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Joomla Security Tips - 001

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Joomla Security Tips - 001 Like the homey Bob Marley said "Collective security for surety". The "how secure is Joomla?" question is about as common as ASL was in those dumbass AOL chat channels. Put it this way, it was, and still is, developed by a group of humans, and since humans are animals, most likely there are probably still a few lines of animalistic code in there. That's just about how it is for every piece of software developed by humans. So until we get to the point of outsourcing aliens, what should you do about Joomla security?

Register in the Joomla Community Forum at http://forum.joomla.org Subscribe to the Security Announcements forum http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,372.0.html Subscribe to the "Security" sections for your corresponding Joomla version: Security for Joomla 1.0 (http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,267.0.html) , and Security for Joomla 1.5 (http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,432.0.html ) Set your forum profile to receive notifications with new posts are made to these forums (http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,192791.0.html) We know how much you hate reading so lets cut it short for now. In a later piece we will provide more general tips with regards to extensions/add-ons. Don't take this whole security thing lightly homes. Next thing you know someone has an amateur pr0n clip on your front page, and you're sitting back like a idoit wondering how and why.

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My Robot.txt and .htaccess with Joomla 1.5.3

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I have been asked twice now to show my own robot.txt and .htaccess file... I accidentally overwrote my 1.5.3 file so if you really need this contact me, I'll get it back online just for you. (Please see the 1.5.4 version)

Just be sure to rename the files and the contents, and if it brakes your site bitch to your host and not me, and if I am your host then you did something wrong.

Joomla 1.5.5 SEF Upgraded

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SEF core Upgraded in Joomla 1.5.5
Many agree, one of the most important features of Joomla! 1.5 is improved SEF URLs. A number of bugs with SEF Content URLs were fixed in this release, including issues related to Section List links, Breadcrumbs, Article Archives, Page Titles, and Article links in various Modules. A goal for the Joomla! 1.5.5 release was to correct those errors. In addition to the bug fixes, an improvement to Category Blog SEF URLs is now available in Joomla! 1.5.5.

Prior to Joomla! 1.5.5, Category Blog Article SEF URLs followed this pattern: http://example.com/menu-item-alias/nn-category-alias/nn-article-alias.html

With Joomla! 1.5.5, the URL no longer includes the nn-category-alias node, as this pattern shows: http://example.com/menu-item-alias/nn-article-alias.html

Existing Joomla! 1.5 Web sites should experience no problem due to this SEF URL enhancement. The Joomla! Bug Squad tested to ensure existing SEF URLs for Category Blog Articles continue to navigate to the correct page. No problems were discovered during this testing.

To help ensure all SEF URL fixes produced intended results, the Bug Squad introduced automated testing for SEF URLs. While this initial testing is far from exhaustive, it has proven to be valuable. Expanded automated URL testing will be an integral part of ensuring SEF URLs continue to provide consistent results for future releases.

The Bug Squad would like to thank Louis Landry for developing the SEF URL Content patch. With these fixes, many errors on the Joomla! 1.5 Tracker were corrected and the SEF URLs for Content are now working, as intended.

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Show/Hide comments so does this mean there is nolonger a need for SEF components or what?
written by debugger, August 03, 2008
this is probably a stupid question for all you joomla experts out there but honestly i want to know whether this feature does mean that there is no need for 3rd party SEF components for joomla. im a newbie so pliz be patient with me. report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +1
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Robot.txt Sitemap 001

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Your sitemap automatically discovered by configuring it in your Robots.txt file.

It is simple and easy to do, you’ll just need to know the URL or web address of your sitemap.

First, open your Robots.txt file on your server for editing. Then you will need to add the following line to the end of the file (it can be anywhere, but the end is probably a good place).

Sitemap: http://www..com/sitemap.xml
Save the Robots.txt file with the new line for the sitemap URL. There you go! Your whole file may look something like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /somefolder/
Disallow: /somethingelse/
Sitemap: http://www.joomlamafia.com/sitemap.xml
Search engines already come to your Robots.txt file when they visit your domain, so on their next crawl they will automatically find your sitemap file.

If you have a new site/domain you will probably still want to submit the sitemap URL to the search engines. To submit you can either submit the URL through their interfaces or use a ping.

Submit Sitemap to Google or Ping Google with your Sitemap
Submit Sitemap to Yahoo or Ping Yahoo with your Sitemap
Submit Sitemap to MSN Live.com
Info for Ask.com Sitemaps or Ping Ask.com by hitting this address: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.joomlamafia.com/sitemap.xml

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Better Alexa Rankings

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Better Alexa Rankings
Download the Alexa ranking button, traffic history graph, info links, and other traffic counters onto the page of your website that receives the most traffic. For example, at the right of my page JoomlaMafia.com, I’ve added the Alexa ranking box. You can do the same for your own site by visiting http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup You’ll notice that I haven’t added the traffic history graph. This is because it wouldn’t look appropriate on my home page and because Alexa is only providing detailed history on the top 100,000 sites. So if you’re not in the top 100,000, site stats would not be available.

Take an inexpensive advertisement out on the iWebTool

Take an inexpensive advertisement out on the ExactSeek search directory for only a few dollars per month at ExactSeek.com Search engine results are directly correlated with Alexa rankings. You’ll notice that if a website is highly ranked on ExactSeek, chances are that it will be highly ranked on Alexa. (NOTE: Please only do this one if money isn't tight as things may have recently changed)

Get listed on as many search engines as possible by placing a free listing in DMOZ. This is the largest human edited directory on the web and is co-branded among hundreds of thousands of sites. Be patient though, it often takes up to 5 months before you see your website listed after submission. Even though it takes longer than it should, you have little say in the matter because it’s so widely used across the Internet.

These simple Alexa strategies are easy to implement and will make a huge difference in your Alexa ranking. Ultimately you want visitors to do more than visit your home page, you want them to interact with your site. Be sure to optimize your home page for SEO purposes, ease of use, and interaction. Creating a positive user experience will get visitors to return again and again.

For more information on SEF/SEO and building corporate credit check out my site other site http://www.mmmkay.info

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