Google Analytics Code to Joomla Website

Chriss — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:41:53 +0000

Google Analytics is a powerful tool you can use from Google for free. It is a web base program that generates detailed visitor statistic of your website. Traffic analysis from search engines, direct traffic and referrals. In order to use it for your website you need to sign up with Google Analytics. Copy the code and paste it to your website before the ending body tag of your index.php. This tutorial is basically for Joomla websites just like the titles says

Copy Google Analytics Code
Open your index.php for your template:
(Joomla_folder/templates/template_name/index.php)
Scroll to the end of your index.php and look for your ending body tag
Paste Google Analytics Code before the ending body tag
Wait for Google Analytics to start receiving data!

From key words to unique visitor of your werbsite Google Analytics is just the perfect tool for a webmaster to improve any marketing strategy. If you need help with Google Analytics on how it works just click the links.

SSL on Joomla Administrator Access

Chriss — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:47:57 +0000

Add security on your Joomla administrator access. If you have Secure Sockets Layer(SSL) on your website just don’t use it on your shopping carts and forms, use it also with your Joomla administrator log-in. This way you are assured that you are entering your log-in information for your Joomla admin access on a secured connection. Other way to strengthen your Joomla admin access is to have a complex username and password. Always combine symbols, numbers, letter and atleast 6 to 10 characters. To make sure Joomla! administrator log-in is on a secure connection.

In administrator/index.php, immediately after the line that says:

define( ‘_VALID_MOS’, 1);

Add the following:

//Redirect to https if accessed over http (except when running locally)

if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] != “localhost”)

{

$port = $_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"];

$ssl_port = “443″; //Change 443 to whatever port you use for https (443 is the default and will work in most cases)

if ($port != $ssl_port)

{ $host = $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"];

$uri = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

header(“Location: https://$host$uri”);

}

}

Logging out and returning to http: In administrator/logout.php, look for:

// return to site homepage mosRedirect( ‘../index.php’ );

Change it to:

// return to site homepage mosRedirect( ‘http://www.yourdomainname.com/index.php’ );

Disclaimer: This hack is not guaranteed to work on every server configuration or Joomla installation. Use of these hacks is entirely at your own risk!

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Google Analytics Code to Joomla Website

SSL on Joomla Administrator Access