Joomla Command Line Tools

This is a script developed by Joomlatools to ease the management of Joomla sites.

It is designed to work on Linux and MacOS. Windows users can use it in Joomlatools Vagrant box

Installation

1. Install using Composer:

$ composer global require joomlatools/joomla-console

1. Tell your system where to find the executable by adding the composer directory to your PATH. Add the following line to your shell configuration file called either .profile, .bash_profile, .bash_aliases, or .bashrc. This file is located in your home folder.

$ export PATH="$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin"

1. Verify the installation

$ joomla --version

1. To create a new site with the latest Joomla version, run:

   joomla site:create testsite

The newly installed site will be available at /var/www/testsite and testsite.dev after that. The default Super User's name and password is set to: admin / admin.

By default, the web server root is set to /var/www. You can pass --www=/my/server/path to commands for custom values. You can choose the Joomla version or the sample data to be installed:

  joomla site:create testsite --joomla=2.5 --sample-data=blog

1. For other available options, run:

$ joomla --list

1. Read our documentation pages to learn more about using the tool.

Requirements

• Composer
• Joomla version 2.5 and up.

Contributing

Fork the project, create a feature branch, and send us a pull request.

Authors

See the list of contributors.

License

The joomlatools/joomla-console plugin is licensed under the MPL v2 license - see the LICENSE file for details.