Joomla 6 on Ubuntu 24.04

## Joomla 6 on Ubuntu 24.04 by cloudimg

Joomla is one of the longest-running open source content management systems on the web, powering sites for governments, universities, charities and small businesses for over twenty years. The cloudimg image installs Joomla 6.1 from the official joomla.org GitHub release alongside Apache 2.4, MySQL 8.0, and PHP 8.3 — all from Ubuntu 24.04 noble universe (no third-party APT repositories).

Why Choose cloudimg?

* 24/7 Expert Support with guaranteed 24 hour response. support@cloudimg.co.uk

* Production Ready from Launch Pre-configured, security-patched, validated

* Azure Native Integration Azure Linux Agent, cloud-init, Gen2 Hyper-V, TrustedLaunch

* Per VM admin password Every deployed VM rotates the cloudimg admin password at first boot

What is Included

* Joomla 6.1 from the official joomla-cms GitHub release at /var/www/html/joomla

* Apache 2.4.x with mod_rewrite enabled, vhost auto-configured

* MySQL 8.0.x with joomla DB and joomla MySQL user (per-VM password)

* PHP 8.3.x with mysql, gd, mbstring, xml, curl, zip, intl, bz2 extensions

* Cassiopeia front-end template and Atum admin template (Joomla 6 defaults)

* joomla-firstboot.service rotating MySQL root + DB + admin passwords + bootstrapping site

* installation/ directory removed at first boot (Joomla security requirement)

* Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base with latest security patches

* 24/7 cloudimg support with guaranteed 24 hour response SLA

Recommended Virtual Machine Sizes

* Standard_B2s (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) — small-to-medium Joomla sites

* Standard_D2s_v5 (2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM) — moderate-traffic site with caching extensions

* Standard_D4s_v5 (4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM) — high-traffic site with many third-party extensions