What better way to provide support for your localized version of Joomla! International than to set up a help server for your users. Although there are tons of help content already created for Joomla!, your users may not be able to use this because they may speak a different language than English.

It is possible to set up your own help server and use this along with Joomla! International to provide language sensitive support to your users. The first step is to download the needed help files here . This is a collection of MySQL dump files from the Joomla! Help Server. Next you need to set up a domain for the help server to run on. For the Joomla! Mongolia project we set up http://help.joomla-mongolia.com. After setting up the domain and choosing a name it is necessary to install a base version of Joomla! (without the sample data!) and then import the SQL dump files into the database. This is a pretty straightforward process. The daunting part is actually translating the help content, which can be a very long process indeed however if you are planning on setting a sustainable Joomla! community you should be able to enlist the help of your local community to lend a hand. The last step is to change one file in your JIE package.

In order to change the help server, you need to edit the file located in language\language_name\admin.language.php and edit the following line:

define('_ADM_HELP_SERVER_URL', 'http://your_help_server_url_here');

The benefit of using the language file for this is that you can direct users to different help servers based on the language they are using in the administration.