Hi: Thanks for the presentation. Is this setup applicable to only a single web site (non-ISP)? How would this be done for an ISP offering Joomla to numerous hosted websites on the server?

Also you gave the IUser account Write access to the temp or sessions directory. Is this safe for an ISP.

Thanks.

Hi Scuff,

I'm not sure I understand your scenario. This would apply if you have a Windows dedicated server (or VPS). If you have normal shared hosting, you would not have access to the Windows Desktop, so this wouldn't apply.

I hope I answered your question.

Best,
Michael

Ooops, I missed your second question. I'm really not sure how to answer that, as I'm not a security guru. However, IUSR NEEDS to be able to read and write session info otherwise it cannot use sessions.

Not sure if I am in the right forum for this post... sorry if it should be elsewhere.


Installed joomla 1.5rc4 as per your instructions...thank you for the great tutorial...struggle with the install until I watched it.

Found a couple of interesting things out....
When I was done and went to the admin control panel .. and made changes to the global configuration ...I was notified that the configuration.php was locked and not available for writing. I granted Internet Guest Account write permissions and it works... can you see a problem with doing so?

The next thing I did was attempt to install a component and was notified that it could not create the com_ and failed. So I made the entire website directory writeable for the Intternet Guest Account writeable...I have the default site as one thing (non Joomla) and the joomla site under a directory in IIS.

Can you see a problem with running Joomla under this configuration?

Lastly when I go to the Global Config ... no matter what change I make I get (2) "Delete Failed (a long alpha numeric code that changes each time)
The change goes through ... but the error is annoying. Thoughts?

Yeah, you will need to play with the permissions. I'll see if I can get together a comprehensive list of exactly what permission you will need.

I am looking forward to a comprehensive list of exact permissions as well. Thanks for all the hard work!

hi love the vid
just have one question when we got to the magic_quot bit i did all that an turned it on when we got to the next stage the was a warning stating that the magic_quote has been terned of for security now how do i turn it back on i went back to the php.ini an checked but it said it was on no i guess thats the reason why my site wont work also in the http://localhost section were you type you website in i dont have a registered domain name so i just left it as local is this ok
when i type in http://localhost it states im not authorrized to view this page
cheers
seaeagle

Hi seaeagle,

With respect to changes not taking place, make sure you restart your webserver after you have made changes to the php.ini file. With the page auth issue, are you using IIS or Apache?

thanks for the reply i am using iis on win server 2003
i have restarted the web server an every thing else i can think of see i reformatted my server yesterday so it was all from scratch so there was now errors even the php test page worked so i thought all was well
cheers
seaeagle

Hi Seaeagle,

The permissions gotchas in IIS are always not granting the correct permissions to the IUSR account. Remember you will need to go to Advanced when granting the permissions to apply to subdirectories.

hye thanks for the reply
i have checked all permissions an all was granted as i looked further into the root file i found a default file from the defaultwebsite an that file was written to show that you dont have permission so i got rid of that but haveing a page show up can find webpage would it be because the magic_quotes are turned off if so how can i fix this
under php.ini it still shows as on weird
cheers
seaeagle

hi all well the prob has been solved had a look at my php.ini file an found 2 magic_quote gpc files i turned the other on an it all worked
well thanks for the help guys
cheers
seaeagle

hi all
hey a quick question when i use to run joomla on my win xp machine with xaamp i was able to access my site via the network i had to change some things to be able to view the whole site like graphics text an so forth but now since i am running it via iis on the server i can only view the site via the local ip for the server but only see the text an no graphics not sure what to change here
any suggestions on how to fix this
cheers
seaeagle

Very cool... I was about to suggest that you start looking for duplicate installations and verify the location of your active PHP directory. Glad you got it

Thank you for your clear and concise tutorials. I have some questions about how this CMS functions, though. I see that you are installing Joomla directly into the root folder of the default Website. If I am using Joomla to create pages of a site, do those pages have to also live in the www root folder? Do they have to live elsewhere? Can they live elsewhere?

Maybe I just need to learn more about how Joomla works. Can you direct me to an overview of Joomla's functionality? Say my installation is successful. Where do I go from here?

Thanks, WCW