The Ramblings of a Developer, Project Manager, Sys Admin and Tech Junkie
Joomla has a reputation for being a difficult platform from an SEO perspective. To be honest alot of that is a myth and alot of it is due to the prevalence of javascript heavy templates and extensions being used on Joomla websites (remember, search engines don’t like having to read through reams of code to…
OK, so Joomla 1.0.x stream is pretty ancient at this stage but there are still a heck of alot of websites running this as their platform. Now it ran perfectly on php 5 but when 5.3 came out it crashed and burned – as did the then current versions of Joomla 1.5! This was eventually…
One thing that crops up every now and then is a failure when trying to install Joomla 1.5 on the latest servers with newer versions of MySQL. J1.5 is quite old now and the installation script uses “TYPE=MyISAM” all over the place. TYPE has been deprecated and replaced with ENGINE. No wonder the installer fails.
One of my clients deleted their main menu by accident. No, they didn’t just delete some menu items but deleted the Main Menu from the menu manager. Obviously this caused all sorts of problems as one cannot recover from something like this using the Menu Trash feature. Luckily there’s a workaround. I could still see…
Here’s something you don’t see happening too often. Both streams 1.5 and 1.6/1.7 suffering from the same issue. In this case it’s something that you really should pay attention to as the devs have discovered that the random number generator used during password recovery is not quite up to scratch. Project: Joomla! SubProject: All Severity:…
Note this relates to certs for dedicated hosting – shared hosts will sell these transparently. We’ve all created self-signed SSL certs and while these do the job they just don’t cut it from a customer satisfaction point of view. “Your website is down, it keeps complaining about security”. So in this case we need a…
This one slipped by me altogether. Another security release from a busy Joomla team. It’s a medium level security patch for an information disclosure issue hitting Webkit browsers. More details and download link here
I’ve recently been working on a simple Joomla 1.7 website and as I often do I decided to use an old self-made template as a base. Now one of the things about Joomla 1.7 is that the templating system has changed somewhat so I can’t just copy the Joomla 1.5 version over with no changed.…
Exposé Gallery is pretty old at this stage but I still find it by far the easiest gallery component for an end user to use. It’s far easier for end users to create galleries and upload batches of images. But it is more dependant on server settings than most other components because it is basically…
Every now and then (once a year only hopefully) one comes across a nasty problem. Well that happened to us a couple of days ago. Corruption of a MySQL Database right down the FRM and MYI files. Even worse it seemed that MySQL’s own data schema was getting progressively more corrupt. Symptoms Databases appearing empty…