Search results matching tag 'joomla'

Joomla on II6 - slow page load

phuoctue — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:30:36 GMT

Hi all,

I have a Joomla based site which run on IIS 6 (Win server 2003) and connect to a MySQL database at the same physical host. Please note that this host also handle several PHP based in-house developed sites. All PHP sites are handled by the FastCGI extension.

The problem: All PHP in-house sites load and response like immediately but the Joomla based site takes time to response - approx. 10-20 seconds after a click to display the linked page. I have also tried latest Zend Optimizer for the Joomal based site only but not any better.

Could you advise on how to tweak the site settings so the page can load faster?I have followed all recommedned settings for PHP, IIS and FastCGI configurations.

I tried to duplicate the same site to run on Apache and it loads faster - only about 5 seconds to display a page after a command.

Thanks a lot.

301 Redirects with Joomla on IIS7

jtalbot — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:52:32 GMT

Hello, I just wanted to ask if there are any gotchas with doing 301 redirects for Joomla pages. I had setup some Joomla categories & articles and used a section layout, but I'm not happy with the navigation for various reasons and want to change that.

At the same time I also want to change the URLs. Right now they show up like this:

http://www.global-autotrading.com/autotraded-newsletters/18-stock-advisor-group/48-day-trading-stock-picks.html

I want this to redirect to:

http://www.global-autotrading.com/autotraded-newsletters/stock-advisor-group/day-trading-stock-picks.html

Of course, these pages don't actually "exist" at that physical location; I just have all 3 of the SEO options in Joomla turned on, and use URL redirection in the web.config:

|%3E)" input="{QUERY_STRING}">

(there's some weird line that shows up in the post: |%3E)" input="{QUERY_STRING}">, but I can't get rid of it, pls just ignore it)

I've basically copied the above config, so I don't know too much about the details. How do I combine the above with 301 redirects?

Re: Joomla

John Kisha — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:03:20 GMT

There is a form on the web site listed the first reply that has a link to a contact us form.

Here is the reply I got back from them, posted here with permission:

In reality, most other open source projects have paid staff. We do not. So we rely on our community to pitch in to achieve what they would like. Perhaps you and other professionals working with Joomla in the MS environment would like to join together to support this initiative financially or else would like to contribute developer time and know how from your firms. My understanding is that it is not a technically hard task, but simply one that requires someone to commit their time to it.. It's very hard for me to convince volunteer developers to help MS make money from their freely contributed work. I'm not giving up though.

Elin Waring
President
Open Source Matters
Part of the Joomla! Project
Providing a flexible platform for digital publishing and collaboration

how to install joomla in iis7+windows 2008+fastcgi+php+mysql environment

necropal_co — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:46:58 GMT

sir, im installing joomla using the steps in this website "http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/527/joomla-on-iis/" however i dont know how to do this portion... Grant write permissions on configuration file Joomla uses configuration file called configuration.php in order to store key configuration settings. Before running the installer you need to create this file to give the web server write privileges to the new file. Joomla's installer will modify the configuration.php file as needed with the details you provide during the installation process. After creating the new file you can assign write permissions to it with the command (from the installation directory): C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Joomla>icacls configuration.php /grant BUILTIN\IIS_IUSRS:(M) Grant write permissions to tmp folder Joomla uses the tmp folder to store temporary files. Because of that it needs to be able to write and modify files in this folder. To enable that, grant modify permissions to this folder: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Joomla>icacls tmp /grant BUILTIN\IIS_IUSRS:(OI)(CI)(M)

Re: How to know for sure if FastCGI is being used to run php scripts

ruslany — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:05:30 GMT

In your test you did not use url rewriting. If you used URL rewriting then the REQUEST_URI would contain the rewritten URL. You can confirm that by creating this simple rewrite rule:

Then request http://yoursite.com/foo.html and check what's the value of $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]. You will see that the value is "/phpinfo.php". For Joomla SEO to work the value needs to be "/foo.html".

I am not sure I understand the reason for not supporting FastCGI. The answer is too generic. FastCGI works fine when there are separate application pools for each site. It is actually the recommended way of using FastCGI in shared hosting enviornment.

Re: How to know for sure if FastCGI is being used to run php scripts

ruslany — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:54:02 GMT

Using ISAPI will still cause incompatibility issues when you use URL Rewriter to enable SEO URL's in joomla. The problem is that when you use URL Rewriter the ISAPI will set REQUEST_URI to contain the rewritten url, which, according to the Joomla rewrite rule, will always be index.php. Joomla uses that server variable to figure out which page to serve so it ends up always showing the home page for any URL you requested.

If you use FastCGI then Joomla SEO functionality should work properly because FastCGI module will set the REQUEST_URI correctly, i.e. to contain the original URL before any rewriting happened.

How to know for sure if FastCGI is being used to run php scripts

jtalbot — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:23:46 GMT

Hello,

I have a hosted site and I'm having trouble configuring Joomla (running Joomla + php + mySQL on IIS7 + win server 2008). I have a similar configuration running on a local machine (Joomla + php + mySQL on IIS7 + vista x64), so I was at least able to follow instructions showed in various tutorials on how to set this up.

This symptom with the hosted site is that I can't turn on any SEO settings in Joomla (not even the first setting, "Search Engine Friendly URLs"). I get either 404 (file not found) or the URL appears correctly rewritten but it's always the home page's content that is displayed. I had a similar issue on my home machine and it turns out to have been because I wasn't using FastCGI to host php, so I decided to investigate that on the hosted site.

Anyway, I noticed in the web.config file of the directory hosting joomla on the hosted site the following line:

From past experience, I know that php has some issues when not running under fastCGI. I noticed the web.config in the root folder used the following line instead:

I copied that in the web.config in the joomla directory, and got different behavior... but still not working. If I load a .php file in the joomla directory that runs phpInfo(), under Server API it says CGI/FastCGI . Is that positive confirmation that FastCGI is being used? Why does the handler in the web config point to modules="CgiModule" instead of modules="FastCgiModule" (I'm not even sure that exists, but I just find the mention of CgiModule suspicious).

It's a hosted site, so as far as I know I don't have access to ApplicationHost.config file...

Re: joomla

ruslany — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:42:14 GMT

Try this instead:

open_basedir = "\\hb1411\iisstorage\web;c:\windows\temp;/tmp" . This worked for me.

Re: joomla

ruslany — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:43:15 GMT

It looks like Joomla tries to check folder "/tmp" at the file system root. Since the open_basedir does not allow access to that location the warning occurs. The easiest way to fix that I think is to add the "C:\tmp" to the open_basedir, e.g.:

open_basedir = \\hb1411\iisstorage\web;c:\windows\temp;c:\tmp

Note, that you do not actually have to have this directory on a file system as Joomla will fall back to configured session directory if it cannot write to tmp folder.

IIS and Joomla security question

iivanov — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:25:43 GMT

I am porting a Joomla site on Apache to a new server with w2k3 and IIS 6.

Everything seems ok, I have PHP, MySql and Joomla 1.0.15 running, but...

I have tried to check if everything is ok with Joomla HISA, but no matter what security I set on the folders I always get that configuration.ph is writable, and all of the folders have 777 (world writable) permission.

The permissions for the root folder of the site are:
Administrators full access
IUSR_COMP Read&Execute, List, Read

and for the configuration.php:
Administrators full access
IUSR_COMP Read&Execute, Read

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks