IJoomla Installer Installation

NOTE!!! This page covers the installation process for JomSocial 3.0. If you are looking for an installation guide for JomSocial 2.8 click here.
If you require even older version installation instructions, please click here

Overview

This guide covers a fresh installation of the jomSocial 3 component into the Joomla CMS. You will need a working Joomla! site in order to install JomSocial. Please refer to the article, minimum system requirements, to determine the requirements your server will have to meet.
If you are upgrading JomSocial, please refer to one of the following pages

Adding Support and Install Domain Licenses

Before you can proceed with the installation of JomSocial 3, you must add these domains into your account area. To do this please navigate to main JomSocial site and click at the "My Account" link in the top right corner

The area with your account information and all of the settings you can do from there will show up. If you're an old user, the account area will require you to fill up the basic account information such are first and last name, or any missing account data. Please, fill them up to proceed

Once account information is properly filled, you will be able to open "My Downloads" page with all of the purchases you ever made

For every license you might have, please enter the support and install domain

Support Domain - This will be the domain you will officially get technical support for
Domains you wish to install this product on - All te additional domains you want to install the component on. No technical support will be provided for those.

LOCALHOST INSTALLATION If you are installing on the localhost, just enter the domain name of your live site in both, support and install domain. You are not required to define localhost as support or installation domain

Downloading iJoomla Installer

After support and instalation domains have been set, the green download button will become active and you will be able to download iJoomla installer

Download the installer and save it on your hard drive

Check for Installation Permissions

1. Login to your Joomla Administrator backend. On the Administrator Panel, click on System Information.

2. Click the Directory Permissions tab and make sure all folders are Writable.

Install iJoomla installer

1. From the Extensions dropdown menu select Extension Manager.

2. From the Upload Package File tab under Install, browse for the com_community_[version].zip file and select it. Then, click Upload & Install to begin installation.

3. Once uploaded, click Complete Your Installation.

Completing the Installation

1. The first JomSocial installation screen appears. Make sure all the requirements are met and then click Next.

Note: If any of the values are marked in yellow (like last one on our screen shot example), do not worry, JomSocial will probably still work since the values shown on this screen are Recommended and NOT the Minimum system requirements. To see the minimum system requirements, please click here.

2. Press Next on all screens until installation is completed.

3. Click Done to finish the installation. You will be greeted with the JomSocial Backend Control Panel.

Alternative Installation Method

You can also manually install JomSocial by first uploading all the files to your hosted server via FTP and then installing it from the directory using the following steps:

1. Extract the 'com_community_[version].zip' file.

2. Upload the extracted folder to the /tmp directory located in the root directory where Joomla is installed using your FTP client.

3. Go to Extensions > Extension Manager. In the "Install from Directory" section, put the path to the folder that you have uploaded just now. Then click Install.