The Apple Touch Icon Files and Joomla Performance

If you want to see something interesting, then do the following: ssh to the server hosting your Joomla website. Change to the domlogs folder. Run the following grep on the main log file of your domain: grep ‘MobileSafari’ yourjoomlawebsitelogfile.txt > mobilesafari-log.txt After doing the last step, you should have a mobilesafari-log.txt file in your current […]

How We Solved a Major Problem with the “System – Page Cache” Joomla Plugin

One of the most annoying problems with the System – Page Cache plugin is the fact that when you update an article, then that update won’t reflect on the website immediately, as the cached page would still be served to the visitors and won’t be refreshed until it “expires”. In fact, the absolute majority of […]

Using the Eximstats Database to Monitor the Health of Your Joomla Site

Note: The following post assumes that your Joomla website is powered by a WHM/cPanel server and that the Eximstats service is enabled (you can enable the Eximstats service from WHM’s Service Manager). At itoctopus, we go at great lengths to monitor the security of our managed Joomla websites, to the point where we check the […]

How to Display an “Edit Article” Link on the Joomla Frontend when Logged in to the Backend

On any news site, one of the most convenient things for editors is to have an “Edit Article” link on the article page. Such a link will save a lot of time for the editors since without it they will need to go to the backend, search for the article (which will put pressure on […]