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Ways to speed up Joomla 1.5
Requests to increase the speed on Joomla 1.5 websites are common. What follows are the best techniques I have found. Please note: backup your site and database before trying any of these. Please perform these changes at your own risk.
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Joomla New Item Email Notification
This example is for Joomla 1.0.15
If you have worked with Joomla for any length of time you will have noticed that the workflow system has some room for improvement. Following is one way to work around this shortcoming.
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Joomla 1.0.x Writeable Directories
The following is a list of the directories that must be ‘writeable’ for Joomla 1.0.x to work properly. I’m including it here as a reference. In most cases individuals that install Joomla will simply chmod the permissions for these directories to 707 or 777. I have found through personal experience that this is not very secure (using 707 or 777 anywhere on your site allows a ‘hacker’ who may find a vulnerable script to upload anything they want to your server – aka ebay/paypal spoof sites, etc).
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Perfect Permissions for Joomla and Plesk
Note: This solution is obsolete and only for Joomla 1.0.x. Please upgrade to the latest version of Joomla.
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Joomla Session Save Path
If you are looking at this post you have probably seen the following error when trying to install Joomla 1.0.x:
Warning: is_writable() [function.is-writable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/lib/php/session) is not within the allowed path(s):(/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/installation/index.php on line 154
The solution to this is two-fold:
Editing Content With Joomla: Frontend
I recently created this screencast demonstrating to a client the front end editing capabilities of Joomla 1.0.x. This installation utilizes JCE and all JCE plugins for the WYSIWYG.