Thats true Mike you said you had a LAMP environment installed, but it sounds like you have a LAP environment. While you at it, look into how to create a user, you will need to do that in order for the Joomla installed to attach onto the database and create it's initial database. Brian Cluff On 02/01/2013 01:35 PM, John J. Macey wrote: > > Mike, > > Sitting here in my JAVA class @ ASU... Have you made this more difficult > than necessary? Go here > , and give it a try. > > John > > > On 02/01/2013 01:28 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> it is asking me for a database so I figure mysql but it isn't >> installed. No problem.... I'll apt-get it. Apt-get install mysql> tab> gives a lot of download candidates though. Which should I >> install? I'm thinking mysql-server but there is also ...server-5.5 >> and ...server-core-5.5. Here are the candidates: >> $ sudo apt-get install mysql >> mysql-client mysql-mmm-tools mysql-testsuite >> mysql-client-5.5 mysql-proxy mysql-testsuite-5.5 >> mysql-client-core-5.5 mysql-server mysqltuner >> mysql-common mysql-server-5.5 mysql-utilities >> mysql-mmm-agent mysql-server-core-5.5 mysql-workbench >> mysql-mmm-common mysql-source-5.5 mysql-workbench-data >> mysql-mmm-monitor mysqltcl >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Michael Havens > > wrote: >> >> thanks, Brian:) >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Brian Cluff > > wrote: >> >> On 02/01/2013 12:48 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> I'm at pre instalation checklist now. One of the issues I >> have with this >> section is that my outpu buffering is set to on and they >> recommend off. >> I think I am going to leave it as it stands now but wanted >> to get advise. >> >> >> I believe that setting is optional, so you should be safe >> leaving it along as it won't really matter for a personal site. >> >> >> The other issue is configuration.php Writeable. After >> googling a little >> I figured I bette make it writable and so did. >> >> >> Yup, you have to make it writable so that it can create and >> modify the config. Later once you have everything set like >> you like it, you can safely set it to read only and that can >> help with security. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss