How to install Joomla 2.5 in CentOS 6

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This article, “How to install Joomla 2.5 in CentOS 6,” covers a version of CentOS 6 that reached end of life (EOL) on November 30th, 2020, and is no longer supported. As such, this guide is no longer maintained. Therefore, if you are currently running CentOS 6, we recommend contacting RoseHosting’s fully managed support. Our team will upgrade or migrate you to a supported version of CentOS.

As this guide may be helpful as a reference, it may not be compatible with other CentOS releases. Conversely, the following RoseHosting tutorial on how to install Joomla 3 on CentOS 7 may be more helpful.

What is Joomla?

It is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications.

What’s a content management system?

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your website, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage.

To install and run Joomla 2.5 in your CentOS 6 Linux VPS, follow these steps. We assume you have installed and configured LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) or LNMP (Linux Nginx MySQL and PHP) on your system.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Make sure your system’s always up-to-date by executing:

# yum update -y

2. Download the Joomla 2.5 package  to the newly created ‘/var/www/html/joomla2.5’ directory and change to this directory:

# mkdir -p /var/www/html/joomla2.5 && \
wget -P /var/www/html/joomla2.5 \
http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/17410/76012/Joomla_2.5.7-Stable-Full_Package.zip && \
cd /var/www/html/joomla2.5/

3. Extract the zipped archive to the ‘/var/www/html/joomla2.5’ directory.

# [[ ! $(which unzip 2>/dev/null) ]] && yum install unzip && \
unzip Joomla*.zip && rm -f Joomla_*.zip && \
chown apache: -R /var/www/html/joomla2.5

4. Navigate to http://your-ip/joomla2.5 and complete your Joomla installation.

You may want to create a virtual host directive for your http://your-domain to serve the Joomla you just installed in ‘/var/www/html/joomla2.5’.

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