Topic: Joomla installation question about my working install

[Agent86]

Hi all

I've Installed Joomla from Contribs using the method shown in the contribs.as follows:
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dberteld/joomla/smeserver-joomla-1.0.12-1.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall smeserver-joomla-1.0.12-1.noarch.rpm

It appears to install fine but at first I could not change the language.

I then did this as suggested in another post.
touch /opt/joomla/configuration.php ;\
chmod 660 /opt/joomla/configuration.php ;\
chown www.www /opt/joomla/configuration.php

It all works fine now.

So my question is that in the other post there were several other commands that were recommended but I'm not sure if I have to run them and what they do ??

I would just like to know if my Joomla will have any problems if I don't run the additional commands?

Here is the commands from the other post: and note I did not use the dundog installation or dungog or whatever it says here, I just used the wiki.contribs method. but here is a copy of the other post below:

yum --enablerepo=dungog install joomla smeserver-joomla

Afterwards this is what you should paste at command line:
1)
touch /opt/joomla/configuration.php ;\
chmod 660 /opt/joomla/configuration.php ;\
chown www.www /opt/joomla/configuration.php

2)
nano /opt/joomla/globals.php
(then change define( 'RG_EMULATION', 0 ) from 1 to 0 )

3)
now you have to go to www.yoursite.com/joomla and follow the wizard (username joomla, databasename joomla) and get the database password with:
config show joomla (which you also paste at command line)

4)
at last you paste at command line:
rm -rf /opt/joomla/installation

Done!

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Anyhow my question is. Is it recommended to complete those commands and what do they do for Joomla ?
Or will my Joomla installation be ok without running #2,3,4 from above ???

Please advise thanks

P.S I've run many of the contribs using the wiki.contibs instructions and they seem to work very well without problems for me, But I've only installed the ones that just say wget, then yum local install , the easy one LOL
Just thought you might like to know
Thanks for any help on this topic

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[stephen noble]

there are two different contribs
the instructions at dungog don't relate to dberteld's rpm

[Agent86]

there are two different contribs
the instructions at dungog don't relate to dberteld's rpm

Ok thanks,

but even though they don't relate I was unable to change the language on the joomla installation from the wiki.contribs. Only after I ran the instructions #1 from above was the language able to be changed. to english from german or something. Anyhow Just fyi and thanks for the reply.

I'm assuming by your answer that I really did not need to run any of the commands of 1-4 from above even though #1 did do something for me, but perhaps some other fix would have gotten me to be able to change my  default language as well, but I did not see anything else about it so I decided to try the #1.

Thanks again.