- Upload your Joomla folder (Windows PC) to SME Server /opt/joomla folder using WinSCP. This means overwriting files on /opt/joomla if there are. No need to include installation folder if it does exist.
- Putty to the server and issue these commands:
chown -R www:www /opt/joomla/
cd /opt/joomla
find . –type f –exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . –type d –exec chmod 755 {} \; - Export your database & import it to the server using PHPmyAdmin.
- Login to your Joomla back-end (administrator page) with your login username & password (of Windows setup). If you can’t login and keeps receiving an error such as Call to a member function login() on a non-object in /opt/joomla/administrator/components/com_login/admin.login.php, do the following:
- Upload the installation folder to the server.
- Drop all tables of your joomla database on the server.
- Re-run the joomla installation.
- Try to login on your joomla admin page using your newly setup login details.
- If successful, import your database again.
- Visit your Joomla front-end.
- Make sure that the property of configuration.php is 444.
How to place joomla on /opt/ folder
- Create a template
nano /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/80OptDomainJoomla
- Enter the following code:
{
my $status = $joomla{'status'} || "disabled";
return " # joomla-status is disabled.\n"
unless $status eq 'enabled';
my $domain = $joomla{'domain'} || "disabled";
return " # no hostname or domain for joomla defined\n"
if $domain eq 'disabled';
my $DocRoot = "/opt/joomla"; $OUT = ""; $OUT .= "\n"; $OUT .= "# Redirect an existing hostname or domain to $DocRoot.\n";
$OUT .= "\n";
$OUT .= " ServerName $domain\n";
$OUT .= " DocumentRoot $DocRoot\n";
$OUT .= "\n";
$OUT .= "\n";
$OUT .= " ServerName $domain\n";
$OUT .= " DocumentRoot $DocRoot\n";
$OUT .= " SSLEngine on\n";
$OUT .= "\n";
}
- Set status to enabled & the domain to www.itropics.net
config set joomla service
config setprop joomla status enabled
config setprop joomla domain www.itropics.net
expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
svc -t /service/httpd-e-smith
svc -t /service/httpd-adminNote: config set joomla service line command is important. Without this, succeeding command will not work. Without this, your httpd.conf file will only show “# joomla-status is disabled”
- Create an index.php file with the code below then upload it on /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html
<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.itropics.net" );
?>Make sure to delete the existing index.html on the Primary/html folder.