting it situated at Jim's house, where he does excellent mechanic work for me at very reasonable rates. Let me know when you are in town with vehicle maintenance needs...



In order to "rake hay while the sun shines|surgery heals", I've bought the dyndns service (and performed their easy to follow steps for configuring my router), delegated their resolvers @ my domain.com account, installed Tomato firmware (easy, one-step, better for me wrt the dd-wrt convolutions, afaict) as this firmware has the "static dhcp" feature that makes my life simple......-----> lanlesalon.com

So, apache is live and I see that file is part of apache-conf at /var/www/html/index.html I have the l33t net admin mad skilz to make that my new webpage but maybe you could point me more effectively, now that you know what I see.
Thx.

p.s. I was writing at the same time you were. Thanks for all that work. I'll study it.

You are online Great! The rest is an eternal maintenance job I can see your Joomla too
Redirection script coming up.....
Replace your index.html with this one:


And My BMW 4x4 with xDrive (X3) is what the doctor ordered in this weather we are having here. It still works - but it never lasts so I'll stop by when the clutch brakes down

viking60 wrote:..
Replace your index.html with this one:
..

I did that and see index.php gets loaded, similar to index.html, when no other file is given.
There is my little front page article "Welcome to Lan Le's Elegant Styling Salon!" that I made in the Joomla editor but making it the frontpage or #1 in the frontpage manager did not replace php.html for me. I look at all the different modules in the control panel but don't know how to edit the outward-looking landing page, don't have any experience with php, a little, over the years, with html. I will study, some more.
Thanks!

You can redirect to any page by editing the path in the index.html
i.e. hair_coming_soon.html
The .htaccess can control what pages to auto load like index.html index.php default.html default.php etc.
Index.html and index.php are default in apache,

Merry Christmas, everybody.

I spent a little google time trying to understand deleting the sample data, where it is, what it means to do that. Presently, I came across this and the rest is history.

I've now got two boxes that do important duty in my studio cave. One's the good old Asus P5Q Deluxe desktop and the new kid is the server, based on the motherboard I bought from Rudy Hartmann, the Model XXL-USA. Originally, I thought to use it as a DVR box for ota tv but that didn't happen. It's lower power consumption, with only one hard drive, I thought would be helpful when leaving the pc on to make a scheduled recording while I was out and it also makes it the better candidate for a 24/7 amp sponge server. After ~10.5 years running linux/computers, `uptime` will have my attention for the first time.

I've got the desktop hooked to the Samsung lcd monitor via HDMI and the server box via the other, DVI, connection. It gets a bit gnarly, with two keyboards/mice in front of me, toggling the "source" switch on the monitor, regularly force-of-habit leads to my typing on the wrong keyboard.
So, I'm jazzed I can log into Joomla with just the desktop and did the mass deletion, there. That ostraining.com site seems to have some very good material, at a price. However, my next task, as I see it, is to configure Joomla to display the stuff I'd like it to. I think there will be sufficient data on the net. Is there any such thing as a WYSIWYG php editor?

Oh yes there are several WYSIWYG editors. In fact you have a small one already
The first one here is superduper though.
That is only for the content and the text.
PHP editor? - I use Bluefish or Netbeans, They are not exactly WYSIWYG though.

I uploaded/installed the ckeditor plugin but don't see where to make it default, when I click on the article in article manager, the tinymce editor opens it. In plugin manager, I played around, reset the order but with ckeditor as first (0), tinymce opens, if I disable tinymce, nothing opens, just a blank page. Here is a copy of what I did in the plugin manager: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1286780/lan/plu ... r.php.html

Edit:
Yes, google is my friend. http://www.howtojoomla.net/2006091713/h ... wyg-editor

So far so good then