Joomla

The Cybersalt Site runs on the opensource software, Joomla!

This area features articles on Cybersalt's Joomla! journey.

Canonical Urls in sh404sef

By: Pastor Tim

I use the Joomla! component sh404SEF on the Cybersalt site. It's great for giving my pages SEF (Search Engine Friendly) URLs. Unfortunately, sh404SEF does not include something very helpful to make the urls even more SEF friendly - canonical url specification. But it will with a little tweaking!

Migrating from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 to 1.7

By: Pastor Tim

I just helped a friend today who has two customers still running sites on Joomla 1.0. He is upgrading his servers to run mysql5.x and the Joomla 1.0 installs were not displaying any content. This meant it was time to migrate (it was well past that time actually).

I had him send me an sql dump of the databases and then I imported (one at a time) each dump into a database called "client10". I then did two very quick, and basic installs of Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.7.0, each using databases named "client15" and "client17" respectively.

Interpreting Old Non-SEF Joomla URLs

By: Pastor Tim

Using sh404SEF to interpret old non-sef Joomla urls I've just solved another little problem that arose from migrating my the Cybersalt Site from Joomla 1.5 to 1.6 and beyond.

In the wonderful sh404SEF add-on component, there is an area where urls generating 404 errors are listed along with tools to redirect them to their new SEF url. When you click on the url generating the 404, you are supplied with sh404SEF's best guess(es) as to what the redirect should be.