After trying several thing I finally found the one that worked for me.  You need to edit the .htaccess file. For Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs to work in Joomla, you will need to change the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess if you have not already then turn on the RewriteBase option. Note if you are on a mac edit the file before you change it to .htaccess as the (.) will make it invisible on your system. In the file itself, you will find a line that reads #RewriteBase /  you need to change to RewriteBase /  remove the pound (#) sign. This is un-commenting the line thus making it active. Good luck.

Hope this helps someone

After dealing with a lot of .htaccess files in connection with several websites. If you uncompress a .zip or transfer the file from a web server to your desktop via FTP, the file never shows up. Thus making very difficult to edit.

A file that starts with a period is one of the files that OS X hides by default so that you don’t accidentally delete and or alter it thus messing up your file system. However, there could be times that you want access to those hidden mac files. Strangely Apple has not made easy as toggling a menu item in the Finder.

Here is a simple and free solution for you to follow the following few steps. After writing a line or two of code you’ll be able to use Apple’s Automator software to create a plugin that you can use to toggle the view of hidden files from within Finder.

After opening Automator, select Automator from within the Applications Library on the left-hand side. You’ll now see a number of different built-in actions that are available to the Automator application.

Select Run Shell Script from the list of available actions, and drag it into your workflow.

Type (or paste in) the following code into the Run Shell Script text box:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

Did you install Kunena in Joomla and the admin buttons don’t show up? In the many cases, the cause was traced to a defective/incomplete installation of Kunena. In particular, one file, somehow or other, failed to properly install.

The one file that was missing was toolbar.kunena.php. For reference for anyone else finding this, the file toolbar.kunena.php is found in the root folder of the archive (tar) and needs to go into administrator/components/com_kunena.

If this does not solve your problem then uninstall Kunena forum then download and install the .zip version and not the tar version.

So you want to keep your footer module and just delete or change the ”Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License” from Joomla1.5

In the root directory go to

> modules\mod_footer\tmpl\default.php

In this line either comment it or delete it

<div><?php echo JText::_( ‘FOOTER_LINE2′ ); ?></div>

Save and replace.

Do you have a new Joomla theme and its showing your site title “Welcome to the Frontpage” in the main body area?  And you have checked all the articles and modules but I can’t find this title.

Folow this path: joomla admin > menus > mainmenu > home > parameters (system) and set page title to hide.

So you have some Links and or buttons that do not work correctly. This is common problem and the primary solution is to switch your SEF URL’s off. Then make sure you have the right URL set under Admin-> Configuration-> Site(TAB)-> Site URL and Secure URL. You should also make sure that your configuration file also has the right URL. You’ll find it under JOOMLAROOT /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/virtuemart.cfg.php. Don’t forget the trailing slash. Also make sure you have a menu item linking to VM component and the mod_virtuemart module published.

VirtueMart does not work very well at all with Joomla SEF URL’s.  If you think that this doesn’t apply to your install, then you should reconsider; this is the first thing to do when you have some sort of linking issue. Actually they say you should never have enabled it until you are done with your site. If you want SEF URL’s, its recommended get one of the third party extensions for SEO links.

If your add to cart is not working. Then switch off your AJAX add to cart. This function is known to have major issues with other javascripts, like the ones that may be implemented in your template or in other various modules or extensions.  LOCATION: Joomla backend-> Components-> Virtuemart-> Configuration(under Admin TAB)-> Site(TAB)-> Layout(section)-> Configuration

How to enable and switch on legacy mode in Joomla 1.5? In early beta release of Joomla! 1.5 (e.g. beta1 and beta2), option to enable and turn on the legacy mode is part of the Global Configuration. However, in the latest RC release of Joomla and final gold release of Joomla 1.5, the legacy mode support has been moved to the plugin manager. Thus to enable the legacy mode, simply follow steps below to publish the Legacy Mode plug-in.

1. Login to Joomla 1.5 Site Administrator panel.
2. Mouse over Extensions in the main horizontal menu, then click on Plugin Manager.
3. Locate plugin named System – Legacy, and then click on the check box in front of it.
4. Click on Enable button.