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In this movie let's talk about taking a local install of Joomla! and putting it on your Remote Host. Right here is our Local install of this Joomla!. We called it Joomla! 1.5 on our local PC. The first thing you need to do is find all these files and upload them to your Remote Host. Remember if you installed xampp, that's just on your hard drive in that xampp folder. Go to htdocs and then find the specific folder for your Joomla! install. You can upload that entire folder, if it's going to be a subdirectory of your site, so maybe it's mytechrelief.com/Joomla! 1.5 to get to the Joomla! part of your web site. If this Joomla! is your entire web site, means when somebody comes to the main page, your Index Page, they want to go immediately into the Joomla! elements, then you want to take all these files and just put them on your Home Directory right there, so that's your Main Element of your site is Joomla!. So, first thing FTP all those up to your Remote Host. Your next element is to go to your local PC and utilize xampp. You want to go into PHP MyAdmin. What we're going to do is first of all make sure you're seeing your database, your MySQL Database that goes with your Joomla! install, and you want to Export. I'm going to export this Joomla! 1.5 Database. Everything else you can leave as the Defaults. You can call it anything that you want and make sure you hit this Save As File, and then you just hit Go. And I can save the file. And there you've got it. You have this saved. It looks like a bunch of gobbledygook but it will do what you need. Then what you need to do is create a MySQL Database on your Remote Host because it's not created yet. You create that database, give it the same name as your database here and then upload this Export file into your MySQL Database. That's basically it. But the trick is you've got to go to your Remote Host, find where you can make a MySQL Database, then you've got the database made. You've already got it named and your Password and all that, then you just simply instead of going to Export like we did here, when you run into PHP MyAdmin on your Remote Host you're going to go to Import instead and choose that file. On your Remote Site you are going to have to edit that Configuration file when you created Joomla!. So, let me go into my hard drive here, go into xampp, into those htdocs and Joomla!, and right here, here is my configuration.php file. OK, we've got our PHP file opened. What you want to look at is things like this Log Path. You need to have that say not C colon xampp ht docs yadda yadda yadda. You need to show that your Remote Host, so it'll say something like this, so basically you will type in this to show it the path that it needs to go to. And right here is where you type your Domain Name, and then your Folder, say I put it in a Joomla! 1.5 Folder on my website. That's the path that you need, because this path that's on there is to your hard drive. And then we need to change this one also. Again your Domain Name goes right here. Here goes your Directory that it is in and there you go. Now the other thing you need to look at is your Host, your User, your Database, and your Password. Right here, right Ð we were on localhost, our own computer Ð so you need to change that, the name of your Remote Host. You need to know the name of the User. You need to have the Password in there. You need to make sure you have all that in there and the name of the Database. If you named the MySQL Database differently than your Local one, you need to make sure you change that. The Remote Host Name is going to be on your Remote Web Server. It's going to be pretty long because most of the time you're sharing your Host with other people. So, those you'll have to look up on your Remote Server. If you need any help with any of this feel free to E-mail me. It's a little bit different depending upon who your Remote Host is, but the basic generic concept is the same. So give it a try. See what you can do, and again, E-mail me if you need some assistance.