We are often approached, as are many Joomla! developers, by those unfortunate enough to have their websites exploited for one reason or another, asking us to fix the immediate problem and also secure their site against future attacks. Needless to say this can be quite costly, not ownly in our fees but also in terms of business downtime and potential loss of clients visiting your sites, and loss of confidence (particularly with Ecommerce sites). Here are some basic tips to help you secure your site and prevent this happening in the first place.
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I mostly blog about the Joomla! Content Management System, business networking, and other geeky subjects which I think are interesting.
Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for leading the website design team.
I am primarily involved with the day to day management of our website projects, ongoing support contracts and liaising with our clients from across the world.
I am primarily involved with the day to day management of our website projects, ongoing support contracts and liaising with our clients from across the world.
Tips to secure your Joomla! site and prevent hacking
Posted by Ruth Cheesley
on Saturday, 26 June 2010
in Joomla! Content Management System
Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for leading the website design team...
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We are often approached, as are many Joomla! developers, by those unfortunate enough to have their websites exploited for one reason or another, asking us to fix the immediate problem and also secure their site against future attacks. Needless to say this can be quite costly, not ownly in our fees but also in terms of business downtime and potential loss of clients visiting your sites, and loss of confidence (particularly with Ecommerce sites). Here are some basic tips to help you secure your site and prevent this happening in the first place.
How do I stop spam being submitted on my Joomla site's forms?
Posted by Ruth Cheesley
on Saturday, 26 June 2010
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Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for leading the website design team...
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Are you sick of receiving spam submissions on your Joomla! website forms? Do you have spam bots sign up for accounts and post on your forums? There are several options available to you nowadays to work against these pesky spammers!
What is GPL?
Posted by Ruth Cheesley
on Saturday, 26 June 2010
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GPL stands for General Public License and is sometimes referred to as GNU GPL. GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix" and is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. GNU was developed by Richard Stallman, and was provided under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Although the GNU GPL was originally intended for the GNU operating system, it was quickly adopted by lots of other free software. It has undergone several revisions, and there are a few "sub-types", with the latest version of GNU-GPL being version 3.
Forgotten your jSecure access keyword?
Posted by Ruth Cheesley
on Saturday, 26 June 2010
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If you've secured your site using JSecure, you'll know that you need to browse to /administrator/?keyword to access your admin back-end. What happens if you forget the keyword, or something goes wrong with the jSecure plugin?
How to install an update/upgrade patch to your Joomla! Installation
Posted by Ruth Cheesley
on Saturday, 26 June 2010
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NOTE: THIS ARTICLE HAS AN UPDATE AVAILABLE HERE
The number of people I see posting on forums asking for support on components who are running versions of Joomla! sometimes 4 or more versions out of date is really quite alarming - when I point out to them the error of their ways, often the first question is "Well how do I upgrade to the latest version?". Hopefully this article should help clarify the process involved with installing the latest patches for Joomla! and help you stay up to date!
Joomla! docs has a full walk-through of this process, which is where most of the information in this article is from.
