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Published: 26 October 2008

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Here is some security tricks in order to improve security on Joomla CMS:

- put a .htaccess file in your “administrator” folder to protect all the files in the folder and subfolders allowing only your ips.

- move configuration.php to a safe directory outside of public_html and rename it whatever you want. We use the name joomla.conf in this example:

 

#mv configuration.php ../joomla.conf

 

Create a new configuration.php file containing only the following code:

 

<?php
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/../joomla.conf' );
?>

 

- change file permisions and attributes:

#chmod 644 configuration.php
#chattr +i configuration.php

- upgrade to the latest version of Joomla which also fixes additional vulnerabilitiesreported by third parties, however, upgrading only Joomla does not fix the whole problem.

- install the Suhosin PHP extension, which comes with a generic
protection against mt_(s)rnad vulnerabilities;

- install ModSecurity2, wich is crucial for having a layer of defense against hackers.

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Published: 25 October 2008

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This post is for all the guys that tried and tried and tried and still did not find how to change the google site description.
I have changed my site from HTML to Joomla and then found out that Google changed all my site description from my site subject to "Joomla! - the dynamic portal engine and content management system." and the name of my site was the name of my Joomla template.
So....
First the name of my site came from inside the HTML of my template in order to change it see extensions--> Template manager , Choose template and go in to edit HTML, Check that the H1 does not have an <alt> this was my first problem.

In the configuration file (mine is configuration.php) line :
/* Meta Settings */
var $MetaDesc = 'Joomla! - the dynamic portal engine and content management system';
var $MetaKeys = 'joomla, Joomla';

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