Installation

System requirements

The following system components are needed for running all Mobila Joomla! features. If your hosting providers does not provide all of these Mobile Joomla! might not be fully functional or the installation fails.

PHP 5.0
MySQL 5.0 (if you try running Mobile Joomla! on MySQL 4 you will get all sort of funny error messages)
Joomla! 1.5
GD2 (PHP image library for image scaling)
Zip PHP extension is highly recommended (or installation may timeout on slow servers)
bzip2 (PHP bz extension, prerequisitement for TeraWURFL device database)
mysqli (prerequisitement for TeraWURFL device database)
Procedure creation right in MySQL database
File creation rights on PHP
At least 100 MB of database disk space
At least 64 MB of memory for running PHP scripts (PHP memory limit)

TeraWURFL required about 25Mb of space in database. The tables contain information about almost all mobile devices in the world (screen resolution, markup language, etc), and the size cannot be reduced (actually there is a way to install Mobile Joomla! without TeraWURFL, see below).

Some hosting packages are known to be problematic

Godaddy hosting special instructions - does not work out of the box

Directory write access

Mobile Joomla! requires following directories to have write access on your PHP hosting.

/administrator/components 
/components 
/modules 
/plugins 
/plugins/system 
/templates

If you get error like...

JFolder::create: Could not create directory 
Warning! Failed to move file.

... during the installation the write access need to be set manually. Here are some instructions how to set Joomla! directories writeable.

Installation process

To begin with, download the latest Mobile Joomla! package from Mobile Joomla! Download. Save the package on your computer, and go to your Joomla! administrator panel. Select "Install/Uninstall" option from "Extensions" menu.

Mobile Joomla! install

Browse the Mobile Joomla! package from your computer

Mobile Joomla! install

The installation takes 15-30 seconds. You should see the following screen upon a successful installation.

If your installation fails in this point, or takes longer than few minutes, please consult FAQ for possible reasons (blank screen). Usually it is because the hosting provider is using too old PHP version, does not support all PHP features or PHP does not have enough system resources to perform the installation.

Mobile Joomla! install success

Now you can start finetuning your mobile site from Kuneri Mobile Joomla! menu.

If you have further questions, please visit the Mobile Joomla! Forums.