Creating a Joomla website with a PostgreSQL database
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Updated at April 1, 2025
This tutorial will teach you to deploy a Joomla CMS website with a PostgreSQL-controlled database in your Yandex Cloud infrastructure. The website will be hosted on an Apache HTTP web server installed on an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM. Yandex Cloud DNS will be responsible for domain management, while TLS encryption of traffic will be involve a TLS certificate issued in Yandex Certificate Manager.
Note
The steps detailed here were checked for Joomla CMS version 5.2.4, PostgreSQL DBMS version 17, and an Ubuntu 24.04 VM. The sequence of actions may vary for other versions of these products.
You can create the infrastructure for your Joomla-based website with a PostgreSQL database using one of these tools:
- Management console: Create your infrastructure step by step in the Yandex Cloud management console.
- Terraform: Streamline creating and managing your resources with the infrastructure as code (IaC) approach. Download a Terraform configuration example and deploy your infrastructure using the Yandex Cloud Terraform provider.