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Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Related 0. Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled. Accept all cookies Customize settings. I think my problem was rectified because I did a clean install on an empty server as opposed to uploading over the old install.

I will delete the lot and do a clean install today. What about the db tables? Did you drop them as well? And it all works at last. Bit of a mystery why it failed before but no worries for me now. Hope others having similar trouble read this and persisit. But rather an installation issue? Perhaps FTP dropped some files? Or permission changes resolved this? Regarding your comment about a document for future readers - click the Help button at top of this forum and locate the Installation Guide on that page.

It is very helpful. I am glad that you are now okay. I just receive blank page with restricted access Any idea's would be welcome Tx. When i installed Joomla in Sub-directory, and did a clean installation it worked out perfectly.

I think its from the hosting company, i advice all having the same problem to contact their hosting provider. Everything was working fine before the upgrade. I'll let you know when I figure it out. Any help is appreciated from anyone that has solved this. Thanks Ted. Just removing and reinstalling the components didn't fix the problem originally so I assume there was some kind of file corruption in the Administrator folder.

I uploaded another fresh copy of joomla, then reinstalled the back up copy of my finished web site on top of it. My web site is not showing but my contents are there. The solution I did my application using mvc patron and using the 1. Someone told me to go into my PHPadmin and upload my backup copy of my data base. Its all back to normal. This means that vulnerability exists which can compromise your installation. You need to be extremely careful about installing any extensions. If you install extensions make sure you monitor their releases and ensure that you follow their security recommendations.

For more information go to the Joomla! Security FAQ. If your site does get hacked, you MUST ensure that it comes back online as soon as possible with as little loss of content as possible. For this, you must ensure that you have good working daily or more frequently as the need arises backups. AkeebaBackup is an open-source component for the Joomla! CMS that allows for full site backups files and database. It allows you to create full backups and has full functionality to restore your site if things go belly up.

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No Backups 8. Skipping hardening tweaking settings for security of PHP and secure Joomla! Using Weak Passwords or reusing passwords 6. Install and forget 5. Having no development server 4. Trusting all 3rd party extensions 3. Forgetting to keep your Joomla!

Lack of information when asking for help 1. Rename the Joomla! Make sure your configuration. Always try to keep your Joomla installation upgraded to the latest version 4. Upgrade to the latest PHP version 5. Ensure correct File and Folder permissions 6. Check your site for vulnerabilities 7. Never leave extra files running around 8. Protect your configuration files and sensitive directories 9.

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