Quick Start Guide

Download & Unzip Joomla!

Now that you are done setting up the server, it is time to download and unzip Joomla!.

1. First, we need to make a folder for Joomla!. Open the folder that you installed

XAMPP into – usually C:\XAMPP or C:\Program Files\XAMPP on Windows.

2. Open up the folder “htdocs:”

3. Create a new folder in “htdocs” titled “joomla15.”

4. Now we need to download the latest copy of Joomla! 1.5 from the net. Go to http://

www.joomla.org and scroll down the left hand side to find “Download Latest” and

click on “1.5” to open the download page:

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