Start to establish your interactive website by using Joomla! CMS on QNAP NAS
COMPLETE GUIDE OF JOOMLA! INSTALLATION ON QNAP NAS
Preface
 The success of online business in recent years has aroused the interest of more and more personal and small business users to build their web sites or interactive applications like online shops, forums, or online marketing platform. However, it is often a challenge for the initial web server setup due to the lack of money to purchase or rent a web server, hire an IT professional for maintenance, and inadequate knowledge of web programming. To realize truly simple and easy web server setup, QNAP has introduced Joomla! pre-installed NAS series. With this powerful and absolutely free application, every user can build their own web sites or online applications on their own easily.
QNAP TS-109/209/409 series are the NAS models which adopt Linux-embedded design and are built-in with incredible number of installation-free and powerful functions including Apache server, PHP and MySQL. Users can simply enable the functions on the web management interface to enjoy these features without any hassles to set up a PC server, configure the Linux web server, or compile any program. The power-saving design of QNAP NAS also allows long-term running of the server to provide 24x7 services.
* The power consumption of TS-109 in operation is 14.4W, which is less than an energy-saving light bulb.
QNAP NAS integrates phpMyAdmin and Joomla! CMS to simplify the installation procedure of a web server. The built-in phpMyAdmin feature enables users to manage the MySQL database via the web interface. No complicated HTML programming or web design knowledge is required. Even non-programmers can build their web sites with Joomla!.
About Joomla
Joomla! is an award-winning yet one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable and it will help you build websites and other powerful online applications with minimum efforts and skills are required.
To find out what Joomla! can do for you, check out the following video made by the Joomla! community:
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4186222118757927821&hl=en
Installation Instructions
If you have never installed Joomla! before, you can let QNAP NAS install the Joomla! package automatically by upgrading the NAS firmware. The installation procedure is absolutely simple and easy.
Please refer to the steps below for the first time Joomla! installation:
- Prerequisites: Firmware v1.1.5 or above (You can check the firmware version from the QNAP Finder)
- Demo target: QNAP TS-109 Pro
Step 1
Start QNAP Finder. Locate your NAS and double-click on it to bring up the administration web page. You can check the firmware version down at the bottom of the page too.
Step 2
Login the administration page and then go to 'Network Settings' > 'Web Server'. Check the box 'php.ini Maintenance' and select 'Restore' from the dropdown menu. Then click the 'Restore' button on the right. Restart the server for the changes to take effect. You can achieve this simply by disabling the option 'Enable Web server' and enable it again.
Step 3
Go to 'Network Settings' > 'MySQL Server'. Check the options 'Enable MySQL Server' and 'Enable TCP/IP Networking', and click 'Apply'.
Ok, we have now enabled the web server and MySQL database server. Let's begin the Installation of Joomla! by clicking on the link http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/Joomla/ on 'Network Settings' > 'Web Server' page (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx denotes the IP address of your NAS).
Step 4
First choose the language to use during the installation of Joomla! and click 'Next'.
Step 5
The pre-installation check should return Yes on all the settings required so simply click 'Next' to continue.
Step 6
On the Database Configuration page under Basic Settings configure as below:
*Please note that the default user name and password is root / admin.
Step 7
The FTP Configuration is optional so you can choose to either configure the settings as below or simply click Next to continue.
*Please note that the default FTP user name and password is admin / admin.
Step 8
Enter the Site Name you'd like along with your contact E-mail and Admin Password as below. First time users or beginners are recommended to install the Sample Data in order to get some ideas. Once done simply click Next to continue to the last step.
Step 9
If you can see the screen as below we're almost there! One more thing before it's done we have to remove the installation folder on the Joomla! root directory.
If you have previously mounted the Qweb share directory in the Windows please go to the directory where you just installed your Joomla!. In my case it will be under Qweb > Joomla. Please delete or remove the installation directory before you can start using Joomla!.
Step 10
Now point your web browser to the address below and you should see the following page. http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/Joomla/ (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. denotes your NAS IP address).
For Joomla! Administration just go to: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/Joomla/administrator/ (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. denotes your NAS IP address) and enter your admin user name and password. (default: admin / admin)
This is it, have fun!
Tips
- Links to access Joomla! after installation on QNAP NAS:
Joomla! home page: http://NAS IP/Joomla/
Joomla! administration page: http://NAS IP/Joomla/administrator/
All the Joomla! installation and configuration files are saved in the directory Qweb/Joomla.
- Links to access MySQL database:
To manage MySQL database by phpMyAdmin: http://NAS IP/phpMyAdmin/
To use other tools to manage MySQL database, please refer to:
http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/administrator/
Download the tools:
http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQLGUITools/mysql-gui-tools-5.0-r12-win32.msi/from/http://mysql.ntu.edu.tw/
- How to go:
*You can refer to the sample data installed in the previous steps for web design and using the Joomla! extensions.
*To find out more Joomla! tutorials and the sources, check out the Joomla! official site: http://www.joomla.org.
About Reinstallation
If you happen to need to reinstall either Joomla (1.5.1 stable) or phpMyAdmin (v 2.10.3), just download the pre-configured, multilingual interface
installation package from the links below and simply decompress into your /share/Qweb directory:
Joomla v1.5.1 (stable release, multilingual) zip | tar.gz
phpMyAdmin v2.10.3 (stable) zip | tar.gz
Now you can access your Joomla again with this address:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/Joomla/
or phpMyAdmin with this:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/phpMyAdmin/ |
