Archive: June 2013

I started with a Joomla 1.5.23 site and upgraded it with a joomla 1.5.x – 1.5.26 package from the Joomla website. I went to jEvents to get an updated version. I decided to google jEvents joomla 1.5 upgrade and found this link from jEvents.

http://www.jevents.net/downloads/category/70-j15-j25-migration

Starts with a jUpgrade or simular migration to 2.5. Start by going into plug-ins and enable Moo Tools Upgrade. Then install and run jUpgrade. I have had a lot of difficulty getting jUpgrade to run smoothly in WAMP. I have finally figured out a good install method after a couple of Win 7 reloads and multiple attempts to get WAMP set up with CURL correctly. Here is link to how I did it.

http://blog.grimeymedia.com/migrating-joomla-1-5-to-2-5/

Follow this lesson and got it all up and running in 45 minutes. Basically did jUpgrade, ran their migration php script, and then installed jEvents 3.0 and all the old info was in the new database.

I found a file called “zot”. Inside was text “abcdefghi”. There was also a file called “test_me”. Inside this file was “#!/bin/sh
id
cat zot
echo ok”

This is a linux bash script used to cat or create a file called zot. Must be connected to an attack.

There was another file called “open_test” with another linux bash script.

#!/bin/sh
set -x
DIR=”/home/my_website/public_html”
cd $DIR
SUSTR=”
if [[ “$UID” -eq “0” || `id -un` != ‘audio’ ]];
then
SUSTR=”sudo -u audio ”
fi
$SUSTR $DIR/test_me

I recently upgraded a Joomla 1.5 site to 2.5. I needed to expire a article, but the publishing options weren’t there. I am still learning 2.5, and needed to figure it out. Here is what I saw.

There was no place to set the published and unpublished dates. Back out the to the list of articles and click on “options.”

Under Editing Layout make sure “Show Publishing Options” is set to “Yes”. Mine was set to yes, but wasn’t show. Click “save and close”.

Now, the publishing options should be there.

Working a redesign the image on the home page were responding to the the size of the browser, but only the width was changing. Found this article on the web that solved my problem.

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201306/how_to_proportionally_scale_images_that_have_dimension_attributes/

The CSS for the img was:

img {      max-width: 100%;
}

img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}

I hope this helps someone else.

I had a div with the id of footer. I needed to float three other divs ( div1, div2, and div3) inside this footer div. When I floated div2 and hit refresh in the browser to see my results the parent div (footer) collapsed.

A quick search brought me to this following link that fixed the problem.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/218760/how-do-you-keep-parents-of-floated-elements-from-collapsing/11597829#11597829

The part i needed was to set the parent div to “overflow:auto;”

I have never looked into getting user friendly / mod rewrites on the .htaccess file in Joomla when I am running the site locally under WAMP, but stumbled on this.

https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/troubleshooter/prbasicts.html

Basically, click on WAMP server’s tray icon. Go to >>  Apache >> Apache Modules and make sure that Rewrite is checked. If not, click on it and wait for the server to restart.

I was putting my Win 7 computer in sleep mode at night. In the morning the machine would be on. A quick search brought me to Task Scheduler. It turned out to be the Media Player was updating itself.

The following are screen shots of how to turn it off.