Installation Manual

Step 6 - Main Configuration
The Main Configuration screen allows the setting of three critical elements for the installation of Joomla! to
your Web server.
The Main Configuration screen of the Joomla! installation process
There are three sections to the Main Configuration screen; the first of which is the Site Name. Whilst this
may appear obvious it does bear pointing out that this is also the name that will be used when site e-mails
are issued, or when error or access warning messages are issued from the Front-end of the Web site. Unlike
in earlier releases of Joomla!, and its predecessor, the Site Name will not appear in the User's browser title
bar. This entry can be edited at a later time in the Global Configuration->Site page of the Control Panel.
The second section relates to key information concerning the primary Super Administrator, you!
Enter your e-mail address, or the one that you want all site warnings, messages, and e-mails to be sent from
and that incoming contact methods will be directed to. It will appear as the From address on all Site outgoing
e-mail messages. There are also two text fields into which you should enter and confirm the password that
you will (as the primary Super Administrator) use to login to the Web site, in combination with the default
username, for the primary Super Administrator, of admin.
Caution: It is worth pointing out that at least for public sites the MySQL,FTP, and Login usernames and
passwords should not be the same. To do so would add unnecessary security risks.
Note: If you are migrating data from an existing Joomla! 1.0 installation, or uploading a full SQL back-up
from an existing Joomla! 1.5 installation, you do not need to complete these first two sections as the
information will be automatically transferred within the migration script or back-up file.
Caution: An additional security suggestion that you might consider is to change the User admin to
something less obvious once the installation is completed. This can be done (along with any subsequent
changes you wish to make to the password) in the Control Panel->Site menu->User Manager screen of
the Administrator Back-end.
The third and final section relates to the data that you may, or indeed may not, want to include in the
installation process. Essentially you have three choices:
1) enter the default sample data that Joomla! provides within the core distribution,
2) Migrate the data from an earlier version of Joomla! using the migration tools available, or
3) do neither of these and start a completely fresh and empty installation of Joomla!. In addition it is
also possible to upload existing data from perhaps a back-up that has been created from another
Web site although there is no specific procedure in this section to undertake this.
Looking at these options one at a time:
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