Category: Joomla

Sometimes you may want to uninstall Joomla from the server for one of the following reasons:

• You want to move the Joomla website to another server and you want to use the current host to delete all information related to the website.
• There was a problem with your initial installation and you want to redo everything from the beginning.
• You just want to get rid of your Joomla website!

Unlike installation, there is no such method to uninstall the Joomla directly from the server. Uninstall of Joomla is done manually. For this, you need to delete all the Joomla files and drop the MySQL database that has been created during installation.

• Well, the process is very simple, here is what you can do:
• Log in to the FTP of your website and delete all Joomla folders and files.
• Make sure you do not delete folders that do not belong to your Joomla website.
• If you have installed a lot of extensions and/or a lot of images/files on your website, this process may take a long time.
• Go to phpMyAdmin and delete the database containing the data of the Joomla website.
• Make sure not to delete shared databases (databases shared by different websites, the only difference is the table prefix). Go to the “Cron Jobs” page (or Cron Manager) in cPanel and delete all cron associated with the Joomla website.

Generally, it takes a lot of time to delete the files through FTP, so its recommended to remove data through host manager (ex: Cpanel, Plesk).

How to uninstall Joomla from cPanel?

If you have installed the Joomla through any of the Joomla website using Softaculous an auto-installer in cPanel, then you can uninstall the Joomla in a single click. Softaculous is a commercial script library that automatically installs commercial and open source web applications onto websites. Most of the hosting provides like Godaddy, Siteground and Hostgator provides cPanel with Softaculous in it.
If you need help uninstalling the Joomla website, or if you think the process is daunting, then we will help you. Please contact us and we will serve you.

Summary

If you are afraid to perform this process, please don’t do it and seek help from a Joomla professional.
Remember, if something goes wrong, it will definitely go wrong! Be careful while you delete the files or folders.
If you are not sure about a file or directory, please do not delete it, and then seek the help of a Joomla professional again.
This process does not delete the email account associated with your Joomla domain.

Joomla Redirect is important when you change some URL or direct http to https. Like physical addresses, your URL can change. If you change it, your frequent visitors and regular users might have a hard time finding it as the old and new addresses are separate. To avoid this, you can use 301 redirects. Simply put, a redirect will effortlessly “direct” the user (and the crawlers) to their new URL when they visit outdated URLs.

Why is “301 redirect” useful?

Suppose your website has an affiliate program, and you can find detailed information about the program at www.example.com/affiliate. But recently you changed the site structure and the permalink structure was also reorganized. Therefore, the “member” page has a new address: www.example.com/affiliate-program. As a result, because the URL has been changed, users who bookmarked the “Members” page with the old address will receive a 404 error. This awkward situation can be solved by 301 redirection. Joomla provides a built-in feature for this, called URL redirection.
It is also useful if you want to maintain site authority and SEO weight while moving the content to another page. The bot of the search engine will visit the old URL, redirect, and crawl the new page while maintaining the weight of the old URL.

Joomla 301 Redirects

Joomla uses a built-in plugin called Redirect to handle 301 redirects. You only need to follow a few simple steps to enable 301 redirects for any URL on your Joomla website.
Redirection of Joomla website can be also be done by modifying and editing the .htaccess file in the server. But many of us face problems while writing exactly the redirection code. Recently we found a website which can help us generating any .htaccess code, may it be non-www to www redirection, 301 redirection or 404 errors.
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Joomla Redirect non www to www and www to non www

For SEO reasons, it is better to redirect your site’s url other than www to www or vice versa.
For example, when trying to access our site through https://infyways.com, you redirect to https://data.infyways.com/new.
Note the “www” in the second URL. Technically, the version without www and the www version are two different domains. So redirecting one to another improves our SEO. Google and other search engines won’t have to worry about two different domains.
This tutorial will show you how to redirect the entire Joomla website to non-www or www.

• Open the default .htaccess file from your Joomla folder and find the following

RewriteEngine On

• To redirect non-www to www, add the following code below it:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

• To redirect non-www to www, add the following code below it:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

If none of the above methods work for you, please check if you are on the IIS server. If so, please try this tutorial.

Creating a 404 page in Joomla is essential as it tells the users that the page they are visiting isn’t found or broken. In this tutorial, I will explain to you the steps to create a 404 page. If the page isn’t found instead of 404 server error, a 200 HTTP code will be sent to the browser. This will also tell the search engine that page isn’t allowed to be crawled. So, now let us create it.

Step 1: Create an Uncategorized Joomla article

The first step is to create an article in the Uncategorized category. Set the title of the article to “404 – Page Not Found” and the alias to “404”. Add images or text which says “Sorry, the page isn’t found” or anything that you wish.

Step 2: Set the Robots to No Index, No Follow

The robots tell the search engine to either allow or disallow the page to index. As we don’t want the 404 to be indexed by the search engine. We have to set the Robots to No Follow, No Index in the Publishing tab of the Joomla article and Save the article.

Step 3: Create a Menu item

Once you have saved the article, create a Hidden Menu. To create it you can now go to Menus> Manage > Add Menu and fill the menu type and description.
After creating the Hidden Menu, navigate to Menus > Hidden Menu > Add New Menu Item

• Add the Menu Title and Alias
• Select the Menu Item Type as Single Article
• Save the article and copy the Link (index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=292)

Step 4: Create the error.php file

The error.php file is usually located in templates/YOUR_ACTIVE_TEMPLATE/error.php. If it doesn’t create an error.php file and add the following codes into it. Replace your link with your link into the header function below.

defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access');
if ($this->error->getCode() == '404')
{
header('Location: /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=292');
exit;
}

Save the file after adding the codes into error.php file of your template.

Step 5: Test your page

Once you have added the codes, test your website. Try to open a page which doesn’t exist. For example, www.yoursite.com/hahaha. If the site opens the 404 pages you have created, then everything works fine. If it doesn’t recheck the steps or contact us. We will help you out 🙂

Website regularly needs maintenance and it may be required to put on offline or maintenance mode so that the users will not be able to access the pages. A custom message like “The website is under maintenance please visit after some time” have to be set so that the visitor can understand and visit the website later.
You can set the site to offline in the backend of the Joomla administrator. The frontend of the website can’t be accessed by public. A super administrator can login to the frontend using the login credential in maintenance mode.

How to enable offline or maintenance mode in Joomla?

Unlike WordPress, you really don’t need an additional extension to do it. The option is available in the administrator panel of Joomla. You can follow the steps below to set the site to offline :

1. Login to the backend or administrator panel of Joomla.
2. Go to System > Global Configuration
3. In first Site Tab you will find an option “Site Offline”
4. Set it to Yes. Upon settings it to yes two other options will show up.
5. You can add your own offline custom message.
6. Click on the Save button after making the changes.