Install Joomla on Windows Using XAMPP

Step 1: Download & Install XAMPP

Navigate to apachefriends website and download the latest version for windows.

Once downloaded run the installer. For this we only need to install Apache and MySQL.

Once installed, open it and proceed to start Apache and MySQL by clicking at the start button. When started you should see something like this:

Step 2: Download and Extract Joomla

Navigate to downloads.joomla.org and select the download Joomla button.

Once downloaded open the Zip file with WinRAR and extract it to your htdocs directory. Your htdocs directory is located in C:\xampp\htdocs.

Click Extract To

Enter C:\xampp\htdocs like I have done below:

Then press ENTER or click the OK button.

Step 3: Install Joomla

Open up your webbrowser and navigate to http://localhost/. Once here you should see something like this:

Configure your installation and click next.

Step 4: Setup Database

Here you got two options. Method 1 is to setup the database with XAMPP, or you can setup your database at a linux server. In this tutorial we are going to cover the easiest, and that is to have everything in one place.

To setup your database navigate to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/server_databases.php

Type the name of your database in the first red marked box as seen below and click create. In this tutorial I am going to call this database Joomla.

Go back to your installation page and fill out the forms:

• Host Name: localhost
• Username: root
• Password: leave empty
• Database Name: Joomla

Click Next and continue to the next step.

You are almost done! All you have to do now is to click install and wait for it to install.

Congratulations. You have now installed Joomla!