Jasiek’s Blog

When setting up Joomla on Windows 2003 server with PHP in FastCGI mode I was getting an error:
PHP Warning:
fopen … failed to open stream: Permission denied in …\admin.config.php on line 374
I’ve searched high and low and there was no solution - I knew that this is the permission issue. Of course I had Internet Guest [...]

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Use file manager to change permissions (as indicated during install)
use htaccess.txt as .htaccess but add the following:
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on
php_value session.save_path /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/sessions
also turn off PHP Safe Mode

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I agree with most of the tips, and I always welcome new tricks! I always install JoomlaExplorer and JoomlaFCK (and ColorLab) in every new websites, but I will follow the rest of this advice from now on. One more thing to add is to try to set up a [...]

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In Mambo templates item title is sometimes broken because of icons being in the same line. To fix this I changed file content.html.php in com_content as follows:
line 454:

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Steps to upgrade Mambo 4.5 to 4.5.1
1. Backup directory with mambo
2. Make backup of MySQL database
3. Make backup of configuration.php
4. Unzip mambo4.5.1 to directory with old mambo
5. Upgrade database by running sql script (from installation directory) updating database schema from 4.5-1.0.9 to 4.5.1
6. rename configuration.php-dist to configuration.php and edit it entering data from a backup [...]

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