README.md

Joomla! CMS™

Build Status

Overview

• This is the source of Joomla! 4.x.
• Joomla's Official website.
• Joomla! 4.0 version history.
• Detailed changes are in the changelog.

What is Joomla?

• Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS) which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications.
• It is a simple and powerful web server application which requires a server with PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL to run. You can find full technical requirements here.
• Joomla! is free and Open Source software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

Looking for an installable package?

Joomla is not installable out of the box from this repository, please use:

• For the latest stable package: https://downloads.joomla.org
• For a nightly package: https://developer.joomla.org/nightly-builds.html

How to get a working installation from the source

For detailed instructions please visit https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Setting_Up_Your_Local_Environment

You will need:

• PHP - basically the same as you need for running a Joomla Site, but you need the cli (command line interface) Version (see https://docs.joomla.org/Configuring_a_LAMPP_server_for_PHP_development)
• Composer - for managing Joomla's PHP Dependencies. For help installing composer please read the documentation at https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
• Node.js - for compiling Joomla's Javascript and SASS files. For help installing Node.js please follow the instructions available on https://nodejs.org/en/
• Git - for version management. Download from here https://git-scm.com/downloads (MacOS users can also use Brew and Linux users can use the built-in package manager, eg apt, yum, etc).

Steps to setup the local environment:

• Clone the repository:

git clone [email protected]:joomla/joomla-cms.git

• Go to the joomla-cms folder:

cd joomla-cms

• Go to the 4.0-dev branch:

git checkout 4.0-dev

• Install all the needed composer packages:

composer install

• Install all the needed npm packages:

npm install

Do you want to improve Joomla?

• Where to request a feature?
• How do you report a bug on the Issue Tracker?
• Get Involved: Joomla! is community developed software. Join the community.
• Documentation for Developers.
• Documentation for Web designers.

Copyright

• Copyright (C) 2005 - 2019 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
• Distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later
• See License details