Remove 'Welcome to the Frontpage' title in Joomla! 1.5

How to remove 'Welcome to the Frontpage' title in Joomla! 1.5
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If you install new Joomla! 1.5 on your server, you get the 'Welcome to the Frontpage' title on your Frontpage. Sometimes, it is difficult to find, where you can change this title.

Go to your Joomla! 1.5 Administration site and login. In your administration site go to:

Menus - Main Menu (now you are in: Menu Item Manager: mainmenu).
Click on 'Home' link to edit this link (you are now in: Menu Item: Edit).
Click on Parameters System and change or delete the Page title.
If you change the Page title, changed title will be displayed on your Frontpage as a title.
If you delete the Page title, Menu link will be displayed on your Frontpage as a title (in the present case 'Home' will be displayed as title, because 'Home' is the name of the link to the Frontpage).
If you don't want to display any title, set Show Page Title below Page title parameter to 'No'.
Don't forget to save changes.

Mysql directories and move info

It is no fun when a linux shared hosting server crashes. You have to move the web files, email, and any mysql databases the users websites are running on, not to mention DNS info. So get some mountain dew and lets get started:

Mysql important directories:
The databases are all here: /var/lib/mysql

Grep for the mysql username and password in:
Joomla - configuration.php
Drupal - settings

Directadmin info is here: /usr/local/directadmin

Modify Joomla footer Part 2

To modify the joomla footer in a template, it is overridden in the template directory (Joomla 1.5, the mod_footer module).

/home/plinkgolf/domains/powerlinksgolf.com/public_html/templates/ja_helio/html/mod_footer/

is where the files are located.

Joomla CSS Submenu location -ja templates

When changing the dropdown or submenu colors or styles, use the css in the ja_menus folder.

Joomla Permissions for installations

If you have SSH, Shell access the following commands should be able to be run from the command line to reset all your files and directories back to the server defaults of 755 and 644.

Change directory in to the top directory (" / ") of your Joomla! installation, then run these;

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

If you only have FTP access, this can be a very time consuming job, however, unless you changed more directories during the installation that was requested, you should only need to reset about 10 directories and the configuration.php file.

Keep in mind that to install any extensions or templates after the actual Joomla! installation you may need to elevate the default permissions again on the appropriate directories just for the installation period, you may then demote them again after the add-on is installed.

If you decide to use "cache" the cache directory will need to be "Writable" to the Web-Server user to allow it to write its temporary files.

Once you have completed the installation, next thing to do is read Ron Liskey's "Joomla! Admins Security Checklist". I am sure you will find much of the security information that you will need in this post and the Security Forum.

Joomla! Admins Security Checklist
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,81058.0.html

Good Linux find command and Joomla Footer

Here is the linux command I used and the file location in joomla to edit the footer:

From the public_html folder of the domain:

find ./ -type f -exec grep -H copyright '{}' +

 

The footer file you can edit to change the Joomla 1.5 standard footer is here:

/home/aheumann/domains/theheumannmarketreview.com/public_html/language/en-GB/en-GB.mod_footer.ini