Building a great website is tough, but finishing the code and layout is only half the story. Too many sites have problems after going live because they weren't tested properly first.
Lots of things can and do go wrong, from poorly formatted code that some browsers choke on, to pages that break when opened on other platforms. If you developed your site on a Mac, what guarantee do you have that it'll look the same on a PC, for example?
Even now, when HTML structures are likely to be served as part of a CMS template system, it's important that all the basics are in place. You need a soak test: a checklist of crucial areas that you can test are working before the site goes live.
That's exactly what we've put together here. Follow our tips and your site will be as problem-free as possible.
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
Google, Yahoo and Bing integrated the real time search results on their pages. Before that as well they were showing the facebook profile page of facebook users on their search results for certain keywords. If you want to hide your facebook profile (for some personal reasons) from indexing on search engines like google, Yahoo, Bing etc then you can use the Privacy Settings properly to control that.
Privacy Settings to avoid showing your profile on Search Engines
1. Login to your facebook account and go to the Settings tab at top – right corner of profile page
2. Select “Privacy Settings” from the dropdown
3. Select “Search” from the list of security options
4. Click on “Change Settings”, a popup will prompt asking for your facebook password
5. Enter you password and then uncheck the box “Allow Indexing” under Public Search ResultsYou should complete this settings changes just after creating your account as it is difficult to avoid showing your profile after indexing is done. Your profile indexing may take at least 5 – 6 days for completion, so remove the check under this period only.
After searching numerous blogs and not finding the exact resolution that I was looking for; I finally found some information that was specific for me and am hoping that this will help others in not having to spend hours of searching for an answer.
"I installed Joomla on the Remote Host (Godaddy) only. I created website. Cannot figure out how to make it show up at main site http://www.domain.com instead of http://www.domain.com/joomla. Don't know how to move it to main directory..." (user: MattieSunshine)
The following is a snipet from the above forum, where if you are using GoDaddy as your service provider, then you will find these two answers just what you may be looking for:
"... If there is nothing else in the root of your site www.domain.com other than the default Go Daddy files and folders, then in the File Manager of the Hosting Control Center, select the joomla folder in the right pane and click the move button and choose the root of the site from the left pane as the destination. Once that is finished, edit the configuration.php tmp and log paths to reflect this new location (just remove the /joomla)..." (user: 2ninerniner2)"
Response directly from GoDaddy...
"These are all great solutions. If you only need to create a redirect you may also find the Sites Redirect Manager helpful. You can redirect your site from http://www.domain.com to http://www.domain.com/joomla. (user: GoDaddy)
#1 -- create an .htaccess file inside the /webroot/ with the contents:
Code:
RewriteBase /
# Add trailing slash if path does not contain a period or end with a slash RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.|/$) RewriteRule (.*) http://yoursite.com/$1/ [R=301,L]
#Change http://yoursite.com to http://www.yoursite.com (Optional) #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com$ #RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L] #### Rewrites http://www.yoursite.com/subdir to http://www.yoursite.com/ ## Added this to allow existing files and directories to work RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d ## Now the rewrite of subdir to rootdir RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/joomla RewriteRule ^(.*)$ joomla/$1 [L]
#2 -- rename the standard /webroot/joomla/htaccess.txt file to /webroot/joomla/.htaccess file (no .txt). Change "#RewriteBase /" to "RewriteBase /joomla"
#3 -- In joomla/configuration.php, set $live_site to var $live_site = 'http://yoursite.com';
Hosting Joomla on GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com) can be challenging, but many people choose the ISP because of the low price of their hosting, their size, and the nearly perfect up-time record on their servers. Here are a few tips that will help you get Joomla running on GoDaddy with minimum fuss.
When installing Joomla to GoDaddy:
Think twice before using the Value Added Application (VAA) installer -- If you use the Joomla version that installs under the VAA menu, it won't install at your root folder, but instead in the directory \joomla. That means when a visitor types in your direct URL, they won't be taken directly to the Joomla site. Also, by downloading (from www.joomla.org) and installing manually, you can choose the Joomla version # you want to use.
Edit the htaccess.txt file -- For Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs, you will need to edit the htaccess.txt file to turn on the RewriteBase option. In the file, you will find a line that reads #RewriteBase / that you need to change to RewriteBase / -- remove the pound (#) sign.
Rename htaccess.txt -- You need to rename the htaccess.txt to .htaccess which you can do from your FTP program.
To configure Joomla once installed:
Turn on Search Engine Friendly (SEF) in the Global Configuration (GC) -- To make sure you have the best search engine page ranking, turn on both the SEF and the mod_rewrite options on the GC screen.
Turn on caching in the GC -- The slowest aspect of GoDaddy Joomla hosting is the shared access to MySQL. By turning on caching, a page will be stored as a standard HTML when accessed (the home page, for example). If the next time the page is referenced the cached version hasn't expired, it will simply send the stored file instead of reconstructing the page from the MySQL database.
These tips should help you configure and run Joomla on GoDaddy for best performance and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
GoDaddy are one of the largest and least expensive web hosts around. We run a number of websites on GoDaddy with no issues and are quite satisfied with the performance.
Plans start from just $4.99 and features include unlimited domain names and an automated Joomla installer.
Support is not the fastest we have experienced but we think the combined package is excellent value for money.
While we're big dreamhost fans here at Simple Subjects, a lot of our customers use GoDaddy for hosting. So we thought it'd make sense to provide a few pointers on GoDaddy installation:
After downloading the Joomla files, unzipping them, and uploading them to your server via FTP, you'll need to take the following steps:
In the GoDaddy Hosting Manager click the MySQL icon to setup an SQL database. Go ahead and choose a name for your database. (It doesn't matter what the name is, but it'll have to be something that nobody else has used before, so it might take a try or two.)
Choose a password. Click Continue, then click Create Database.
Write down the database name and the host name that it gives you. These will be used on the "Database Configuration" step of your Joomla installation.
Other than that, you should be good-to-go by following the normal Joomla installation instructions.
