Dec
13
2008
Secure Your Joomla Website
HariesDesign.com - Joomla is a powerful content management system that helps to build the customized online applications, portals and websites. Joomla provides powerful solutions small business websites, community-based portals, jobs portals, news portals, e-commerce websites, auction websites, magazines, non-profit organizations and personal websites.  The real power of the Joomla in its application framework and there are thousands of developers that are creating the powerful add-ons, components and modules for Joomla.


Security is the major concern of every business owner online and there multiple security related components in Joomla for the user authentication, user management, backup, site security, captcha, content restriction and others. The basic Joomla package is secure and people find no problem in installing and running the application.  But sometimes, there is enhanced security features are required to secure the Joomla applications. There are some great third party components that can be used to secure your Joomla website.

Here are some best Joomla security related tips.

  • Rename the Joomla Admin account.
  • Always keep your Joomla website updated.
  • Make sure that your configuration.php file is not writable.
  • Change the files permissions CHMOD (644 for files, 755 for directories).
  • Check the vulnerabilities and the corrupt files by using the Joomla Diagnostic tools.
  • Use Strong password.
  • Backup your Joomla application periodically with good backup tools.