3. Installing and Configuring Joomla!

This chapter explains how to download and manually install Joomla! and describes the basic configuration options. The screenshots and instructions reference a common Web hosting control panel called Cpanel. Cpanel is an interface that allows users to have control over the various functionalities of their hosting account. A number of hosts have their own hosting control panel account interfaces that are similar to Cpanel, and your host will have documentation that shows you the equivalent actions and functions that we describe in this walk-through. The main functions we reference are creating a database, accessing phpMyAdmin, and using File Manager. If your host does not use Cpanel, please reference the documentation ...

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