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Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs issue on IIS7

Hello, I have Joomla 1.5.9 running with php 5.2.8, mySQL 5.1.31 on IIS7 on a vista 64 dev box. I have both SEO Settings "Search Engine Friendly URLs" and "Use Apache mod_rewrite" working correctly. I'm also setting up a hosted site (with www.mochahosting.com). They use slightly older versions of the same software: Joomla 1.5.5, php 5.2...

Porting a website to Joomla: How do I deal with Javascript menus?

I am porting an existing site to Joomla 1.5. The menus on the existing site use rollover images and inline Javascript. How can I make the menus look the same in Joomla and use the Joomla menus, without rewriting the menu code? ...

Unable to edit Joomla's articles in terminal

How can you edit Joomla's articles in terminal? Problem: to know the location where Joomla stores its articles I tried to find articles unsuccessfully by locate Masi | xargs -0 grep great ...

Joomla and non-Joomla subfolders

I have a Joomla installation with search-friendly-urls at the root level of the domain, but my host is giving me access to my website stats (which requires authentication) in domain.com/stats, and I cannot see it, just a Joomla generated 404 error. I thought this might be due to the .htaccess so I tried adding this line to the top: Rew...

Try Joomla, Drupal and other PHP CMS package online?

Is there any website that allows me to try joomla, or drupal online? Basically I want to learn Joomla and Drupal, but don't feel like download the whole source and install it on my computer and start configuring it. I would prefer an online service ( preferably free!) that allows me to do just that. Is there any such websites availabl...

Joomla: Parameters of List Section Layout are not inherited

Hi, I am Joomla I have a menu item that lists categories in a section. I have changed some of the parameters (like 'do not display headers'). It works on the initial category listing, however after navigating into categories from that page, these parameters no longer apply. For example, lets say we have a menu item 'News' with some pr...

Unable to have subURLs in Joomla

I have a domain www.mysite.com. I would like to have the following domains books.mysite.com news.mysite.com Is it possible to have the subURLs in one Joomla installation when the content in the subURLs differ? ...

How do you build the user object in Joomla 1.0?

I've got a helper script for a Joomla 1.0 module I'm developing. I'm using it to perform AJAX tasks (reading and writing to the database, returning JSON), so I need to stop Joomla outputting its headers and whatnot. I've got around this so far by hacking together some code to do the necessary includes to set up the database connection, ...

How to embed an XLS in a Joomla page?

I need to know how to embed a Excel spreadsheet in a Joomla site. ...

Passing $_GET[] parameters to a script with Jumi?

I am using Jumi to include a number of PHP scripts on Joomla! articles and it works great. The problem I am having is with passing variables (in the form of $_GET parameters) to a PHP script. Lets say I have a script "index.php" and I wish to pass the $_GET[] parameter "var" with the value of "10". This would normally be accomplishe...

Do you have any download hit counter per user Module in joomla ?

In my project one download button is there . if user download button click then i will show count of download . is it possiable have any module for download hit counter ? ...

Unable to put Python code to Joomla

I have a Python code from Google app engine. I need to implement it to Joomla. How can you implement Python code to Joomla? [edit after the 1st answer] It is enough for me that I can put the code to a module position. ...

Is it a security risk not to use a .htaccess file?

I have a Joomla site www.siteA.com and another Joomla site www.siteA.com/siteB. I have a .htaccess -file at siteA, but not at siteB. Is it a security risk not to have a .htaccess -file at siteB? ...

Unable to put Joomla articles open at a right URL

Problem: My articles have the right urls: for example, newsite.com/article. However, by clicking an article I get an empty article. I can see my sidebar. I moved my Joomla installation to a different folder in my server. I want to change my domain from OldSite.com to NewSite.com. I am not sure whether I need to change the database or n...

SCM for CMS

I'm having trouble covering all the issues with doing Software Configuration Management on a CMS (specifically, Joomla!). I'm writing custom templates, of course, but also custom modules and components. These websites and apps are for clients, not in-house. I want to actually version the configuration of the site, not just the code ...

Manual links with SEF on Joomla!

Say you want to create a manual link to an article in Joomla! (that is, an "External Link" type menu item or a link within an article). You must start the URL with "index.php?...", not an absolute URL, or it will break compatibility with Search Engine Friendly URLs. With SEF off, you can just go to the front-end of your site and copy t...

How can i create multiple joomla websites with the same users/passwords?

How can i create multiple joomla websites with the same users/passwords ? if someone creates a user on any of these websites , hes user can be used in all of them , if someone changes password/any data they will be updated on the other websites also. ...

Is Joomla good for social networking site? Un-biased pros and cons on Joomla

We have used Joomla as an out-of-box CMS for our company website. Now we got a requirement from customer to create a travel recommendation website. Customer never used Joomla for programming. He has used Joomla as a out-of-box component. They need to create destination and write on on destination with comments, rating etc by the oth...

making joomla search page search engine friendly

Hello, I want to add some seo features to a joomla search component, such as meta and integrated title page. What should i hack in the file ? Thanks joomla verion 1.0.15 ...

Joomla Installation in Subdir, index.php in root?

Is it possible to install Joomla in a sub directory and move the index.php to the root. I know this can be done with WordPress but I can't seem to find the Joomla Equivalent. I am already using a redirect, not a very good one. I really don't want all the joomla folders clogging up my root directory. Thanks in advance, sam ...