Welcome to Joomla User Group Suffolk

Hullo Ruth,

Thanks for the reply and the advice.

Dave

Hi to you all new visitors, including my 'Self' and those who have been here before.

I am very proud to show you my ever evolving site. Discovering Joomlas capabilities is inspiring. I am pleased to say that I have got someone to bounce off the walls with excitement when new discoveries are made and happy to encourage those who need feedback. Please post me of email me.

www.elfinhealth.co.uk

Have a great weekend, with inspirational abundance.

Karen

Hi to all,

New to Joomla for about 1 month, and have a website up and running with Joomla. I will admit I have not set it up by myself and don't understand PHP although I know some HTML. Have a great friend based in Greece who has amazingly put together and used me as his test. Two heads better than one we have together created and no doubt will continue to do so with this great framework for websites.

Found you on-line with a query I had about user register, lost password. 

Looking forward to any meetings or discussions.

Karen

Hi Dave,

Hello and welcome to the forum, would be great if you could get to some meetings - we do hold some in Ipswich, wihch isn't too far away :)

RE your sites, please make sure you update your sites to 1.5.15 before you even consider going to 1.5x or 1.6x - 1.5.13 is quite out of date, including a security revision if memory serves me correctly (meaning you're at risk of getting your site exploited).

Ruth

Hi Chris,

The problem is solved.

The access under the URL domaninname.com/joomla/ is still an issue.

Maybe you can help me on this, too.

Thanks

Can you turn off "Search engine friendly" option and see if that resolves the problem?

If not, the .htaccess file is in the root of the Joomla installation. You need to download it and then you can alter it and ftp it back.

Any probs post back here and I will see if I can help.

Hi there,

1. It's a new Joomla install on Windows XP

2. I'm sure it's a problem from the .htaccess file, but I don't know how to solve it. For this I need help.

Thanks

Is it a new Joomla install and what O/S are you running it on?

I'm no expert but 2 things that I would check..

1 - You need to change something in the .htaccess file

2 - A plugin for redirecting or search engine friendly names isnt configured properly.

Hello,

First time when I access the articles from my site all of them are redirect to domainname/joomla/index.php/. Second time when try to access another article an warning message is displayed

"Page Not Found

The page you tried to access does not exist on this server. This page may not exist due to the following reasons: You are the owner of this web site and you have not uploaded (or incorrectly uploaded) your web site. For information on uploading your web site using FTP client software or web design software, click here for FTP Upload Information. The URL that you have entered in your browser is incorrect. Please re-enter the URL and try again. The Link that you clicked on incorrectly points to this page. Please contact the owner of this web site to inform them of this situation.

"

and the URL is domainname.com/joomla/.

Thanks for any help.

How about we double up with the Norfolk or Essex Joomla Group for one meeting?

I was introduced to Joomla! quite by chance when I offered to take over content management of a club website; I'd never heard of it before, and at first I wondered what I'd let myself in for! 

My previous (limited) experience of website design and management was with HTML scripting, MS Frontpage and uploading content with FTP, so this was new daparture for me.

However, I got to grips with the basics fairly quickly with the aid of the help topics on the Joomla! site, and now I feel pretty much at home with Joomla!

The next step is to upgrade the club's Joomla version from 1.0.12 to 1.5 (or 1.6 if I wait a while), if I can summon up the courage to do it!  The question is, is the upgrade worth the time and trouble if the website is working well at present?

I'm afraid I'm very unlikely to go to meetings, living to the west of Colchester as I do, but I hope JUGS will be interesting and useful.

Hi all,

We need to get planning events for the new year, and we would like your feedback on when/where you would like to have meetings.

Any suggestions?  Lowestoft is on the list for the next meeting courtesy of Blue Lobster IT but after that we're up for negotiation!

Ruth

It will likely be related to the ItemID.

If you look at the un-sef'd version of a URL you'll notice an ItemID, when you publish a module to a menu it links the module appearing with that ItemID.

I suspect that in some places you're linking to the page you expect to have the module show, without the ItemID being present in the URL, so it won't show.

A starting place at least!

Ruth

I have "latest news" module published to only show on the Front Page but some of my other pages show it but some do not.

Any ideas why?

So nice to see a community of Joomla lovers in the local area. I myself am based in Ipswich.

I am the owner of a web design company called Blend: http://www.blend.uk.com.

We use various open source platforms on a day to day basis, perhaps the most used one being Joomla.

I myself have used Joomla since it began and Mambo before that, so I suppose when it comes to choosing a CMS for a project, I tend to have a soft spot for the one I am most familiar with.

The best thing to happen to Joomla of late, for me personally, is template overrides, which allow me to have full control over the frontend output of 3rd party extensions, so no more messy 3rd party code breaking validation.

Anyway, I hope to participate more in this little community over the new 12 months, I'm looking forward to meeting like minded people here.

Lee

I have a plugin which displays a random picture in a article but when the article is published to the frontpage the plugin doesnt seem to be working as the picture is not displaying.

Any ideas on getting it to work?

Following on from

http://docs.joomla.org/Should_PHP_run_as_a_CGI_script_or_as_an_Apache_module%3F

I have run a PHP script containing the line:

"echo "Username: ". get_current_user () ." ( UiD: ". getmyuid() .", GiD: ". getmygid() ." )";"

This returns the user and group ID of the FTP user which owns all the files.

Despite this, and the FTP user having write permission to all the directories and files, Help->SystemInfo->DirectoryPermissions still shows the directories as 'unwriteable'.

If I change the permissions to allow 'other' write then they show as writeable.

I can upload files using the FTP user.

So is this Joomla mis-reading the permissions?

Or is there something in 1.5.14 that is changing the user/group Joomla is running under?

I have so far only run a stand alone diagnostic PHP script - I haven't attempted to change/add a PHP script inside Joomla.

Hi,

I am just looking at a new Joomla site and having permissions problems.

Looking in Help->SystenInfo->DirectoryPermissions everything is set as 'Unwriteable'.

Using the server's web based admin tool I can see that file owner is 'fred' (not his real name) and group membership is also 'fred'.

Given this, it doesn't really surprise me that Joomla_within_Apache can't write to these directories unless the 'all users' permissions are set to 'write'.

However this is insecure.

Should all the files have group membership of e.g. www-data (which is the group for Apache on my default LAMP install under Ubuntu) to allow group permissions to be used, or is there a configuration option which tells Apache/Joomla which user to run as when accessing the files system containing all the Joomla data and configuration files?

The only user ID and password I could find was for the 'ftp' access.

TIA

Dave R

Its been a few weeks since DMOZ scout visited. Do I need to resubmit/ping or something to ensure it stays on DMOZ and make the scout return to check for updates?

Ruth,

thanks for the clarification on the role of 'ftp' - this explains a lot about the configuration and the possible problems with the behaviour.

We are currently moving between hosts so hopefully this will not be a problem on the new host.

On the problem host, all the directory permissions were 'green' but we were having other permissions problems at the file level.

Noted that the 'ftp' layer is more likely to be required under Linux - this also seems to provide an extra level of security.

Cheers

David