Joomla! is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. Over the years Joomla! has won several awards. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS that allows you to build powerful online applications. -https://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html
Right click the downloaded XAMPP file > Extract All...
Right click the downloaded Joomla! .zip file > Extract All...
Rename the extracted folder joomla
Cut the joomla folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory
Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe
Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space > Open PowerShell windows here...
Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the Joomla! database
./mysql -u root CREATE DATABASE joomla DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci; GRANT ALL ON joomla.* TO 'joomla_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'J00mla!!'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;
Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/joomla
The Joomla! setup screen should be displayed
Set the site title and create an administrative account login > Click the Next button