Friends,

I am trying to install Joomla on an opensuse 10.3 box, but I am missing something very basic.

I am trying to build my website and after many weeks of search I have chosen joomla. I have downloaded it, extracted to

/home/chief/public_html

and then opened Firefox and tried to open install.php.

The message I received was "open the file or save".

Before the installation I have checked my Apache, MySQL and PHP installations, which were all in place.

In Joomla's installation documents, it was advised to extract Joomla to /var/www but opensuse does not have this directory.

Now, being a newbie on this issue, I have narrowed down my problem to two issues:

1. Something in AMP is not running therefore suse cannot run install.php
2. I have to copy the contents to some www directory [as advised as /var/www]. It may be /srv/www but I am not sure since this directory has cgi-bin, htdocs and icons subdirectories. Shall I create one folder in this directory and copy the contents? I mean, am I doing it wrong trying to install joomla to /home/chief/public_html?

Thank you for every help in advance.

Chief

If I were in your place, I'd ignore the fact that Opensuse doesn't have /var/www, and just create the folder, then procede with installation to see if it works.

If not, you can always delete /var/www, and try something else.

I wouldn't install to public_html. If I remember correctly, that folder is open to others logging in to your machine. Unless you want to give them access to joomla, that is.

Thank you very much for your kind assistance. I will try it out and post the outcome here.

regarding public_html folder, I am the only one that uses the system, so there is no problem here. If I create /var/www as you advised, then I have to play with the permissions, which I believe, will in turn lead to even more problems when I will upload my website to a remote host.

The solution is, in openSuSE 10.3, you have to create a folder in /srv/www/htdocs.

I have created /srv/www/htdocs/joomla and copied all the files in this folder.

Then typing http://localhost/joomla/installation/index.php in Firefox brought me the installation page.

Regards,
chief