Finally, after working on this site for all of these videos, we are finally ready
to launch it, and it's always a very exciting time at launch. There's a lot of
steps to launching your Joomla Web site.
Basically, we now have to move our files and database out of WAMP, or MAMP, and we
have to move them up through our Web server.
So in this first video, what we're going to do is get ahold of our Joomla
files, and we're going to get ahold of a copy of the database.
Then we're going to prep those, prep everything, and get it ready to move to our
Web hosting environment.
Then in the next video, I'll show you how to import all of that to your Web
hosting environment, and get that all set up, and ready for launch.
So the first thing that we need to do before we do anything at all is we need to
deal with a little issue of security.
Right now, the username and password for this Web site are admin and admin.
Let's change that before we move this site to our Web server.
So I'm going to go to Users > User Manager, and I'm going to go to my Super User
account here, and I'm going to change my Login Name, and I'm going to change my
Password, and I'm going to go ahead and say Save & Close.
Now my old login of admin, admin will not work on this Web site.
I'll have to type in my new login to get into this Web site.
The next thing I need to zip up all of my files here, and get that ready to go to
move to my Web server.
So to do that, I'm going to need to go to my files here inside of my PC.
I'm going to go to my Computer here, and I'm going to go into C, into wamp, into
www, and find my Joomla files.
Mac people, you're going to go into your Mac Finder, go to Applications, go to
mamp, and inside of mamp, look for HT docs.
Inside of the HT docs folder, you'll find all of these files.
What I'm going to do now is highlight everything, holding down the Shift key,
highlight everything, and I'm going to zip this together.
I'm going to right-click on this, and say Send to > Compressed folder.
Mac people, go ahead and highlight all of your files, and right-click, and you're
going to pick Compress.
Your Windows machine, or your Macintosh are going to pick names for that zipped file.
Mine happens to be called templates.
Depending on where you right-clicked it might be called something else.
I'm going to change that to a name of joomla.
Also, Windows -- at least on my Windows here -- somewhat misleadingly indicates that
that is a locked zip file.
That's actually not the case.
I'm going to drag this to the Desktop, so I can find it later.
Now I've got my files set and ready to go.
The next thing I need to do is export a copy of my database.
To do that, I'm going to go back to the browser, open up a new tab, and I'm going
to go to localhost/PHPMyAdmin.
Mac people, you're going to go to localhost:8888/PHPMyAdminn.
I'm going to find my Joomla
database over here on the right side, and click on it, and here is my Joomla database.
What I want to do is export this database to a file.
To do that, I'm going to click on my Export tab here, and just use the
quick method of export;
you don't need to switch over to the custom method, and just say go.
This will download a Joomla.sql file, and that's going to save that right here to
my Downloads directory.
I'm going to open that containing folder by right-clicking on that, and I'm going
to drag that database out here to my Desktop, just so I can find it later.
Then I'm going to close my Downloads.
I now have changed my username and password for this Web site.
I've zipped together all of the files that are required to make the Web site ru,n
and I have a copy of the database, and it's all sitting here on my Desktop.
So I'm ready to go, now, to the next video, where I'll create a database,
import the database information I have here, and upload my files, and finally
get my site launched.