Introduction

So, you want to get started with Joomla and learn a little more in the process about Linux as well? You‘ve got an old computer lying around just taking up space? Read on then, this tutorial will cover everything needed to get you started.

This is the scenario: You want to have a development server locally, the right way, using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) environment and you are using Windows as you main OS which you’d prefer not messing around with. Certainly, you’ll need a spare old computer to experiment with and about 30 minutes to read this tutorial and watch the two videos provided.