Problem: If you develop components for Joomla (e.g. a template) you require a local test installation.
Solution:
The easiest way to setup a Joomla testsystem is to download the Bitnami Joomla stack from here. Extract that and add it to your VMWare installation.After that some steps are required which are outlined here.
This setup is only for a development environment and not for productive use as most secure stuff is removed.
1.) Login as Bitnami (default password is Bitnami)
2.) run the following command:
sudo apt-get update
normally vsFTPd should be already installed. If you run the following command it would be installed, if it is already installed you will get a message about that:
sudo apt-get install vsftpd
3.) Now you need to open the port 21 in the local bitnami firewall via:
sudo ufw allow 21
4.) After that we need to change the config from vsFTPd via:
sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf
in the config file search for “listen_address=127.0.0.1” and change that to “#listen_address=127.0.0.1”. Then search for “#write_enable=YES” and change that to “write_enable=YES”. Now save the config file (via ctrl + o) and close the editor (via ctrl + x).
5.) Now we will enable the bitnami user for the login. To do that enter the following comand
sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.allowed_users
and put in the 2nd line the name “bitnami”. Now save the config file (via ctrl + o) and close the editor (via ctrl + x).
6.) Now restart vsFTPd via
sudo service vsftpd restart
You can login now via an FTP client like filezilla. Use the username bitnami (and if not changed the password bitnami). As IP use the one you saw when the bitnami joomla stack finished the boot sequence. The port will be 21.
Once logged in, you will find the joomla files in “/opt/bitnami/apps/joomla/htdocs”. You can login into Joomla via “User: User, Password: bitnami”.
7.) To allow access to PHPMyadmin the following change is now required:
sudo nano /opt/bitnami/apps/phpmyadmin/conf/httpd-app.conf
and change
Allow from 127.0.0.1
to
Allow from all
and
Require local
to
Require all granted
Otherwise the following error “For security reasons, this URL is only accessible using localhost (127.0.0.1) as the hostname.” will come up.
The default user is ‘root’ and the default password ‘bitnami’.
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