Comments on: Installing Joomla 1.5.X On Ubuntu

By: ubun2Junky

ubun2Junky — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:47:07 +0000

Welcome back Kevin. The first thing I would do is check your symlink.
Just to give you a little background. In the tutorial I created a unique user, ‘joomlaUser’ that would be accessing the joomla files via ftp. Since only local users are allowed to login, when joomlaUser logs in by default this user is taken to it’s home folder which is located at /home/joomlaUser. However what we would like to do is have the joomlaUser access the joomla directory which is located at /var/www/joomla. In order to easily accomplish this I created a symlink that would map to the /var/www/joomla directory.
You can think of the symlink like a ’shortcut’, the command sudo ln -s /var/www/joomla /home/joomlaUser creates this symlink. The way to test it if it works is to list the contents of this directory. In your terminal type ls /home/joomlaUser (or whatever you named the joomla user account). Then type in ls /var/www/joomla. They should both be the same. /home/joomlaUser is pointing to /var/www/joomla, so it will display the exact same content. I would start there and make sure that the symlink was created properly. Hope this helps.

Ubun2Junky

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:45:43 +0000

Hey again.

So I came back here as I’d forgotten to set up joomla on linux (again =) i’m using joomla 1.5.20

Anyway, once I setup the joomla user and ftp password and all. problem now is once I log in into the backend and type it in, it doesn’t let me upload new templates. it says:

JFolder::files: Path does not point to a valid folder or the folder has been deleted.

how do I rectify this? and must I log in all the time with the ftp username and password?

Is there a way I can set myself (username that I log into) to be the ftpuser and password and work fine?

Thank you

By: ubun2Junky

ubun2Junky — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:55:43 +0000

Kevin;
I appreciate you pointing those discrepancies out. I initially made the changes on the spanish version of the blog, but they didn’t copy over to the english. I apologize! I’ve made the corrections that you’ve pointed out. I’m currently not running 9.04 yet, from the looks of it there have been some changes. I’ll be happy to install it and take a look. The only major thing that seems different it the ‘local_umask=022′, I’m going to assume that you just need to change it to ‘local_umask=077′. I’ll test it out and will post my findings. Please feel free to leave any further questions you may have, I’ll do what I can to assist!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:02:13 +0000

Seems like a great tutorial – thank you; just not working for me…
I also get stuck at the FTP stage getting a “Could not connect to the FTP server” message (using Ubuntu 9.10)

I was also confused at a couple of other points:
1. Ensure that local_mask is uncommented and looks like ‘local_mask=077′ (I only have ‘local_umask=022′ Is this the line that I should change? Should I remove the U?

2. * sudo useradd joomlaUse
* sudo passwd joomlaUser
Should both lines end with an “r”?

3. * sudo sudo wget http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/8232/30034/Joomla_1.5.15-Stable-Full_Package.zip
* sudo unzip Joomla_1.5.6-Stable-Full_Package.zip -d /var/www/joomla

Version numbers don’t match

I hope you don’t think I’m being critical – I want to know which bits are errors and which are correct! I know nothing!

Thanks for your generous work.

Kevin

By: ubun2Junky

ubun2Junky — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:26:46 +0000

Ganesh;
What is the error message you’re getting? Seems it didn’t get displayed in your last post. I’ll see if I can help.

By: Ganesh Chand Gupta

Ganesh Chand Gupta — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:26:19 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. it works fine up until the ftp part, where i cant seem to get it working. i keep getting the following error

By: ubun2Junky

ubun2Junky — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:56:16 +0000

Inprogress;
I completely understand where you’re coming from. Anyone that is new to Linux has to go through that steep learning curve. You are certainly not alone there. We all started somewhere and from my personal experience it was a steep curve for me, but I stuck with it. I certainly don’t consider myself an expert on the subject, but I try to share what little I know with others as best as I can.
I’m always open for recommendations and I appreciate your suggestions about perhaps explaining a bit more about the mechanics behind the scene. I can certainly do better than what I did. Perhaps I will add it as a side note for those that are interested.
However, I think you would agree with me that a tutorial can only cover the material to a certain degree. You mentioned that it would have been nice to have explained the menu system in nano.
I can compare that to someone writing a tutorial for html programming in windows and having to explain how to use notepad. To some extent you have to assume that your target audience has the necessary skills sets to accomplish the task. I do however see how nano compared to notepad might not seem as ‘intuitive’ and might require some explaining to someone new. Perhaps I can write a tutorial on using linux text editors like nano and vi! I’ve used nano for so long that I think I’ve taken for granted that it might be harder on others.
My recommendation to you would be to get more familiar with some of the tools like nano and vi. Those two tools are your best friends whenever you deal with anything linux. Good luck with your linux endeavors.

By: Inprogress

Inprogress — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:09:58 +0000

I think this is the problem I have with Linux tuts and helps as oppose to the MS tuts and helps I remember: Those tuts teach you about what you are doing and teaches you a few things above and beyond just the task at hand.

For instance, the changing of the php.ini lines. I see at the bottom of terminal there pops up menu with what seems to have a search function for the ini file. How do I use that? It would’ve been nice if you explained instead of “we need to find” to “use the search function like so and find the line much quicker.

Or explain where the places is that the files are now stored and what it means.

Maybe its just me, but really, one learns the most of a program when you have to do something, like now, I have to figure out how to install Joomla being kinda new still with Linux. But other teachings and guides explains to you what you are actually doing as oppose to just slap some functions and lines onto you to get the job done. You got the thing working, but you are none the wiser as to what exactly happened.

But I suppose I will be met with numerous comments of “Read the Linux Bible”

Thanks still for the tutorial. It did worked, up to a point where the terminal commands didn’t do what is explained. Don’t know why since I have no idea what I am doing.

So for future tuts, please think about possibly explaining WHAT is being done as oppose to solely explaining HOW it is done.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:54:52 +0000

You saved my day when I wanted to setup a test server at home, great work.

By: Cornel

Cornel — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:13:08 +0000

Best tutorial, thanks
had a small problem with the ftpUserName, no caps allowed, but it worked