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• Installing joomla on Debian 12 VPS

In this guide, we will install the joomla application on a virtual server so as not to do the same work every time, as a vps server we will take the assembly Web stack on Debian 12. This assembly is specially designed to quickly deploy web applications requiring php and mariadb. Download the latest version from the official site, install through the browser. All necessary services are already installed and configured. You can also order a vps server with a pre-installed joomla application, you will only need to specify a login and password for administration.

Version 4.3.4

apt update && sudo apt upgrade
wget https://fossies.org/linux/www/Joomla_4.3.4-Stable-Full_Package.tar.bz2
mkdir -p /var/www/joomla
tar -xf Joomla_4.3.4-Stable-Full_Package.tar.bz2 -C /var/www/joomla
mv /var/www/joomla /var/www/domain.tld

2. Create a database and write in the settings

mariadb -u root
	
create database joomla;
grant all privileges on joomla.* to user@localhost identified by 'your-password';
flush privileges;
exit;

3. Web service setup

Assign rights and create a configuration file for our domain:

chown www-data:www-data /var/www/domain.tld/ -R
mv /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/domain.tld.conf

Configuration file:

/etc/nginx/conf.d/domain.tld.conf

server {
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;
  server_name _;
  root /var/www/domain.tld;
  index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
  }

location /phpmyadmin {
        auth_basic "Admin Login";
        auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/pma_access;
    }

 # A long browser cache lifetime can speed up repeat visits to your page
  location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|webp|svg|woff|woff2|ttf|css|js|ico|xml)$ {
       access_log        off;
       log_not_found     off;
       expires           360d;
  }

  # disable access to hidden files
  location ~ /\.ht {
      access_log off;
      log_not_found off;
      deny all;
  }
}

Let's restart the services:

service nginx restart
/etc/init.d/php8.2-fpm restart

Change the ftp user's home directory to ours:

/etc/passwd

ftpuser:x:1000:1000:,,,:/var/www/domain.tld:/bin/bash

Let's change the path to phpMyAdmin for our configuration:

ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/domain.tld/

Go to the browser using the configured http://domain.tld/ domain and complete the installation in the browser. You will be prompted to select a language, specify an administrator login and password, and specify the parameters created for the database, in our case these are: 

• Database username: user 
• Database name: joomla 
• Password: your-password

Change domain.tld to your already configured in the DNS editor to the ip address of the VPS server. Thus, you can add several sites by analogy. In case of site transfer, you can place existing files and import the database.

Now you can open a link like http://server_ip/ in a browser and check the application.

In order to enter the administration menu, follow the link of the form http://server_ip/administrator

Joomla installation is complete.