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How to upgrade from Joomla 1.5.22 to 1.5.25 PDF Print E-mail
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Joomla 1.5.x has reach end of life long time ago but that doesn't mean its not used by thousands of websites around the world.
My experience tells that many of those websites are using buggy Joomla 1.5.xx versions making them vulnerable to attacks and exploits. Thats is why I 've decided to gather all the latest upgrade packages* from Joomla 1.5.22 to 1.5.25 and post them here in order to make them accessible by everybody.
Another serious reason to upgrade into the latest version of Joomla 1.5.25 is making migration task from 1.5.xx to 1.6.x a lot easier, that said I urge you to download and upload each package, once at a time, in order to upgrade your Joomla website into the latest 1.5.xx version of 1.5.25.


Upgrade Instructions:

  1. Backup your Joomla website and db.
  2. Download each upgrade package starting from 1.5.22 to 1.5.23
  3. Extract zip file on your pc.
  4. Upload all files using an ftp client such us Filezilla.

    Follow this procedure for each upgrade package until you reach the last one, when finished log into back end and make sure that latest version is referred in up right position of your tab.

* If you visit Joomla's official repository page then you won't be able to find those upgrade packages unless you run a specific query about them individually.

 
Joomla Hosting Requirements PDF Print E-mail
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Joomla Hosting requirementsHosting a Joomla website is not the hardest to do IF you find the right web hosting company to work with.
Many of us are looking for the cheapest hosting solution in order to save money but we shouldn't forget how much money and time will be lost if the only advantage of the hosting company we choose is just being cheap.

Server downtime and incompatibility with Joomla CMS are the top 2 reasons dropping our hosting provider and looking for a another one more reliable and joomla friendly.

Moving websites from one hosting provider to another is not the easiest thing to do, no matter if you are a Joomla Pro that develops Joomla websites for his clients or just a webmaster.

Search engines and visitors hate downtimes and dns changes in a short period time so be careful and judge your future hosting provider not only by his price but also by his Joomla friendly hosting features.

To help you out I m going to post server features that can classify them as Joomla friendly for both Joomla 1.6.x/1.7.x and Joomla 1.5.x versions.

Joomla 1.6.x and 1.7.x server requirements:

PHP
- Recommended: 5.3+
- Minimum: 5.2.4+

MySQL
- Recommended: 5.0.4+
- Minimum: 5.0.4+

Apache(mod_mysql, mod_xml,and mod_zlib installed)
- Recommended: 2.x+
- Minimum: 2.x+

 

Joomla 1.5.x server requirements:

PHP
- Recommended: 5.2+
- Minimum: 4.3.10

MySQL
- Recommended: 4.1.x+
- Minimum: 3.23

Apache(mod_mysql, mod_xml,and mod_zlib installed)
- Recommended: 2.x+
- Minimum: 1.3

 

I ve already built my own list of Joomla Hosting providers that can host your joomla websites, check it out and bookmark it because I m going to post more of them as soon as possible.

 
Joomla Friendly Hosting PDF Print E-mail
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joomla_friendly_hostingJoomla websites in order to work as expected need to be hosted on Joomla friendly hosting servers. Even though Joomla can be installed in most of the available hosting solutions, only few of them are have a joomla friendly environment that will help you build your Joomla website without any problems.

Joomla friendly hosting server is one of the most serious decisions you may have to take before publishing your website on the web. Below we are going to list some of the requirements a hosting server should have in order to be tagged as "Joomla Friendly Hosting". Joomla is build mostly for Linux hosting servers so the following requirements refer to that specific hosting solution.

Currently we have tested and approved the above hosting solutions as Joomla Friendly:

- on!SPOT

onspot

- HostGator

Requirements for tagging a hosting server as "Joomla Friendly":

- PHP Version: 5.2+ (Minimum 4.3.10).

- MySQL Version: 4.1.x+ (3.23).

- Apache Version: 2.x+ (1.3).

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