You should now have a shiny new installation of Joomla on your Mac where you can develop your website securely in your local environment. Run through the Joomla installation process and voila! (need help installing Joomla? See: ).In your broswer navigate to (or whatever name you gave your directory).

Rename the unzipped folder to mysite (or whatever you wish).

just unzip the file each time you wish to have a new Joomla installation! Leave a copy of this zip file in the htdocs directory for easy creation of multiple Joomla sites. Then, access the Joomla Extension Manager by going to Extensions -> Extension Manager-> Upload Package File tab. First, you need to login to the administrative area of your Joomla website.

Copy/move the downloaded version of Joomla 1.5 to your Applications/MAMP/htdocs directory and unzip the file. All Joomla extensions come in the form of compressed files and are installed via the Extension Manager.

**For all databases created in MAMP the default username / password is: root / root, and the Host Name that you will use when installing Joomla is: localhost.

Set up your database for Joomla by clicking on the phpMyAdmin link in the start page and inserting the name you wish to use for your database in the 'Create new database' field.

If not, click on the 'Open start page' in the MAMP window.

Once the servers have started, a browser window should open to the MAMP start page.

If not, click on the Open start page in the MAMP window. Once the servers have started, a browser window should open to the MAMP start page.

Start MAMP by double clicking on the MAMP icon in your Applications/MAMP directory. Start MAMP by double clicking on the MAMP icon in your Applications/MAMP directory.

Download the latest Joomla 1.5 zip file.

Download and install MAMP to your Applications directory.

We're going to use MAMP for this tutorial. Following on the newsletter from last week where we talked about developing locally and moving your site to a live server, this week we're going to walk you through installing Joomla locally, on a Mac.

Install joomla for mac