Troubleshooting is a simple matter of following a process. In fact, I believe that anyone can learn the basic troubleshooting skills needed for the successful care and feeding of their website.
This short chapter ties together many things that have been covered in this book. Several trouble spots have been covered in the various chapters and now you will gain a methodology to apply those various solutions to your problem. The key topic in this chapter is for you to learn how to troubleshoot your Joomla! installation.
When system trouble occurs, many people panic, freeze, or start turning things on and off with no methodology. In the computer services industry, this is known as "shotgunning" or in other words, throwing every possible solution at it at once.
I've seen situations where someone will ask you to assist, and in the meantime, they ask someone else to as well. What happens is you're both in the website, and do not know it. Talk about a mess!
In this chapter, the first recipe...