{"id":10163,"date":"2018-07-30T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T08:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/?p=10163"},"modified":"2020-01-07T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T09:45:56","slug":"tips-to-safeguard-your-joomla-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/tips-to-safeguard-your-joomla-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips to safeguard your Joomla website"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lets_first_understand_what_Joomla_is_and_how_does_it_help_to_build_a_website\"><\/span><strong>Let\u2019s first understand what Joomla is and how does it help to build a website?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Joomla-Banner-1-2-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Joomla-Banner-1-2-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Joomla-Banner-1-2-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Joomla-Banner-1-2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Joomla-Banner-1-2-660x345.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Joomla-Banner-1-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is an open source system that can manage content efficiently. Joomla is also used for development of websites and applications that are supported on line. Technically, Joomla consists of two templates, a front-end template which is made user friendly and a back-end template which is mostly used by the administrators of the website. Joomla is created using PHP (designing the front end), Object Oriented Programming language (for coding), MySQL (for storing data).<\/p><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_76 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/tips-to-safeguard-your-joomla-website\/#Lets_first_understand_what_Joomla_is_and_how_does_it_help_to_build_a_website\" >Let\u2019s first understand what Joomla is and how does it help to build a website?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/tips-to-safeguard-your-joomla-website\/#What_is_Content_Management_System_CMS\" >What is Content Management System (CMS)?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Content_Management_System_CMS\"><\/span><strong>What is Content Management System (CMS)?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a software that is capable of keeping track of all the data. Data can be in various forms such as text, images, document, etc. This data is available on the site. CMS also helps in editing, altering and publishing the content of website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Generally, Joomla is used for developing websites of different kinds and sizes. Joomla can be used for development of following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Sites and portals for Corporates<br>\u2022 Start-ups and small-sized business websites<br>\u2022 Magazines, newspapers, and publications that have an online presence<br>\u2022 E-commerce sites and online booking &amp; reservations<br>\u2022 Websites for government, NGO\u2019s and organizations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Open source softwares are free to use, distribute and modify. It has a lower cost compared to the cost of its proprietary counterparts. But at the same time, it is subjected to getting attacked. Taking precautions before your website gets hacked and working on how to improvise its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/esds.co.in\/security\/vtmscan\"><strong>Security<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;is extremely necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following are few some ways by which you can prevent your Joomla from getting hacked:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Make sure you keep Joomla and its extensions updated at all times:<\/strong>&nbsp; The most essential part of keeping any Joomla website protected is by keeping it updated to the newest version. The reason for this that all the versions that are released, have some or the other kind of fixes for security concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Setting strong login credentials:<\/strong>&nbsp; Default user ids such as \u2018admin\u2019 and \u2018administrations\u2019 shouldn\u2019t be used at the first place. Hackers are prone to attack such user id\u2019s first. Secondly,<br>always set a password having a greater strength for the admin account of the site in order to protect your website from getting brute-forced by hackers. Always follow the tips mentioned below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Avoid using words like admin, admin123, god, love, etc.<br>\u2022 Don\u2019t use personal data such as your private or family name in your credentials.<br>\u2022 Make sure you use any special characters like *!@#$(), figures and capital letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Make sure you allot right file permissions &amp; ownership:<\/strong>&nbsp; Setting up right ownership and permissions on the Joomla files and folders is again a necessary part, if you wish to keep it away from being hacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is advised that you follow the suggestions below to set permissions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Set all Joomla folders to 755<br>\u2022 Set all Joomla files to 644<br>\u2022 Set the configuration.php file to 444<br>\u2022 Ensure you don\u2019t use 777 (full access) permissions at all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ensure your Joomla site is backed up very often: It is necessary to&nbsp;<strong>back up<\/strong>&nbsp;your Joomla website as often as possible. A copy of your Joomla file and database should be stored on your system in case your site gets snapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s first understand what Joomla is and how does it help to build a website? It is an open source system that can manage content efficiently. Joomla is also used for development of websites and applications that are supported on line. 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