About Joomla Joomla is a free and open source content management that uses a PHP and a backend database, such as MySQL. It offers a wide variety of features that make it an incredibly flexible content management system right out of the box. It was created in 2005 and is currently the 2nd most popular content management site online. It now has over 10,000 addons to customize its functionality. Setup The steps in this tutorial require the user to have root privileges on their linux server. You can see how to set that up in steps 3 and 4 of the Initial Server Setup Before working with Joomla, you need to have LAMP installed on your linux server. If you don't have the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP stack on your linux server, you can find the tutorial for setting it up here: How to Install LAMP on Ubuntu . Once you have the user and required software, you can start installing Joomla! Step One—Download Joomla To start, create a directo...