Can’t Login to Joomla’s Backend when SSL Is Enabled

A new client emailed us yesterday and told us that every time he tries to login to the backend of his Joomla website, he’s redirected to the login page with no errors (our client called this issue “the admin login loop”). So the first thing that we asked him is whether he checked our post […]

You Can’t Create a Menu Item Alias Pointing to a Menu Item of Type “External URL”

A new client called us and told us that a newly created menu of his, which is created out of another menu, does not work. He said that none of the links work in the new menu, despite the fact that they work in the other menu. So we looked into the issue and we […]

The Right Way to Handle 404’s in Joomla

404: it’s probably the most known number in the Internet world, and it means that the page is not found. Ironically, 200, the response code that one will get when the page is found and everything’s OK, is not nearly as known. This, from our psychological perspective, sheds a light on the pessimistic nature of […]

“No Input File Specified” Error on Joomla 3.3.6

A client called us around 1:30 AM this morning, and told us that his website went down all of a sudden. We checked the website and here’s the error that we saw: No Input File Specified Hmmm… It was probably the first time that we saw this error and so we started by debugging the […]

How to Quickly Remove All Articles in Joomla

In this day and age, everyone wants more content on their website (after all, content is king), so for many, this post won’t make any sense. But for some, it does. In fact, we had some clients who actually wanted to reset the content of their Joomla website, despite the potential SEO implications (which we […]

Yet Another Reason for a Blank Page on a Joomla Website

Blank pages on Joomla sites: we thought we have seen them all. But today, we discovered that there might still be a few reasons that we don’t know of that cause blank pages on Joomla sites. Here’s what happened… A new client called us this morning and told us that he was seeing a blank […]