1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Finally, after working on this site for all of these videos, we are finally ready 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:11,000 to launch it, and it's always a very exciting time at launch. There's a lot of 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,000 steps to launching your Joomla Web site. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Basically, we now have to move our files and database out of WAMP, or MAMP, and we 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,000 have to move them up through our Web server. 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 So in this first video, what we're going to do is get ahold of our Joomla 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,000 files, and we're going to get ahold of a copy of the database. 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Then we're going to prep those, prep everything, and get it ready to move to our 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Web hosting environment. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Then in the next video, I'll show you how to import all of that to your Web 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,000 hosting environment, and get that all set up, and ready for launch. 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 So the first thing that we need to do before we do anything at all is we need to 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,000 deal with a little issue of security. 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Right now, the username and password for this Web site are admin and admin. 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Let's change that before we move this site to our Web server. 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,000 So I'm going to go to Users > User Manager, and I'm going to go to my Super User 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,000 account here, and I'm going to change my Login Name, and I'm going to change my 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Password, and I'm going to go ahead and say Save & Close. 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Now my old login of admin, admin will not work on this Web site. 20 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 I'll have to type in my new login to get into this Web site. 21 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:24,000 The next thing I need to zip up all of my files here, and get that ready to go to 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,000 move to my Web server. 23 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:31,000 So to do that, I'm going to need to go to my files here inside of my PC. 24 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:40,000 I'm going to go to my Computer here, and I'm going to go into C, into wamp, into 25 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000 www, and find my Joomla files. 26 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Mac people, you're going to go into your Mac Finder, go to Applications, go to 27 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,000 mamp, and inside of mamp, look for HT docs. 28 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Inside of the HT docs folder, you'll find all of these files. 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 What I'm going to do now is highlight everything, holding down the Shift key, 30 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 highlight everything, and I'm going to zip this together. 31 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,000 I'm going to right-click on this, and say Send to > Compressed folder. 32 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Mac people, go ahead and highlight all of your files, and right-click, and you're 33 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,000 going to pick Compress. 34 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Your Windows machine, or your Macintosh are going to pick names for that zipped file. 35 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Mine happens to be called templates. 36 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Depending on where you right-clicked it might be called something else. 37 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 I'm going to change that to a name of joomla. 38 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Also, Windows -- at least on my Windows here -- somewhat misleadingly indicates that 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 that is a locked zip file. 40 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 That's actually not the case. 41 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 I'm going to drag this to the Desktop, so I can find it later. 42 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Now I've got my files set and ready to go. 43 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 The next thing I need to do is export a copy of my database. 44 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,000 To do that, I'm going to go back to the browser, open up a new tab, and I'm going 45 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 to go to localhost/PHPMyAdmin. 46 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Mac people, you're going to go to localhost:8888/PHPMyAdminn. 47 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 I'm going to find my Joomla 48 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,000 database over here on the right side, and click on it, and here is my Joomla database. 49 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 What I want to do is export this database to a file. 50 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 To do that, I'm going to click on my Export tab here, and just use the 51 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,000 quick method of export; 52 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000 you don't need to switch over to the custom method, and just say go. 53 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:18,000 This will download a Joomla.sql file, and that's going to save that right here to 54 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 my Downloads directory. 55 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,000 I'm going to open that containing folder by right-clicking on that, and I'm going 56 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,000 to drag that database out here to my Desktop, just so I can find it later. 57 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Then I'm going to close my Downloads. 58 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,000 I now have changed my username and password for this Web site. 59 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 I've zipped together all of the files that are required to make the Web site ru,n 60 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 and I have a copy of the database, and it's all sitting here on my Desktop. 61 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 So I'm ready to go, now, to the next video, where I'll create a database, 62 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 import the database information I have here, and upload my files, and finally 63 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 get my site launched.