This tutorial explains how to install Joomla manually on your web hosting account. We focus on the installation of Joomla 3, as it is the latest stable branch officially recommended for all new projects. Step #1. Update to Joomla 3.9. Some older versions of Joomla (before Joomla 3.5) do not support PHP 7. However, newer versions of Joomla has built-in compatibility with PHP 7. So in order to utilize it, first update to Joomla 3.9. Joomla! 2.5 is a new version of Joomla! base on Joomla! 1.7 with many changes and improvements. With Joomla 2.5 the user community placed a large emphasis on making the CMS installation process as simple as possible and new versions more frequent. This does not mean that you canot update our 2.5.x demos to Joomla! 3.1.1 or Joomla 3.x. Since our templates and extensions are already released for all Joomla! versions starting from 1.7 and up , you can use Joomla Update component in your demo admin and upgrade to Joomla 3.x STS ( short term support). Now you will need to upgrade your website to the last version of 1.7 which was 1.7.5 and download that file here Joomla_1.7.0_to_1.7.5-Stable-Patch_Package.zip. Do the same as previously, unzip, copy the files from zip then paste them into your folder/directory of the website. Learn how to upgrade from Joomla 2.5.x to Joomla 3.0.1. I will also show you how to do this on a HostGator server. How to Upgrade Joomla 2.5.x to Joomla 3.x Manually ?????????? ??? Joomla 2.5.x ???? ?????? Joomla 3.x This upgrade method works for Joomla 1.6, 1.7 How to upgrade Joomla 2.5.28 to 3.3 manually? No new notification came up to screen like in the videos on the web. I think this is because of Joomla 2.5.x is has been deprecated since 31.12.2014. I do not know how to migrate now. Could that be because of I work on my local computer? Whether to do 2.5 or 3 depends totally on whether you are migrating third party extensions that are Joomla 3 ready or not. If you are just using the core, Joomla 3 is a si