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Joomla Problems

I could not log in to Joomla after installing with Fantistico (also found same problem after installing Joomla manually). The fix: create an .htaccess file in the Joomla root directory with the following content:

php_value session.save_path "/home/myusername/joomla/sessions"

Make sure /home/myusername/joomla/sessions is chmod 0777

Note: this entry was updated from the original in order to change the session path. Putting session info into /tmp is dangerous, as /tmp is cleared out periodically and session info can just disappear. A custom session dir for each of your applications is recommended.

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This script should set ownership and permissions properly on your Joomla subdirectories. Make a file in your Joomla root dir called perms_fix.sh with these contents:

#!/bin/bash

# Based on http://www.netadmintools.com/art560.html
#
# A2 Hosting Apache is 'nobody' instead of 'apache'
# Uncomment mambots lines if you have the mambots subdirectory

chgrp nobody administrator/backups
chgrp nobody administrator/components
chgrp nobody administrator/modules   
chgrp nobody administrator/templates
chgrp nobody cache                  
chgrp nobody components
chgrp nobody images     
chgrp nobody images/banners 
chgrp nobody images/stories
chgrp nobody language
#chgrp nobody mambots 
#chgrp nobody mambots/content
#chgrp nobody mambots/editors
#chgrp nobody mambots/editors-xtd
#chgrp nobody mambots/search     
#chgrp nobody mambots/system
chgrp nobody media         
chgrp nobody modules
chgrp nobody templates

chmod g+w administrator/backups
chmod g+w administrator/components
chmod g+w administrator/modules
chmod g+w administrator/templates
chmod g+w cache                  
chmod g+w components
chmod g+w images    
chmod g+w images/banners
chmod g+w images/stories
chmod g+w language      
chmod g+w mambots 
#chmod g+w mambots/content
#chmod g+w mambots/editors
#chmod g+w mambots/editors-xtd
#chmod g+w mambots/search     
#chmod g+w mambots/system
chmod g+w media         
chmod g+w modules
chmod g+w templates

Then do

sh ./perms_fix.sh
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'''A file manager/editor that will work through Joomla:'''

This should help to avoid permissions problems, or files that are owned by user 'nobody' and can't be edited by your user:

[http://www.joomlahacks.com/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,41/func,fileinfo/id,275/ JoomlaXplorer]

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We had high hopes for Joomla as a CMS and used it to design a couple of websites.  We were disappointed actually, and ended up trying out WordPress instead, which tended to fulfill our needs a bit better.  Joomla appears to have a lot of features, but somehow it didn't work out to be an efficient way of getting the job done.

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