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.
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.
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 [...]
Note: This solution is for Joomla 1.0.x
This post is a continuation (actually a better solution) from my previous post on Joomla Session Save Path
The solution is a slightly modified version from the original post found at rackerhacker.com
Change the umask in ‘/etc/proftpd.conf’ from ‘022′ to ‘002′.
Then, update the directory permissions by running the following at the [...]
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
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