Beginner's Guide

Figure 4: Installer – database configuration
Enter the following values into your local installation:
computer name: localhost
user name: root
password: [only you know that]
Now select the database name. In a productive environment on a database server with a provider,
you probably have a fixed quota of databases and the database credentials are predefined. If you have
root permission on your MySQL server, you can enter a name of a new database. Joomla will then
create that database.
You can select whether the tables of any existing Joomla installation in this database should be
cleared or saved and marked with the prefix bak_.
The MySQL table prefix is really practical. In front of each table name generated by the web installer, it
writes the text that you typed in the appropriate field. As7a default,7the web installer suggests a randomly
created one, like w02rh_. This has a simple reason. Sometimes you7may only7be able to7get one MySQL
database from your provider. If you want to run two or more Joomla sites, you have a problem, as the
tables do not differ from each other. With the table prefix it is7 possible to distinguish several tables
(w01client_ or w02client_).7Here, you should use the default w02rh_ . The prefix is also used to indicate
saved data (bak_); see above.
Step 5 - FTP-configuration
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide
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