The next Melbourne Joomla User Group meeting will be on Wed, 23 July, preparing for the Abite Expo 2008, 16-18 Aug at the exhibition centre. This is a great opportunity for the group and also for every small business owner in our group to get in touch with potential clients. We will be discussing details during the meeting.

Venue:
Australian Mathematical Science Institute
ICT Building
c/- The University of Melbourne
111 Barry Street, Carlton

The meeting room is on the ground floor, right (northern) wing.

Time:
6:30 - 8:30 pm

Agenda:
6:30-6:45 Networking and chat
6:45-7:15 Abite Expo
7:15-8:15 Helpful tools and Joomla project showcases
8:15-8:30 Q&A

A way to go still, but I'm confident that Gwyn and I will be there again.

A nice excuse to partake in the gourmet delights of the big smoke

Rgds

Martin

I would like to RSVP please.

yup - I'd like to go. Do I need to do anything else, other than post here?

Hi. Yes, I'll be there.

I hope this is the appropriate place to post a plethora of newbie questions that might be able to be answered here, email (PN@*.com.au - replace the * with "sunspotcomp" ) or put on notice for the meeting.

My main observation as a newcomer with some computing nouse is that while Joomla is pretty well documented I could not say that for other apps particularly CPanel.

I think it may be part of the initiation rite that I have to waste a lot of time and pull a lot of hair out! In the end though, I got the demo Joomla site up on the Web Server, so that's something.

Joomla
Can you run the Joomla Web Installer after it has already been run once?

Website (I'm using JiffyNet) & CPanel
Cpanel's File Manager seems to be only able to upload one file at a time. Is this correct.

Is there anything similar to MySQL Browser you can use under CPanel?

Can you completely reset the website ie clear all user data reinstate default data and start again?

In MySQL Account Maintenance, when I try to create a database named "ssc", it creates a database called "sunspot_ssc" ("sunspot" being my user name). Why does it do that? Are different users' databases loaded into the one file.

There are heaps of components in CPanel. I guess Backup will prove useful - anything else I should know about early on?

FireFTP
Is Firefox/FireFTP the best way to upload files?

Is Cpanel's FTP Manager (which couldn't tame) totally redundant if I'm using FireFTP?

FireFTP uploads at a rate of about 5MB/hr (ie very slow). JiffyNet's not a premium website, but this is way below what I'd expected. Is this normal?

Does FireFTP only update files that have been changed or overwrite everything? I'm expecting (hoping for?) behaviour like robycopy.

phpMyAdmin
Is this the way to upload MySQL schema & data to MySQL on the server?

On my local PC, I entered a root password (from phpMyAdmin!) and then couldn't get back into phpMyAdmin - in the end I had to make a change to config.inc.php. If phpMyAdmin behaves like that on the server, I'd be stuffed 'coz I don’t (think I have) access to another way to change the password. How do I enter a password on the server through Cpanel?

Joomla on the Web Server
Do you normally build your Joomla site on the web server or build it on your PC and upload the whole lot?

How do you keep the development (whether on my PC or one the web server) & on-line versions in synch?

First time, I uploaded Joomla to the web server, I uploaded the post installation version. Was that the wrong way to do it?

I've just uploaded the pre-installation version of Joomla - is that the right way to do it?

I managed to get through the Database Configuration stage by creating the database in MySQL Account Maintenance and then creating the user "sunspot_sunspot" (everything prefixed with "sunspot_" it seems) and then enabling all privileges for that user. Was it necessary to do that or should the Joomla Web Installer have been able to do it itself?

RSForms
Using the supplied example and filling the form with E-mail and Newsletter clicked, E-mail and Newsletter are concatenated as "E-mailnNewsletter". Is that a bug?

Again using the supplied example, the calendar selection does fill in the text box (on the webserver - it worked on my PC). Do I need to add another component?

Joomla vs Mambo
It's probably unfair to expect you to answer this one impartially - who's the good guy? PS I was amazed to read that Mambo was developed in Melbourne!

Ill be there. Ill try to drag along some others from our company too.

See you all there

I'm in. See you all soon!

I will be there, I missed the last one unfortunately, but not this one!

edit: missed it again work drama...

I will be there, see you all Wednesday night!

Has anyone installed and tried the latest Joomla! 1.5.4 version?

wow, that's a lot of Qs
can i cherry pick some?

yes, you can run the installer more than once. normally you run it once, then delete the installation directory (so that Joomla runs, instead of the installer from your URL) and if you want to tweak things later, you use Global Configuration or configuration.php

Depends which version of cpanel you are running, but yes, it kinda does upload one at a time. It will upload and extract from a zip or tar.gz though.

Not familiar with MySQL browser, but Cpanel's PHPMyAdmin allows you direct access to modify your database. This is a way to upload MySQL schema and data, yes.

Creates a database by prepending your username to avoid db name duplication between accounts.

You can upload Joomla as a post-installation version. You can load it from (a) Fantastico or (b) using the Joomla installer or (c) file by file from FTP. It should all work.



That is the correct way. Joomla cant create a db on your hosting account.

hope some of that is useful.
i will leave others to chip in on the other Qs
good luck with your site.

Hi Folks,
I am buried under deadlines here and won't be able to make it tonight, grrhhh. Please keep me in the loop regarding the tradeshow and everything else..
Cheers,
Andre