I have never installed Joomla before, but have installed other system that are php-based. This product made the installation of Joomla almost totally hands-free. I would recommend it highly for anyone installing it simply because you don't have to guess, most things are done for you with a few simple prompts. The only drawback as installing it on a "safe" php system. It didn't set the directory permissions quite right, but that was easily fixed with a telnet session.