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Exporting your Filezilla Settings

15 Sep

Filezilla is a popular FTP client, which is very user-friendly.  So user-friendly that, when I wanted to export my Site settings, I missed the obvious, built in option to do so.  The instructions below apply to the Windows version of Filezilla.

Export your saved sites

To export the sites you’ve saved in Site Management, follow these simple steps:

  1. Go to “File”
  2. Click “Export”
  3. Choose what you want to export, click “Okay”
  4. Choose a filename and a location for your settings.

Importing your saved settings

  1. Go to “File”
  2. Click “Import”
  3. Find the settings file you want to import.
  4. Import it!

Export / Import all your settings

If you want to save all your settings, including stored certificates and the likes, you can simply copy the setting files.

  1. Go to %APPDATA%/Filezilla using Windows’ command bar, or after going to Start > Run
  2. Copy all files in this folder.
  3. To import them, simply follow step 1 on the target PC. 
  4. Make sure to back-up the files on the target PC, just in case
  5. Paste the files you copied.

And that’s it!

 
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Posted by on September 15, 2011 in Joomla

 

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Joomla 1.7 launched, could it be our Windows 7?

19 Jul

For those of you who hadn’t marked the date on their calendar: Joomla! 1.7 was released today. Fascinating! But you’re probably wondering how that affects you?

Like every self respecting new release, Joomla! 1.7 comes with new features. Those of you who were expecting revolutionary new features will end up being disappointed. Joomla 1.7 just builds upon the foundation that is Joomla! 1.6 – and it comes with a few changes we’ll all need to adapt to.

To find out what those changes are, read the full article on Joomlareporter.net

 
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Posted by on July 19, 2011 in Joomlareporter

 

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Solving a “jtablesession:: store failed” error

18 Jul

Is there a better way to start the week than with a nasty Joomla! error?  Don’t answer that question, it was rhetorical. 

I started this week by doing some maintenance of our own sites, when I was greeted by the following Joomla! error: Jtablesession:: store failed. 

This error is a serious one, as it’ll prevent anyone from visiting your website.  So it’s rather important that you tackle this problem straight away.  Here’s how I managed to solve the problem.  It’s rather simple, really, if you’ve got access to PHPMyadmin

How it’s done

I’m going to assume that you’ve got access to PHPMyadmin.  If not, the steps might be completely different for you.  Anyhow, moving on…

1.  Go to your database in PHPMyAdmin.

2. Open the table that’s giving you a headache, xxx_session.  Where xxx stands for your database prefix, usually jos.

3.  Go to “Operations”.  Once on the operations page, click “repair table” under “Table Maintenance.”

Your rogue table will now be fixed, and in most cases you’ll see that your problem is solved when you try visiting your website again.

 
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Posted by on July 18, 2011 in Joomla

 

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Help Brian Teeman spread the Joomla! Love

05 Jul

Joomla is very popular world wide, and the events that are held all around the world are living proof of that.  To make your event a success, it’s important to make sure that you’ve got some interesting speakers lined up.

Brian Teeman is one of those “interesting speakers”.  Don’t take our word for it.  Just watch any of his video’s and I’m sure you’ll agree with me.   He’s regularly invited to events all across the world, to “spread the Joomla!” love.  And you now have an opportunity to help him spread that love.

Travelling across the world isn’t cheap.  The rumor that Brian lives from the love of Joomla alone is false, so he needs toe at, drink and sleep too when travelling.  So, unless you own a private jet which he can borrow, or a chain of hotels worldwide, you can help him cover the costs of attending these Joomla! Events.

Brian speaks at Joomla! events for free.  Gratuit.  Gratis.   There’s nothing he’d rather do than constantly travelling the world to share his Joomla! secrets with you.  You don’t have to be a financial genius to understand that the less he has to spend on these travels, the more events he can attend – maybe one near you?

Okay, how do I help?

You can help, by buying an ad in the Slideshare presentation he’s working on.  This new presentation will be the sequel to the Slideshare hit “Hidden Joomla! Secrets”.  The original presentation was viewed over 30,000 times on Slideshare alone, and made it to the front page three times!

You can buy a spot in his new presentation – he’s reserving one spot per slide – or you can even buy the naming rights for the presentation.  Think about it.  Your company name in a title that’ll be read at least 30,000 times!

Interested?

If your company is looking for some quality advertising while spreading the Joomla! Love at the same time, this is an unique opportunity for you.   How unique?  Rumour has it that this is a one time offer, never to be repeated, and spots are going fast.

So what are you waiting for?  Go visit Brian Teeman’s blog, and find out all about what he’s offering!

 
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Posted by on July 5, 2011 in Various Articles

 

14 menu item names to avoid in Joomla!

29 Jun

If you’re new to Joomla! and don’t want to worry about aliases, conflicting URL’s and blank pages I’ve got an interesting list for you: a list of 14 names you need to avoid using for your menu items.

Using them will lead to problems, because there will be a conflict with the names of the Joomla! folders. If all of this sounds like gibberish to you, just remember not to use one of the 14 following names for your menu item:

  • Administrator
  • Cache
  • Components
  • Images
  • Includes
  • Language
  • Libraries
  • Logs
  • Media
  • Modules
  • Plugins
  • Templates
  • Tmp
  • XmlRPC
Of course, it’s still possible you run into problems with menu links.  If that’s the case, feel free to comment or ask your question in the Joomla! forums.
 
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Posted by on June 29, 2011 in Joomla

 

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