Tuesday, September 20, 2011

How to Remove Joomla Site Title from Home page

1) Login at YourSiteDomain/administrator/index.php as Administrator
2) Menu > mainmenu > Home
3) On the Right of the Screen look in the Parameters(System) section "Page Title" > NO

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Joomla can't find file jos_session.frm or MySQL Can't read dir (errno: 13)

If you find an Error message containing one of
  1. "Can't find file" ... "jos_session.frm"
  2. MySQL Can't read dir ... (errno: 13)
This is easily Due to:
  1. Incorrect MySQL Directory Ownership
  2. MySQL server Started by Wrong User
To correct this first you need to determine what user is running the MySQL Server by:

ps aux | grep mysql

If you receive a line of output containing the directory where your MySQL process
is Resident you can proceed to change the Ownership.
First select the MySQL Path but "/bin/mysqld", copy it and then paste in this:
Example:
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql yourMySQLBasePathDir

If your path contains also the MySQL version number you should have also a symbolic link from this one to a "mysql" dir and you will need to change ownerships also to this second one.

After you should check you are able to login as mysql user by:
su mysql
If you haven't already set a password you should provide to set it by:
sudo passwd mysql

Now as mysql user you can stop and restart the mysql server:
sudo killall mysqld
yourMySQLBasePathDir/bin/mysqld_safe

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

How to Display Entire Section in Joomla 1.5

Here below there is the Scheme or Procedure to follow for
Displaying an entire Section in your Site:

1) Go to Admin Site
2) Follow this Selection Path inside Menu:
Menu > yourMenu > New
Menu-Item -> Internal Link -> Section
Now Choose one between:
  • Section Blog Layout
  • Section Layout
3) On the Upper-Left of the Form Select your Section
4) Insert in the Title the text you want to compare as Link

Now when you go to your FrontPage you will find inside yourMenu a Link
 than will Display your Section.