This article describes very rough how I created Arlukin Articles in
Joomla. The Joomla version is not alive any longer and two other
versions has existed after that. One in wordpress
and currently with Jekyll.
I have
done it in a step by step form, so it should be possible to just repeat
all my steps and get a nice working Joomla site. Of course you don’t
even need to go through all these steps to get your Joomla site up and
running. This is more of a guide to the tweaks I have done to this
web-page. After the main installation I have done a few tweaks which
are not commented in the below text. I will most certainly do more tweaks
in the future. But this gives a pretty good understanding of how you install Joomla.
Joomla extensions used on this site.
Simple module to view the Google adsense module that can be seen in the right column on the website.To learn more about Google adsense click here. I did have some trouble to get my account verified. Actually still after 2 weeks, it’s not verfied. I’m starting to think that the my account has been droped in the trach or something.
If you wold like to get some nice visiting statistics, this is the app for you. Read more on Google analytics by clicking here.
Rewrites your URLs, meta tags etc to make your webpage more searchengine friendly.
Adds a comment area below every article on the site. So visiters of the site can comment what I have been writing.
The template I have based the webpage on. Slightly modified, I hope that is okay with the guys at http://joomla.server-germany.de/ that did the template.
Install the Joomla code
Download joomla from [here][http://www.joomla.org/download.html]
mkdir /var/www/articles.cybercow.se
cd /var/www/articles.cybercow.se
wget http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/9910/37908/Joomla_1.5.10-Stable-Full_Package.zip
unzip Joomla_1.5.10-Stable-Full_Package.zip
rm Joomla_1.5.10-Stable-Full_Package.zip
- Browse http://localhost
- Click next
- Click next
- Click next
- Choose
mysqli
localhost
username
pass
database name
delete existing tables
- Click Next
- Click Next
- Enter
Site name: Articles
Email: articles at cybercow dot se
- Click “Install sample data”
-
Click next
rm -R installation/
rm INSTALL.php
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .
mv htaccess.txt .htaccess
Remove old data
Choose menu “Content – Article Manager”
- Click “#” to select all check boxes
- Click Trash
- Repeat 3 times
- Click “#” to select all check boxes
- Click Delete
- Click Delete
- repeat 3 times
- Click “#” to select all check boxes
- Click Delete
- Click “#” to select all check boxes
- Click Delete
- Click “TopMenu”
- Click Delete
- Click Delete
- Repeat for “Resources”, “Example Pages”, “Key Concepts”
Choose menu “Menus – main menu”
- Click all items
- Click Trash
- Click “#” to select all check boxes
- Click Delete
- Click Delete
- Click “#” to select all check boxes
- Click Delete
- Click Categories
- Click “#” to select all check boxes
- Click Delete
- Click New
- Title: What’s new
- Click Save
- Click Feeds
- Click New
- Name
Add new articles
- Click New
- Title: Articles
- Click Save
- Click New
- Title: General
- Click Save
- Repeat with Development and Linux
Choose menu “Content – Article manager”
- Click New
- Title: Welcome to articles.cybercow.se
- Section: Article
- Category: General
- Body: XXXXX
- Click Save
- (Repeat for all categorys)
Choose menu “Content – Article manager”
- Click New
- Title: XXXX
- Section: Articles
- Category: General
- Body: XXXXX
- Click Save
- (Repeat for all categorys)
Choose menu “Menus – Main menu”
- Click new
- Click article layout
- Title: Home
- Select Article: Welcome to article.cybercow.se
- Click Save
- Click Home
- Click Default
Found here
cd ~
wget http://blog.janzikmund.cz/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mod_autgen_menu.zip
- Browse the file
- Click Update file & Install
- Click “AutGen menu”
- Enter
Title: Articles
Enabled: yes
Position: Right
Choose section: Articles
Category ordering: By order as set in administration
Section ordering: By order as set in administration
- Click Save
- Repeat with Development/Linux)
Install template
Found here
cd templates
wget http://www.themes-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/motherbot.zip
unzip motherbot.zip
rm motherbot.zip
- Click “Your favorite Template”
- Click default
Site configuration
- Name: Daniel Lindh
- Click Save
- Click Site tab
- Write Global site Meta desc
- Write Global Site Meta Keywords
- Search Engine Friendly URL: yes
- Use Apache mod_rewrite: Yes
- Add suffix to URLs: yes
- Click system tab
- Allow User Registration: No
- New User Account Activation: No
- Front-end User Parameters: No
- Click server tab
- Time zone: UTC +1
- Click save
Choose “Components – Polls”
- Click check box for “Joomla is used for?”
- Click delete
- Click new
Title/Alias: This site
Published: yes
Options: “Is crap”, “Is good”, “I’ll be back”
- Click save
Choose “Components – Banner – Banners”
- Click “#” all Text ads but Joomla
- Click delete
- Click joomla
Title: Hyra fritidshus
Custom Banner Code: ….
- Click save
Choose “Components – Banner – Client manager”
- Click “Open source matters.”
Client name: Sveaborg
Contact email: [email protected]
- Click save
- Choose “Login Form”
Enabled: Yes
Position: Right
Menus: All
- Click Save
- Choose User Menu
Position:Right
Click Save
Choose Polls
Position: Right
Menus: All
Poll: This site
- Click save
- Choose Advertisement
Show title: no
Menus: all
Footer text: [remove]
- Click save
- Choose Random Image
Show title: no
Menus all
Image folder: images/stories
- Click save
- Choose Latest news
Title: Latest Articles
Position:right
Show title: yes
Enabled: yes
Order: Recently modified first
Menus: all
- Click save
- Choose “Who’s Online”, “Footer”, “Statistics”, “Archive”, “Sections”, “Related Items”, “Wrapper”, “Feed display”, “Main menu”, “breadcrumbs”, “News flash”, “Popular”
- Click Delete
- Change the orders for the componets to reflect this order.
Latest Articles
Articles
User Menu
Advertisement
Polls
Random image
Login form
- Click the floppy to save.
Install Google Adsense plugin
Found here
File to download
- Browse the file
- Click Update file & Install
- Enter
Enabled: Yes
Show title: No
Position: Right
Menus: All
- Click Save
- Order field for Sponsored Links 10
Click floppy to save.
Install Google analytics plugin
Found here
File to download:
- Browse the file
- Click Update file & Install
- Choose “System – BIGSHOT Google Analytics”
Enabled: Yes
Web Property ID: {found on www.google.com/analytics}
- Click Save
Install sh404sef Extension
Found here
File to download:
- Browse the file
- Click Update file & Install
- Click “Click here to extended display..”
- Choose sh404sef cofiguration
Enabled: yes
Unique ID: yes
- Click tab Plugins
- Click yes for all under “Content configuration”
- Click tab Advanced
Rewriting mode “With .htaccess)
Encode URL: yes
- Click tab META/SEO
Insert h1 tags: yes
- Click save
Found here
File to download:
File to download
File to download
- Browse the “ChronoComents…. Express Install” file
- Click Update file & Install
- Browse the “mod_chronocomments” file
- Click Update file & Install
- Click Parameters
Sections: Articles
Show comments link in blog view: Enabled
Guest can post: yes
New comments default to: Published
Show Captcha: Enabled
Enable BBCode: Yes
Enable BBCode Panel: yes
Enable sh404SEF mode: yes
- Click save
