Even best laid plans get sidetracked.

I was going to start looking at the Joomla SEF404 component for a combination of shorter URL's and also to get some decent IP banning in place to try and put a stop to all of the pesky .ru domains that keep finding ways around the anti spam filters.

Then Joomla released another upgrade and we are onto 1.5.15

The biggest fix for me in this release is the fix to stop showing the admin password in the configuration.php file which was always a car crash waiting to happen.

Keeping on top of the updates is a vital part of any webmasters tasks to do. If you don't do it you are asking for trouble.

Hands up all those that have out of date wordpress installations?

It's the same as backing up. If you don't back up your database sites then you risk losing all of your work. Don't rely on your webhost for backups.

Anyway, once you keep on top of the game you only have a 2MB patch file to apply and so it's not going to take all that long to do. It only becomes a pain when you have to start patching 7 or 8 MB files because you are way behind the development cycle.

By the way, it's not mentioned on the Joomla site but when you apply the patch you need to delete the existing .htaccess (copying any modifications you've made) and then rename the new one. Otherwise the fixes for rewriting the URL's won't work.

 

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