Technical requirements

To complete the exercise proposed in this section of the book, you need to have a Joomla instance installed on a Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack, either locally or remotely. You can easily install Joomla following the instructions published at https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Installing_Joomla.

If you don’t have an online hosting, you can launch a Joomla instance online for free using the official service at https://launch.joomla.org.

Note

LAMP is commonly used to refer to a Linux-based hosting environment, on either local, shared, or dedicated hosting, which offers Apache, PHP, and MySQL services.

Once you have your instance up and running, you can log in to the backend section of the website, accessible from <yoursiteurl.tld>/administrator. This represents the Joomla backend application that we’ll explore in depth in the next section.