I am interested in installing Joomla on my Fedora Core 4 Webserver? Does anyone have any suggestions?
Here it is. First you have to configure yum. * Open the terminal. Type: wget http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries...ries/rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm Hit enter. Wait for the download to complete. Type: su Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: rpm -Uvh *.rpm Hit enter. wait for the installation to complete. Type: rm *.rpm Type "y". Hit enter. Type: su - Hit enter. Type: gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo Hit enter and gedit will open. Type the following in gedit: [core] name=FreshRPMS-Core baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 [updates] name=FreshRPMS-Updates baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 [freshrpms] name=FreshRPMS-Fresh baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. Type the following in the root terminal: gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo Hit enter and gedit will open. Type the following in gedit: [dries] name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/ http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/fc4/$basearch/dries/RPMS/ failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. Type the following in the root terminal: gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/newrpms.repo Hit enter and gedit will open. Type the following in gedit: [newrpms.sunsite.dk] name=Fedora Core 4 i386 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk baseurl=http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/$basearch/fc$releasever http://newrpms.atrpms.net/apt/redhat/en/$basearch/fc$releasever failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. * While still in the root terminal type: rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt Hit enter. Type: rpm --import http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt Hit enter. Type: rpm --import http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/gpg-pubkey-newrpms.txt Hit enter. Type: rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/*GPG-KEY* Hit enter. You have just imported the GPG keys for your yum repositories. Type: yum update Hit enter. Your system will be updated. Answer "y" for "yes" in the appropriate places. Reboot. Then just type in "yum install joomla" as root
Is Apache already installed on your system? Then the default document root is /var/www/html, and you can install Joomla there as described in the Joomla installation notes.
