Questions tagged [server]
for questions about server related issues like server settings and recommendations
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Compress & Optimise Existing Images
Joomla 3.9.21
I am working on a site that is very image heavy, most images are within the EasyBlog component and amount to approximately 8GB, the original administrators didn't optimise the images for ...
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How to install Joomla on Digital Ocean (Debian 9)?
I am a new user to Digital Ocean and I need to install Joomla to develop a small newspaper portal.
I chose Debian 9, but I don’t know how to accomplish this task.
I’ve researched here in the ...
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Unable to deploy updateserver for site module
Joomla! does not recognize my module update, so I decided to create a blank module to see if it suffered the same issue -- it did.
When I search for updates my mod_extension is not visible in the ...
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Click to upload an image "The server returned an invalid JSON response." [closed]
When I go into an article, and then click to upload an image I receive the error:
The server returned an invalid JSON response.
I actually receive the error twice in a row if that helps. Can ...
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Occasional 403 errors when saving articles
I have a strange error in Joomla backend. I get a forbidden error when trying to save article from certain custom component in Joomla it doesn't happen for all articles which baffles me a lot.
I get ...
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Impossible to set my joomla site timezone to Pacific/Tahiti (hosted in UTC)
I have exactely the same issue like in this post.
For a Joomla site online booking (Joomla + Yootheme + Vik Appointment) I need Pacific/Tahiti default timezone and I still have UTC despite all my ...
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CSS Change won't apply - Where could the cache be?
I've encountered a strange problem that I've never seen before.
I edited a CSS file and uploaded it to my server. From my hosting's file manager, I can see the file is updated. But in my local ...
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How to remove Content older than a specific date with 410 status code
so I have a Joomla Website with a lot of content (10k+ items acumulated over the last 10 years).
I want to remove the Content of the first 5 Years because it costs a lot of Crawler Budget for Google. ...
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Database Error At Busy Times
My Joomla 3.6 website up time is pretty good, however at times of high traffic, my site shows a white page with the following text;
Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error:
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The MySQL adapter mysqli is not available - how to resolve this issue?
My website www.EliteMaths.com.au has been active until early this week. When I tried to access it this morning I got the following error message:
Error displaying the error page: Application ...
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1answer
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htaccess mysteries: Can Joomla site run without .htaccess?
I was trying to understand .htaccess file. I learned some directives and added them on my htaccess.txt file but things weren't going as I expected. To test whether I put the contents on right file, I ...
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JFolder::create: Path not in open_basedir paths - Unable to create destination
I have been having a few problems installing an application called DB Replacer. I keep on getting the error “JFolder::create: Path not in open_basedir paths Unable to create destination”
It was ...
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URL rewriting for a joomla website placed into a folder into the root public_html folder
I have my Joomla site placed into a subfolder of the root public_html folder. I have activated the url rewriting Global Option in the Joomla Admin Panel. I access to the website through the http://web....
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1answer
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Use of $_SERVER variables in custom plugin
In my Joomla application, I have functionality where I use server variables, like request_uri and query parameters for parsing url string.
This function is used in many modules. So, I wanted to ...
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2answers
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403 Forbidden Access, when accessing custom html/php files directly
I am trying to open html and php pages directly, but it shows :
403
Forbidden
Access to this resource on the server is denied!
When I try www.mysite.com/dir/ index page shows up, error ...
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1answer
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Random 403 Errors
I have a joomla site installed in a subdomain and have moved it to another folder within the same subdomain. However, I am getting random 403 errors (not able to reproduce yet) and I seem to see it if ...
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Joomla Media Manager Not working - Server error 500
Good evening,
Can anyone shed some light on this issue? I had to restore our website from a Backup, once finished the MEDIA MANAGER and some images stopped working. Server Error 500 shows up : (
I ...
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Stopping a redirect in .htaccess
This is a real novice question regarding .htaccess files. I have read up on it but I really have no clue.
We have a site called originalsite.com.au that is redirecting to www.examplesite.org.au (see ...
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Joomla random lack of access permission
When my user tries to edit an article in frontend, he gets "403 - you don't have permission to access(#some id of article)" and when he goes back in browser and tries again usually he can get access - ...
