2 out of 3 times when we fix a hacked Joomla website, we discover that a backup of that Joomla website is either located in the root directory of the website, or worse, under a backup folder, which is, in its turn, located under the root directory. Some websites make it very easy for the […]
We have worked with weird Joomla problems before, but this problem took the concept of weirdness to a whole new level! Here’s what was happening: The .htaccess file is hacked (hacking the .htaccess file is common and is easily remediable) and is redirecting traffic to the website when using Google Chrome to google.com, while traffic […]
We are getting customers on a daily basis nowadays asking us to migrate their websites from Joomla 1.5.x to Joomla 2.5.x (we are also getting requests to migrate websites from Joomla 1.0.x to Joomla 2.5.x). Some of our customers inaccurately believe that it’s easy to migrate from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5, and think that […]
A major vulnerability on any website – and not just Joomla websites – is to have directory listing enabled. Directory listing is a default feature in Apache and IIS (the two most common web servers used for Joomla websites) that will allow anyone to view the list of files in a certain directory if the […]
A new customer called us today and told us that he’s not able to see the login form on the backend, so when he goes to http://ourclientjoomlawebsite.com/administrator/, he just doesn’t see anything at all. We were nearly confident that this problem will be very easy to fix because we’ve seen it many times before – […]
We got a call very early today from one of our clients telling us that whenever he tries to Joomla’s backend, he gets a “Component Not Found” error. The client used our Joomla emergency services because he called around 4 AM (it was a very active website and he needed to add new content before […]
Yesterday we had a client that told us that he was unable to login to his Joomla website. He told us that everytime he tries to login, he gets redirected back to the login page with no error! Since he was a technical person, he told us that he did a research on the subject […]
Setting the timezone is one of the trickiest things to do on any website, and while Joomla makes this easy for its users, it can still be very tricky. Let us explain why… Joomla allows the super administrator to change the website’s timezone in the configuration settings, by going to Site->Global Configuration->Server, and then changing […]
Every day we get at least one new customer who doesn’t have some key information about his website that will help us help him. This key information is usually a combination of username and password to his Joomla website. When we ask our new customer how come he doesn’t have this information, his answer is […]
In this post, we will discuss how real estate agents can use Joomla to build a website that serves their business. Before discussing which pages and functionalities should be included in such a website, let us examine what people expect when they visit the website of a real estate agent: They expect to search the […]
Some of our customers ask us “How long does it take for me to learn Joomla?” Of course, the first thing that you have in mind is how come these customers ask us about learning Joomla when they already have a Joomla website? Well, the thing is, there are many Joomla website owners out there […]
We have explained How to unlock a Joomla article before – and many of our clients and our readers benefited from our post – since we explained several ways on how to unlock any locked content on Joomla, whether it’s an article, a menu item, or a module. However, we got a question from one […]
We have discussed the Content Password plugin previously in a post explaining how to password protect a page in Joomla. Many of our readers have used it and have praised it. One of our customers, however, told us that he was seeing an “Internal Server Error” message when he uses this plugin on some of […]