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Answer to Joomla 1.5.9 Front-End Login Problem

Ridhuan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:05:03 +0000

If you have just installed Joomla and placed the login form on the homepage, you or your visitors might have problem to login to their account. I have found out why users can’t login using the login form of the homepage of Ridhuan.co.cc. It’s probably because of the security setting of the login form. I didn’t notice previously that everytime I pushed the login button, the page is redirected to https://ridhuan.co.cc/index.php. My server might not support secure connection therefore the page cannot be loaded. If you’re experiencing the same problem, try check out the mod_login module in the Module Manager.

Try this:

Go to the Module Manager
Edit the mod_login module
In the Module Parameters section, select No for Encrypt Login Form option.

mod_login

I hope this would help. If you’re still experiencing the problem, check out Joomla Forum because it probably not because of the secure connection capability of your server.

If the problem is settled after trying my suggestion, don’t try to change your site setting to use SSL in the Global Configuration>Server>Force SSL. With force SSL, your site will be using https and you might not be able to login to administration page to remove the setting if your server does not offer SSL. The only way to revert back is by editing the configuration.php file.

Joomla 1.5.9 SEO Friendly URL Solution

Ridhuan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:30:42 +0000

Since installing Joomla and WordPress in my server about 2 weeks ago, I’m having the problem where SEO friendly URL for the Joomla site is not working. If you don’t understand this, here’s an example:

Non-SEO friendly URL: http://www.ridhuan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=3&Itemid=4

SEO friendly version: http://www.ridhuan.com/categoryname/articlename

Finally I’ve found why Joomla 1.5.9 SEO Friendly URL doesn’t work. It is in the .htaccess file.

Replace:

RewriteRule (.*) index.php

in .htaccess file with

RewriteRule (.*) /index.php

and the SEO friendly URL should work fine. You must already turn on the Apache mod_rewrite. I’m not sure if this solution can be applied for other version than Joomla 1.5.9 as I’m using. I’m also using the latest MySQL, PHP, and Apache version therefore if the solution does not work for you, try check out you version and contact you hosting server.

I’m still having a problem with the site’s login module. Users cannot login to the site using the login form but new users can register without any problem. Unless this problem has been settled, I just can’t start to write any good article to the site. Maybe because of my nature where everything has to work fine before I can start doing my job. I’ve searched for the solution in the Joomla forum and still waiting for some solution.