Running Joomla on CentOS

You will need CentOS 5.2 or later, PHP 5.2 or later and MySQL 5.1 or later
1. In your Centos command line type in this line "yum -y install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel httpd php php-mysql." to install the required packages
2.Create MySQL database for a new Joomla install. To do this type the code: "mysql -u root -p." and press "Enter" and then type in "create database joomla."
3.Set up your database password and the database permissions using this code "GRANT ALL ON joomla_db.* TO admin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword' \g."
4.put the Joomla install zip file in the directory /var/www/html/ and then enter the this code "unzip filename.zip."
5.Restart your Web server by typing this code"service httpd restart."
6.Now, you can complete the normal Joomla installation steps pointing the browser to "http://localhost" and following the normal instructions.