Quick Start Guide

XAMPP Setup

In order to set up Joomla! for this website, you first need to have a server installed on

which Joomla! can run. The easiest way to set up a server on your own computer is to use

XAMPP. If you are installing Joomla! on a web host, please check out the “Official Joomla

1.5 Installation Guide” at http://help.joomla.org. Do not install the sample content and skip

ahead to the “Sections, Categories, and Articles” chapter after your installation is complete.

Note: The following instructions are based on a Windows install. Other operating

systems will be similar but slightly different. Please refer to the XAMPP installation

manual for your operating system.

1. Download the XAMPP installer for your version of Windows from the XAMPP

website: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html.

2. After downloading XAMPP, run the setup and follow the given instructions. Installing

Apache and MySQL as services is recommended:

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