Monthly Archives: February 2011

Social Media: How to handle Negative, Rude or Deceitful Comments

Posted on February 23, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

How does one handle negative comments or outright lies being posted on social platforms across the web? This is becoming a greater and greater concern and the root problem is that social media cannot truly be “controlled”. The best defense … Continue reading →

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No horizontal scroll-bar at the bottom of the page

Posted on February 22, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

Solution: In style-sheet > change: overflow: hidden; to overflow: visible; #art-main { position: relative; /*overflow: hidden;*/ overflow: visible; z-index: 1; width: 100%; left: 0; top: 0; cursor:default; }

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Joomfish – 500 – No valid database connection:

Posted on February 21, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

When editing article in the front end I sometimes get a “500 – No valid database connection:” error. 1. Backup site using akeeba backup 2. Joomla backend > Global Configuration > Server > Database settings (right colomn) > Change the … Continue reading →

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Change Collation from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_general_ci using Akeeba backup

Posted on February 17, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

An easy way to change the collation if you are cloning your website to another server using Akeeba backup is to use the setting > Fine settings > Force Utf8

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Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in \tool_phoca_changing_collation\index.php on line 91

Posted on February 17, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

If you are using the the phoca collation tool OR get Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded errors when running scripts do the following: Try these different settings in C:\wamp\bin\apache\apachex.x.x\bin\php.ini Find: post_max_size = 8M upload_max_filesize = 2M … Continue reading →

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Change mysql database collation from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_general_ci

Posted on February 17, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

If you created your site in with a specific collation language and need to change it  you can use this great tool to change all the fields: Download Phoca Changing Collation Tool Unzip the zip file and copy the folder … Continue reading →

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SH404SEF – Joomfish: Secondary Language homepage link does not translate

Posted on February 16, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

If you have a problem with Joomfish, where you click on the language picker to choose the secondary language (Not default language) and the pages translate, but when you click on the homepage menu link and the page reverts to … Continue reading →

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How can I change my MySQL database collation?

Posted on February 16, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

Usually when you are using foreign characters or multilingual sites (Joomfish for Joomla) you should change your MySQL collation in order to solve problems with encodings. The most common case is to change your MySQL collation from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_general_ci. … Continue reading →

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Enable mod_rewrite in windows, WAMP, XAMPP

Posted on February 16, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

Wamp and XAMPP doesn’t come with default rewrite rule enabled, For enabling the rewrite rules in both of them you need to make changes in httpd.conf so that apache can work with rewrite rules. For enabling the rewrite rules follow … Continue reading →

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joomla remove title from homepage

Posted on February 11, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

To remove the title from being displayed on the front page of your joomla site, you need to change a parameter setting in the front page component. 1. Log into backend > Menus > Main Menu > Home (one with … Continue reading →

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