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Here you will find a simple guide that lets you move your configuration.php out of you publc_html folder. All script kiddies and hackers are looking for common Joomla directory structure. They assume that your configuration file is located where default Joomla installation puts it.Moving this file will make harder to be found and that means that one of the most important php files of your Joomla website will be more secure than before. Keep in mind that if you use this tip you must make any future configuration changes from the php file itself and not from Joomla admin interface.
Follow the steps below and keep you Joomla website secure: 1) Backup your configuration.php 2) FTP to your Joomla Website 3) Create a directory where you will put your configuration.php, we called it 'hideme' 4) Select and move configuration.php thats located under public_html directory to the 'hideme' directory. 5) Rename it as you want, we renamed it as 'con.php' 6) Create a new blank configuration.php and open it with an editor or notepad Put there the following code(in red):
<?php
Where you see xxxxxx you must put the path that you see next to $mosConfig_absolute_path at your original configuration.php 6) Save it and upload it to public_html directory 7) Last but not least in order to achieve maximum security you should change your new configurations php(con.php in our example) privileges to 444.
Refresh yor website and see if everything works fine. You re done!!! |







