Joomla is one of the most popular Content Management Software out there these days. There are so many reasons for it being ranked in the top ten. One of the reasons are it’s great active community. Since Joomla is distributed free of charge in the open source community it has a vast number of users, who are willing to contribute to the Joomla community.
When security breaches are discovered, the Joomla team gets on it right away, and usually a security fix or update is available within only couple of hours.
Below we have composed a list of tips and tricks that every Joomla site owner should take into account. By following those tips and tricks you are less likely to suffer from a serious attack, or major data loss.
- Backups, backups and backup again! – make it routine! Backups are the most essential precaution one can take in order to ensure data integrity. Many things can go wrong and by having a backup of the site you will be ready to restore the site in a very short time. We are recommending to do at least weekly backups of the files, using a synchronizing software, and to perform database checkup and backup on a regular basis.
- Use Apache .htaccess – by using apache’s .htaccess file you can provide extra restriction on which folders can be viewed by users.
- Change the default administrator user name – don’t let the super admin be admin/administrator use sometime different, hackers might run a key generator or phrase generator to try to crack your password. If they don’t know the user name it will be harder for them!
- Protect your folders! – make sure all subfolders have empty index.html file in them, so users won’t be able to view and browse the content of a certain folder.
- Use SSL! – SSL is currently the only way to encrypt information sent between the server and the client, it’s done by encrypting the data and even if the connection is being intercepted the data is still encrypted.
- Use well formed passwords – again, don’t have a passwords such as the name of your wife or your birthday, make sure when you choose your password to use upper case, lower case, numbers and even special characters, the more complex password you will have the harder it would be to crack it.
- Stay current with security updates and patches – sign up for the joomla security mailing list. When a new threat is discovered you will be notified right away, with instructions on what you should do to protect your site farther.
Please make sure to visit the joomla’s forum for any security updates, and any questions that you might have.
Being well prepared and up to date is the best protection!
I will be happy to hear back from you with any comments you might have on this article.
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