Its easy and fun, believe me!

Once you have signed up and recieved your welcome email from xko with your new Web Hosting account Details you are ready to begin.

1. Login to your Control Panel for your Domain. Example.. http://yourdomain.com.au/cpanel

1.a In the Control Panel you can totally Control your Hosting and Domain(s)

2. You now need to create a "Database" and a "user" associated to it. You do this by clicking the Icon "MySql Database Wizard"

2b. Make sure to note down the Database name you create, the user and password. IMPORTANT!!!

2c. Create A MySQL Database Using The Wizard by clicking the Icon in your Cpanel..

• Click the MySql Database Wizard.
• When the page loads, enter the name of your new database in the "New Database" text box.
• Next, click on the Next Step button.
• You should see the following statement:
• "Added the database YOUR_DATABASE_NAME."
• Enter the username and password you want to use for this database in the "Username" and "Password" text boxes, respectively.
• Next, click on the "Next Step" button.
• You should see the following statement:
• "Added USERNAME with the password PASSWORD."
• When the page loads you will see a two-column table. The top of the table provides a checkbox option "ALL PRIVILEGES" allowing you to create the database with all privileges.
• NOTE: Typically you may want to check the "All Privileges"
• Continue the wizard by clicking on the Next Step button.
• You should see the following statement:
• "User USERNAME was added to the database DATABASE.",
• When the page loads you will have three available options to choose, Return to Home - Click this link if you want to return to the cPanel dashboard.

3. Upload Joomla to your VALU Hosting Account using filemanager in the Control Panel.

3a. Download Joomla from the Joomla Website to your Computer.

3.b Open up Control Panel, Click on the icon called "File Manager". Here you will see many options. You want to choose upload, click browse, choose the Joomla Zip file and upload it to your web directory root. i.e /public_html

3c. Once uploaded, select the zip file, then choose Extract.

4. Set Joomla File Permissions. Using Control Panel file manager select each file and ensure to set the permissions.

After the installation any insecure "7" settings can be reset back to something more secure.

for Example: Files = 644  and  Directories = 755

644 =  rw- r-- r--  = Owner has Read and Write

Group has Read only

Other has Read only

and for directories;

755 =  rwx r-x r-x    = Owner has Read, Write and Execute

Group has Read and Execute only

Other has Read and Execute only

Or you can use, 655 for files and 777 for Folders if you run into issues.

5. Joomla Installation. Simply open your Web Browser, and type in http://yourdomain.com.au , and you will be presented with the Joomla Installation Screen. Simply follow the instructions and you will have your website running in no time!

Please open a support ticket if you need some help.