Upgrading your website from Joomla 2.5 or 1.5 to a recent 3x version can be technical and if ot carefully implemented can also break down your ebsite causing a huge problem. But you can carefull follow these guide to safely implement an upgrade for your Joomla website:
How to upgrade your Joomla! version 3 installation:
Back up the current version of your site
Log into Joomla!
Go to Components
Go to Joomla! Update
Click on the ‘Install the Update’ button
Once it’s complete, refresh your browser to see the changes
To upgrade your Joomla! version 2.5 or 1.5 installation:
Back up the current version of your site
Find the update file your need for your installation, that is the Joomla update file
Download and extract the file
Open up the /libraries/joomla/session until you see session.php
Log into your website using FTP or the File Manager in your eXtend Control Panel
Browse to the /libraries/joomla/session folder in your site
Replace session.php with the version you have just downloaded
Once it’s complete, refresh your browser to see the changes
While this only affects Joomla! users, this is a problem that is regularly seen with all Content Management Systems, CMS, – including WordPress, Drupal, and others. An exploit is found, website owners don’t update their software until when their site is hacked.
There are steps you can take to prevent this from happening. They might seem obvious, but many people forget, and end up with major problems down the line.
Never Forget to Take The Followwing Steps:
Update your software regularly
This is one of the most obvious thing you must always do. When WordPress, Joomla!, or any other piece of software tells you there is a new version available, update it. If your software doesn’t inform you there’s a new version out, make an effort to regularly check the software’s website, and see if new versions are released. With Joomla and most popular CMSs, you will alays a notification on the dashboad
Software companies don’t release new versions to make minor cosmetic changes – if they’ve released an update, it’s fixing something that’s wrong, and the more things patched, the safer your system is.
Update your plug-ins
While you might remember to update the main software, you need to make sure you update your plug-ins as well. Plugin incompatibility can be a real problem and is a source of CMS hacks as revealed by Sucuri in its recent securty report on content management systems.
WordPress is great for telling you what needs to be updated, from the main software to your smallest plug-ins to even the translations, but you still need to actively click that “Update” button. And if you have a bespoke plug-in, check with the developer regularly to make certain that you’re using the latest version and that any potential security holes have been patched.
Secure Your Website With the .htaccess file
The htaccess file is a powerful file that can be used to manipulate the behaviour of your website including its security. You can use this file to prevent eploitation and access to vulnerable folders and that will help prevent exploitations on your site.
If it costs money, don’t go hunting for a free version
You find an excellent theme or plug-in, but you don’t want to pay for it. You might think that you can just search for a free version, download, and install it, but many so-called “free” versions will have malicious code embedded right into the theme or plug-in. Install it, and it doesn’t matter how careful you are with your site’s security – you’re already taken.
If the designer or developer has created a free version, they will always have it with the paid version. Only trust the software developer or the theme designer – any other websites offering you a download are suspect.
Always back up your site
Again, an obvious thing to say, but so important. If your site is hacked, a clean backup makes it infinitely easier to check where things went wrong and fix them, rather than trying to restore your site while fixing it at the same time.
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If your site is infected and causing problems on our servers, we may disable your site. Obviously, we don’t want to do that, and we want to work with you to prevent problems, but follow this advice, and, hopefully, you’ll never have a problem.
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