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Joomla 3.4.8 webite not loading after trying to update Smart Slider
We are running Joomla 3.4.8 on Windows Server 2012. After an update to update Smart Slider was tried, the whole site went blank.
How to restore a Joomla site if an extension update like Smart Slider ...
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1answer
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404 - Article not found when calling not Joomla php file
I have a 3.4 Joomla site which works fine, the problem is I created a new directory to store some php scripts to run, but running them fails with the 404 error above.
Joomla runs on the root folder, ...
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3answers
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How can I redirect old domain to a new domain?
I am newbie on Joomla. I have bought a new domain for my site that I want to use and have my site running on two different server under the 2 domain accordingly.
I need to redirect the old domain and ...
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Access Errors After Changing Addon Domain Directory Root to Joomla! Folder
First: I would consider myself an advanced beginner in terms of administration. I know enough to be dangerous to myself and my projects :)
I have an addon website hosted at HostGator. The HostGator ...
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3answers
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Which hosting is best for jomsocial website? [closed]
I am about to launch a JomSocial website on Joomla for my university project.. there will be 30000 users per second.
Is joomla capable to handle this much traffic and load?
Which will be the best ...
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After updating content some computers see new version but some old at the same time
I don't know why. Different browsers, computers and internet providers - some show current version of text on my page and some show old content. Site is dreamvisa.by. Version of Joomla is 2.5.27. We ...
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Landing pages management
I have a dedicated share Ip with multiple cpanels, and multiple domain names.
Where I work we have about 20 different products that we promote in different landing pages, currently each landing page ...
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Joomla Email virus
Hello everyone I have Joomla system under DA management.
For awhile now I'm receiving into my DA message system alerts that PHP is sending too much emails.
This is the message I'm receiving from ...
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Url friendly .htaccess and Joomla 3.4
I have problems with the url, are duplicating to google
http://www.villadelia.es/blog-de-bodas/sofia-y-ruben-una-boda-con-mucha-poesia
delete "blog-de-bodas"
http://www.villadelia.es/sofia-y-ruben-...
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Http access threads going to incorrect Joomla directory [closed]
I've been looking at some httpd threads with strace and noticed a ton of locations that are incorrect:
access("/var/www/html/libraries/cms/database/database.php", F_OK) = -1
ENOENT (No such file ...
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How can Joomla be put in Continuous Deployment?
It seems somewhat wasteful to zip the PHP files and then unzip at the target.
Is there a way to do this through composer, or some sort of web or CLI install procedure?
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Use Joomla redirect component to fix broken URLs
Can anyone help with using J3 redirect component to fix this kind of broken links:
https://www.portal-gestao.com/whatever/whatever/9999-title-of-the-page
To:
https://www.portal-gestao.com/item/9999-...
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3answers
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How to hide robots.txt from users?
As robots.txt can be found:
site.com/robots.txt
everyone can see it, including also bad thinking persons.
How can I hide the robots.txt from everyone except the search-bots?
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Rewriting .htaccess into apache config
I have got myself a vserver.
I just thought off rewriting the context of the .htaccess (RewriteRules etc.) into
my /etc/apache2/sites-availabe/domain.conf .
Does this work?
Or does the .htaccess ...
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1answer
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Cannot access a web site via https using a mobile device (Windows and Android)
Since this morning, I cannot reach my server webpage using any mobile device, have no problem accessing via PC.
htaccess force https
the certificate is SHA1 valid until 2015
SSL disabled and TLS ...
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How to move my site from subfolder to root?
I have a joomla site and it is installed in a subfolder in my hosting account.
So now if I want to access my site I have to type www.mysite.com/joomla. I want to be able to access my site's homepage ...
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My joomla 3.x website went down and I can't re-run it
Hello I have joomla website running lastest vesion 3.3.6 I think. But today suddenly while posting new articles the website got offline. When I try to open the website only blank page is shown, the ...
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What server side caching can be used with Joomla 2.5.x?
I'm currently looking at different server caching options for Joomla. I'm not ready to upgrade to Joomla 3.x yet, so I'm just looking at options for 2.5.x
Redis was looking good, but based on the ...
