How to Enable SEF URLs in Joomla ?

With the following procedure, you should be able to enable the Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs functionality for your Joomla website. Upon making the relevant settings, the website’s URL’s would seem more logical to human readers, apart from that, there are chances that your site would be ranked well in the search engine result pages (SERP).

Inorder to Turn ON the SEF functionality for your Joomla website, please refer the following steps :

I) You must first and foremost Enable mod_rewrite. This is important when it comes to the rewriting rules. Also, it is advisable to rename the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess, located in your Joomla installation directory .

II) Now inorder to Turn On this functionality you must go to Site >> Global configuration in the administrator panel.

III) Within the SEO Settings >> Search Engine Friendly URLs >> Apache mod_rewrite >> Yes >> Save

This will change the link to a more logical and readable structure.

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How to reset my Joomla administrator password?

Similar to WordPress Hosting, there is a provision of lost password retrieval functionality, you can find that on the login page where it says “forgot password”. This procedure is much simpler than the following. If you happen to have forgotten the email address that you had used at the time of Joomla installation, you can change the Email address from the cPanel PhPMyAdmin to a convenient one and retrieve your password by mailing it to yourself.

Alternate Method to Reset Joomla Super Admin Password

Before you proceed any further with resetting your Joomla Admin password, it is necessary for you to check whether you have an access to your Joomla website’s database. If not, then you must forward the following procedure to anybody who has it. Before you go about making any changes to the Joomla database, we would suggest you to take a backup and store it at a safe location (maybe on your local machine), this would help you avoid any future hassles incase things goes wrong somewhere.

Primary Steps -

The password is stored in the MySQL database jos_users table password field

Step 1 : You must log-in and look for your Joomla websites database. You can do that via. PhpMyAdmin. (Note : Incase you multiple website databases on the server, you should look for the one whose password you wish to reset)

Step 2 : Once in, you must look for the option that allows you to edit the jos_users table. It is usually preceded by your account name.

Step 3 : You must Edit the entry username = “Administrator”

Steps to Reset Joomla Admin password:

In the box against the password field, you should find some alphanumeric characters. The Joomla CMS makes use of one way encoding methodology, what it does is, it restricts users from retrieving the existing password. Its only possible to reset it using the MySQL’s in-built MD5 functionality:

UPDATE `jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( ‘new password’ ) WHERE `jos_users`.`username` = “Administrator”;

On doing this, you can easily reset your password. Now, you can try to login to your Joomla website using the new admin details.

If none of the above steps work out well, you should contact our technical support department who would help you reset the password in no time.

Help yourself  Backup your Joomla Website !!

If you have a website, you should be aware about the importance of maintaining a backup of your own. However, if you aren’t aware of how to take back up of your Joomla website, then the following procedure should help you taking backup using cPanel web hosting control panel.

• Login to the cpanel control panel of the website which you intend backup
• Use the appropriate user-name and password.
• Look for the ‘phpMyAdmin‘ tool within the control panel. You can even search this tool using the search box.
• Once you find it and click on it and look for the ‘Export‘ option present in the menu.
• Clicking the link would take you to ‘Settings’. Confirm the settings in the export box and click it for selecting the relevant database name. Now, look for the radio button to SQL.
• Check the settings in the save as box and click ‘Save as‘. Then select the Zip option.
• Select GO.
• Within no time, you would see a dialog box asking you for a confirmation of the intended storage location on your local machine.
• Here, you must select the location where you wish to save the database backup.
• The time taken for saving the file would depend on the size of your website data. Once the download process is complete, you must verify the size of the file.
• Now, you must backup the public_html folder of your Joomla site via. the file manager tool present in the cpanel.
• Select the file manager option.
• Look for the public_html folder.
• You must check all the boxes seen in the presented list.
• Now select the compress option.
• Once the files get compressed, you should be able to view a new file along with the other files.
• You need to choose that particular file and hit the download option.
• Again you would be asked for the location where you intend to save this file. It is recommended to save the file in the same location where you have saved the database.

This concludes the steps for backing-up your Joomla Website.

Joomla Hosting has been a popular alternative to WordPress Hosting, hence it becomes important for users owning a Joomla site to keep themselves aware about the methods of Back-up and Restoration of their sites.

Joomla Website Hosting

Q. Do you offer Joomla Web Hosting?

Ans.Yes, Joomla is supported on all our web hosting plans.  All our Linux web hosting and windows hosting plans support Joomla as it is PHP MySQl based. PHP and MySQL is pre installed on all our servers. We are proud to host many Joomla websites and we have gained expertise in managing Joomla websites.  Everything you need for a Joomla website is included on our website  hosting packages including fast and servers , multiple resources and moreover 24×7 support via phone,email and live chat service.

Joomla installation and setup is easier on our cPanel hosting packages. You can install Joomla and other open source applications at one click through Fantastico. Our cPanel hosting package is highly recommended for a Joomla website.

Joomla Installation and folder permissions

We have no problem with files and folders with nobody ownership or 777 permissions, as security rules implemented on our server will not allow anyone to upload anything that would create problems for server.

If you ever face any sort of problem with your Joomla installation then you may contact our support staff directly from http://support.eukhost.com or you can start a new thread in our forum http://www.eukhost.com/forums/ as we have hundreds of webmasters on our forum active throughout the day and they have expertise in Joomla website management.

eUKhost is most trusted company in UK for Joomla Hosting due to the high level security on our servers. Joomla websites face constant intrusion and hacking attempts with other hosting companies due to poor security settings on the server and insecure code of Joomla CMS. Most of the times injections are done on the files and folders with 777 permission as this permission makes them world writable, but this is not possible on our servers as mod_security rules on our servers filter such invalid arguments passed by the intruders.

Q. Does Fantastico allow auto upgrades to my existing joomla installation?

Ans. Fantastico stores installation data inside your account (below public_html). You will need to ensure that you make proper package of your account before uploading that on our servers. You can also get the account transfer done from our staff as we can get this done quickly and you won’t loose any data from your account we would take care of your data transfer.

Mostly Webmasters prefer to upgrade Joomla manually as upgrade from Fantastico overrides custom styles and navigation so you need to make sure that you take a full backup of your Joomla installation before upgrading from Fantastico.