Category Archives: Joomla

Here you will find some information that I found usefull with my Joomla sites

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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JCE: Advanced Link – change root directory for images and documents

Posted on February 10, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

Change the root directory for images and documents when you click on the advanced links tab. Change the ‘File Directory Path’ in Components->JCE Administration->JCE Group Manager > Default > Edit Paramaters > File Directory Path = images/change_this

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JCE editor | TinyMCE – fsockopen()…ssl.google.com:443 error

Posted on February 8, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

If you get the following error when trying to do a spell check in Joomla article and you are using wamp server. +++ Error response: <br /> <b>Warning</b>: fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: unable to connect to ssl://www.google.com:443 (Unable to find the … Continue reading →

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wamp phpmyadmin 3.2.0.1 config.inc.php files

Posted on February 8, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

This is the orignal file for phpmyadmin 3.2.0.1 just in case you need it. After the +++ and before the +++ ++++ <?php /* Servers configuration */ $i = 0; /* Server: localhost [1] */ $i++; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = ‘localhost’; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] … Continue reading →

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sh404sef joomfish homepage not translating back to english

Posted on February 3, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

After installing sh404sef on a site using joomfish for dual language website the homepage would not change back to english when I clicked on the translation flag. I fixed this by editing the sh404 sef urls: Go to Components > … Continue reading →

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Joomla multilingual search error: Warning: sprintf() [function.sprintf]:

Posted on February 3, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

If you get this error when doing a multligual search: Warning: sprintf() [function.sprintf]: Too few arguments in /home/itech/public_html/libraries/joomla/methods.php on line 138 Edit the language page: en-YOUR_LANGUAGE.com_search.ini. Remove one of the”%s” characters and Save the file. TOTALRESULTSFOUND=Cafwyd %s o ganlyniadau. Chwilio … Continue reading →

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IE 7 and IE 8 White Flash / Page reload

Posted on February 2, 2011 by ewanvrooyen

white flash in ie, ie7, ie8 Continue reading →

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