Category: Networking

Migrate my Joomla 1.0.15 to 1.5.x

Yes, I know… My Joomla site is very old. In this article I will write down all my migration steps. The best practise is to create a development environment. I download and install a Debian 5.0 (lenny) OS and installed all the common LAMP, SSH, Samba, PHPMyadmin & ImageMagick  packages. Then:

  1. I Copy the content of my site to my development environment
  2. Edit the joomla configuration.php file and change my physical paths
  3. Upload my database
  4. Check all my joomla modules
  5. set 777 permisions for easy testing 😉
  6. I know from earlier testing that mine Joomla template is not compatible with 1.5. So I download and install Artisteer 2 to create a new template. This software works so easy I created the template with my girlfriend 😉 (download torrent)
  7. My Biggest concern is the community builder component and the forum. This are the most important modules so I will upgrade them first.
  8. Backup administrator/components/com_comprofiler/ue_config.php, remove the CB module and reinstall the latest versions. (note: latest CB have 1.5.10 native support)
  9. My Fireboard version is aleady to the latest version (1.0.5 RC2) 😀
  10. Now I will install the migrator tools and follow the 5 migration steps @ http://docs.joomla.org/Migrating_from_1.0.x_to_1.5_Stable
  11. I have installed the migrator and the fireboard ETL’s. After that I create A SQL Dump. Now I must create a new 1.5 install and import everything.
  12. Note: You can now download your SQL dump file and upload it into your Joomla! 1.5 installation to continue the process. Don’t forget to select migration and use the prefix ‘jos_’ (this migrator rewrites your prefix to jos_ even if the sites prefix is different).
  13. I found a small community builder howto @ http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-15/migrating-to-joomla-15/
  14. * Step 1: Export the Community Builder database tables from 1.0
    * Step 2: Download administrator / components / com_profiler / ue_config.php
    * Step 3: Install CB on the 1.5 site:
    * Step 4: Delete the CBt database tables on 1.5 and import the old tables from 1.0
    * Step 5: Upload the old ue_config.php to administrator / components / com_profiler / ue_config.php
  15. For expose I can install the latest version. The copy the ../components/com_expose/expose/img and xml folders to the new site. That as very easy 🙂
  16. For the CB Profile pictures I copy images/comprofiler to the new site.
  18. .. to be continued

Template fix:

Extensions > Module manager > Top Menu (or any other menu, e.g. Main Menu) > click to Edit this module > select Position = user3. Save the configuration and go to the frontpage. You should see your Artisteer style applied to the menu items.

And first assign another default template and then your template

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Speed up your firefox

How longer you use firefox how slower the automatic search will be. There is a plugin thats defragment the search database.

Quote Vacuum Places Improved 1:

Defragments your Firefox “Places” database (history/bookmarks)
This greatly reduces the lag while typing in the address bar and the start-up time.
This extension features configurable automatic cleaning, periodic reminder, and internationalization.

URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/13878

Terminal server memory solutions

Many terminalservers have an memory problem. You easily can write a fix for it with a simple but powerful Windows 2003 server resource kit tool.

  • Then copy empty.exe from the resource kit to c:\scripts\freemem or something
  • Write a batch file c:\scripts\freemem\freemem.bat

Example batch file:

@echo off

c:\scripts\freemem\empty.exe iexplore.exe
c:\scripts\freemem\empty.exe outlook.exe
c:\scripts\freemem\empty.exe winword.exe

Run this script every 30 minutes en you have al lot of extra memory to spent 🙂

Also add the /PAE to your boot.ini to get 700mb extra (if you have 4 gig of ram). See this support article

Good luck!

What Ports do I need to open on my Firewall?

August 20, 2008 by Curtis Johnstone

The first question often asked when exposing OCS functionality to the Internet is “what ports do I need to open on my firewall?”.

The answer depends on which Edge functionality (and the associated Role), being exposed to the Internet. Below is a concise recap of the default Ports that need to be opened to expose specific OCS functionality to remote users (on the Internet).

Edge Role

Functionality

External F/W Port

Internal F/W Port

Protocol

Reverse Proxy

Address Book, File Download, etc…

443

443

HTTP(S)

Access

Remote IM and Presence, Federation, Public IM

443, 5061

5061

SIP/MTLS

Web Conferencing

External Web Conf Participation

443

8057

PSOM/MTLS

Audio/Video Conferencing

External A/V Conf Participation

443, 3478, 50,000-59,999

443, 5062, 3478

STUN

Chapter 2.3 of the Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Edge Server Deployment Guide provides more detail, including the associated Firewall policies.