How to install Joomla in XAMPP Windows 11

Joomla is one of the oldest, most used and popular free Content Management Systems available today. It was first released by Open Source Matters, Inc. on September 22, 2005. It is mobile-ready, user-friendly and has so many modules and plugins as well as themes that you can download for free. And for this tutorial, we are gonna be making a website out if it. But before anything else, please download the two files below. I already provided the download links also.

Requirements:

• XAMPP 8.0.x, download here [via Mediafire]
• Joomla_4.2.3-Stable-Full_Package, download here [via Mediafire]

Assuming that you already download the given files above, continue doing the tutorials below.

Table of Contents

• XAMPP installation on Windows 11
• Running XAMPP Control Panel's Apache and MySQL
• Copying Joomla installer to HTDOCS folder
• Creating Joomla Database on XAMPP phpMyAdmin
• Joomla installation via Localhost or 127.0.0.1
• Accessing Joomla website home page
• Accessing Joomla website ADMIN account

Here are the steps on how to install Joomla in XAMPP using Windows 11 pc

XAMPP installation on Windows 11

1. Open the XAMPP file that you downloaded earlier. If a Question about "antivirus running" appears, click on YES to proceed.

2. If a warning also appears about User Account Control (UAC), just press OK again to proceed.

3. Under Setup - XAMPP, click on NEXT to proceed.

4. In the Select Components, click on NEXT again.

5. In the Installation folder, do not change the directory, just leave it. Press NEXT to proceed.

6. Under Language, select English or your own local language. Click NEXT to proceed.

7. Your XAMPP is now ready to be installed. Click NEXT to start.

8. Wait for the installation and unpacking to finish.

9. When done, just uncheck the "Do you want to start the Control Panel now?" and click Finish to exit.

Running XAMPP Control Panel's Apache and MySQL

1. To run XAMPP Control Panel, you can just click its shortcut located on your desktop. You can also go to Start and search for xampp and press ENTER.

2. Inside XAMPP Control Panel, click the Start buttons for both Apache and MySQL.

3. The two buttons are now running if you see that they are both labeled Stop.

4. If a Windows Security Alert appears, just click the Allow access to exit.

Copying Joomla installer to HTDOCS folder

1. Go to the Joomla zip file that you download earlier and extract it. Rename your extracted folder as "joomla". Copy your joomla folder. Now, go to Start and search for "this pc" and press ENTER.

2. Inside This PC, click on your C drive.

3. Inside, find and click on xampp folder.

4. Inside xampp, click on htdocs folder.

5. Paste your joomla folder inside htdocs.

Creating Joomla Database on XAMPP phpMyAdmin

1. Joomla installation needs database to be able to run. We are going to make one. Open your internet browser. In the address bar, enter 127.0.0.1 and press ENTER.

2. Find and click phpMyAdmin.

3. Now, click Databases.

4. In the Create database, name your database as joomla_db. Leave utf8mb4_general_ci as it is and press the Create button to proceed.

5. In the Create new table, name your table as joomla_tb or joomla_table (any name will do). Leave 4 as the default value of columns and press Create button to proceed.

6. In the Structure, name it as joomla or joomla_st. For type it is already set to INT.

7. For Collation, find and select utf8_unicode_ci and leave all the other fields blank.

8. Press Save (new Preview SQL) to save your database.

Joomla installation via Localhost or 127.0.0.1

1. We are now ready to install Joomla. Open your internet browser again and go to 127.0.0.1/joomla and press ENTER.

2. Under Joomla Installer - Select Installation Language, select English (United States) or your own local language if you want. In the Setup Site Name, just name your Joomla website. Press Setup Login Data to proceed.

3. Under Login Data, in the Super User real name, you can just enter any name you want like Administrator, etc. For username just enter admin. Enter your password (do not forget it) and your email address (a valid one). Press the Setup Database Connection to proceed.

4. In the Setup Database Connection, do the following: Database type - MySQLi, Host name: localhost, Username: root, Password: blank or none, Database name: joomla_db. Leave the other fields as default and press Install Joomla to proceed.

5. Wait for the installation to finish.

6. Done! You have successfully created a website using Joomla.

7. You need to delete now the "installation" folder located at This PC > C drive > xampp> htdocs> joomla> installation.

Accessing Joomla website home page

1. Now, to access your Joomla website homepage, just go to 127.0.0.1/joomla or localhost/joomla.

Accessing Joomla website ADMIN account

1. To access your admin login page, just go to 127.0.0.1/joomla/administrator.

2. Inside your administration page, you will see there controls on your menu, your home dashboard, links to create new contents or pages, components, manage users, and other important system settings.

Done! You have created a free website out of Joomla CMS. You can start making your website anything that it needs and consider uploading it online on a paid-web hosting service. If you do not have one, then, you can try uploading it on a free web hosting first.

If you have any question, you can leave a comment below. Thank you for reading this post guys. Cheers!