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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 [...]

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Perfect Permissions for Joomla and Plesk

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 command line: cd /var/www/vhosts/[domain.com] chown -R [username]:psacln httpdocs chmod [...]

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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:

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Editing Content With Joomla: Frontend

I recently created this screencast demonstrating to a client the front end editing capabilities of Joomla. This installation utilizes JCE and all JCE plugins for the WYSIWYG. The video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript [...]

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