Fastest Way to Install Joomla on a Remote Server

The Joomla archive is a relatively large file base. The Joomla stable version 1.5.15 has: 
4,179 Files, 786 Folders
Uploading all these files via FTP to your remote web host can be slow and painful.

Our proposed faster solution is to install Joomla is via SSH. Here are the exact steps below:
  1. Login to your server via SSH and cd to your web folder
  2. Grab the latest Joomla stable code base. For example: 
    wget -c http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/11396/45610/Joomla_1.5.15-Stable-Full_Package.zip
  3. Unzip the archive: 
    unzip Joomla_1.5.15-Stable-Full_Package.zip
  4. Create a MySQL database and a user via PHPMyAdmin. Assign the user permission to the created database only. Note the database name, username and password.
  5. Run the Joomla installer by visiting the folder where you unzipped the archive via browser. For example: http://www.example.com/joomla/. Follow the on-screen Joomla installation steps. Use the database login information from the step above.
  6. Once the installation is complete, remove the following: 
    rm -rf installation
rm Joomla_1.5.15-Stable-Full_Package.zip
  7. That's it. You should now have a live Joomla site ready for publishing.



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