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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Setting permissions for your site


The following security tasks can eliminate a lot of common security issues very quickly. These represent some of the common issues you'll run into as a new Joomla! user.

Tip

Be sure and make a FULL BACKUP of the files, folders, and database before making any changes in this chapter.

How to do it...

Many times incorrect permissions can lead to a hacked site. In this example, the permissions are set for 777 - this is bad. Note these permissions have been intentionally set this way for this book, but it is a common mistake that new Joomla! users encounter.

There are very few legitimate reasons for a site to have permissions set to 777, which means ANYONE, can read or write to your site.

Setting permissions for directories

  1. Open FileZilla and connect to your site.

  2. "HIGHLIGHT" all your Directories.

  3. Right click and select Permissions.

  4. Type in 755 in the Numeric value field.

  5. Check the box Recurse into subdirectories.

  6. Select Apply to directories only.

  7. Click OK to start the process...