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MD5 hash generator
Joomla admin password recovery
There is no way to recover your Joomla admin or any other user password. You need to reset your password by entering the MD5 hash value of your new password into your MySQL database. You find details instruction on how to do this with phpMyAdmin in the Joomla documentation.
Below is a handy form generating md5 hash values on the fly.
Robots Meta Tag in Joomla 1.5
If you like to change the robots meta tag in Joomla 1.5, go to line 63-65 in:
Changing file ownership after Joomla upgrade
Simple shell script for Joomla hosting providers to update Joomla sites on their linux server
After you upgreaded all your Joomla sites on your server using my Joomla upgrade script, you may want to change file ownership back to the individual user. The reason is that new files in an upgrade package will belong to root if you executed the Joomla upgrade script.
Updating many Joomla sites on server level
Simple shell script for Joomla hosting providers to update Joomla sites on their linux server
It is an ongoing task for Joomla site administrators to keep their sites secure with the latest version of Joomla. The normal procedure is to upload the zipped patch file into your Joomla root directory on your server, extract the patch file and the job is done.