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Joomla! Deployment Guide for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

Eric Reid, September 2009

Introduction

This document provides guidance for readers looking to install and configure the open source Joomla! content management system (CMS) with the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System product family. The Joomla! CMS is designed for building web sites and powerful online applications.

Note: This scenario uses Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System (version 2009.Q2). The Sun servers in this setup use the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release and PHP, MySQL, and Apache web server from pkg.opensolaris.org.

For more details, see the list of contents below.

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Contents

• 1. Overview
  • 1.1 Intent
  • 1.2 Background
  • 1.3 Server and OS Setup
  • 1.4 About Joomla!
• 2. Installing and Using Joomla! With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
  • 2.1 Applicable Services for Unified Storage Systems
    • 2.1.1 NFS
    • 2.1.2 CIFS/SMB
    • 2.1.3 iSCSI
  • 2.2 Potential Configurations Utilizing Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
  • 2.3 Step-by-Step Installation
    • 2.3.1 Setting Up the Share on the Storage Device
    • 2.3.2 Setting Up MySQL
    • 2.3.3 Setting Up Joomla!
• 3. Tuning Joomla! Performance
• 4. In Summary

Author-Recommended Resources

• MySQL Guide on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (Sun BluePrints paper; registration required)
• Deploying Apache HTTP Web Server on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (Sun BluePrints paper; registration required)
• Sun Unified Storage Solution documentation on http://docs.sun.com
• Joomla!

For More Information

Here are additional resources.

Sun Storage Resources

• Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System web site
• Sun Open Storage web page
• Sun Storage Solutions web page
• Discussions, such as the Sun Storage forums and the Sun Hardware - Servers forums
• Wikis, such as the Sun Storage Administration wiki and the BigAdmin Storage Tech Tips wiki
• Storage Stop Blog
• Resources on BigAdmin, such as the Storage resource collection (includes community submissions)

General Sun Links

• Sun download site
• Sun training courses web site
• Discussions, such as Sun forums and the BigAdmin Discussions collection
• Product documentation at http://docs.sun.com and the Documentation Center
• Sun wikis, such as the Sun BluePrints wiki and the BigAdmin wiki
• Support:
  • Sun resources:
    • Register your Sun gear
    • Services
    • SunSolve Online
  • Community system administration experts

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