Question
How to use Joomla, via Digital Ocean, to host personal website?
- Posted on November 2, 2015
- DigitalOceanJoomlaDeployment
Asked by mikechepesiuk
I wrote my own HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and I just want to host the website somewhere. I chose digital Ocean, thus Joomla, however I’ve found Joomla is constructed around templates. I want to use my own code. How do I do this?
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Joomla is a content management system/framework. If you just want to host static HTML you can just spin up a droplet using the default Ubuntu image, ssh into it and run:
This will install the apache web server. You can then drop your content into /var/www/html using an SFTP client like Filezilla. Once your content is in that folder it will be accessible via a web browser.
(Alternately you can use the LAMP image when creating your droplet which already has apache installed but also includes PHP and the MySQL database server)