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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 10 November 2012 16:55 CST

Wednesday, 07 November 2012 14:43 CST

nemmar
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.7
PHP version: 5.3.15
MySQL version: 5.5.24-cll
Host: dedicated server
Admin Tools version: 2.4.1

Description of my issue:
I read through your help page at: https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/admin-tools/web-application-firewall.html#waf-configure
But I did not find a clear answer to my following questions. Here are my settings in AT Pro > Configure WAF > Visual Fingerprinting Protection >
- Block tmpl=foo system template switch - YES
- List of allowed tmpl= keywords - COMPONENT,SYSTEM,RAW
- Block template=foo site template switch - YES
- Allow site templates - NO

1) Should I have a disallow in my robots.txt to prevent the "raw" URL pages from being crawled using Disallow: /*type=raw$
I noticed the "raw" pages had been indexed by Google and I don't want them indexed since I don't know what those Joomla site pages are for.

2) In AT Pro > .htaccess Maker > System Configuration >
2a) For the setting of: Host name for HTTPS requests (withOUT/WITH https://)
Do I use main domain or subfolder URL when I have a Joomla site in a subfolder of the root directory? For example, if the site is located at www.mydomain.com/testing-site/ then should this HTTPS setting be www.mydomain.com or www.mydomain.com/testing-site (with no ending slash?

2b) Do I use www.SUBdomain.mydomain.com for this setting when I have a subdomain for the Joomla site installation at www.subdomain.mydomain.com?

3) I have the Mosets Tree Directory extension on my Joomla site. However, since I have AT Pro set to block tmp page/URLs access, I cannot access some pages to make config changes in Mosets Tree. For example, the following MT FAQ page is one example for increase the maximum number of characters allowed in MT search http://www.mosets.com/help/kb/mosets-tree/67
Is the only way to access pages like this is to first disable AT Pro?

4) In .htaccess Maker > Optimisation and Utility >
I have the setting of "Yes" for "Redirect index.php to site's root" but the site still uses the index.php in all the URLs. I don't have the setting of "No" for the Global Config > SEO Setting s > Use URL rewriting, because I don't want to use Apache rewriting for my URLs. I was just wondering why AT Pro is not redirecting/removing the index.php in the URLs if I have this AT Pro setting to "Yes".


Thank you for any advice on these questions!

Wednesday, 07 November 2012 15:06 CST

nicholas
1. robots.txt is a non-binding suggestion for search engines. They are free to ignore it (and they will). The kind of query you want to specify won't work anyway. Plus, it won't work in subdirectories. Don't bother. Google, Bing et al are smart enough to figure out when a page is accessible with a non-SEF and a SEF URL and present only the latter in search results.

2.a. www.mydomain.com without https:// in front. Set "Base directory of your site" to /testing-site

2.b. www.subdomain.mydomain.com You need to use the exact domain name.

3. "since I have AT Pro set to block tmp page/URLs access" No idea what you mean.

4. This is not what this feature is about. You need to go to your site's Global Configuration and set "Use URL rewriting" to Yes. Please read Joomla!'s own documentation.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Saturday, 10 November 2012 15:55 CST

nemmar

Nicholas,

2b: I attached a screenshot of my settings in .htaccess Maker for System Configuration for my subdomain site. I have the subdomain for the HTTP/HTTPS request settings and just a backslash for the Base Directory setting. However, my subdomain site is located in a subfolder of the main root of the server folders, such as:

/abc-directory/subsite2

So I am also correct to only use the backslash for the Base Directory for this subdomain? (See attached screenshot)

 

4: Okay, I don't want to use the Joomla Global Config for URL rewrites. So should I still have the .htaccess Maker > Optimisation and Utility > setting of "Yes" for "Redirect index.php to site's root"?

What does that setting in AT Pro do since you mentioned it's not what that feature is about?

Thanks for any advice!

Saturday, 10 November 2012 16:17 CST

nemmar
Nicholas,

I forgot to ask about adding Akeeba Backup Pro to my current subscription. I want to buy the AB Pro subscription also but can you pro-rate the expiration date and price so that both my AT Pro and AB Pro subscriptions will renew on the same day each year?

That way I can pay the fee for both renewals at the same time. My AT Pro subscription expires on 2013-08-20 so you can reduce the AB Pro price to expire on that date, or I can add the additional months to my AT Pro current subscription so it expires on 2013-11-11 if I buy AB Pro tomorrow.

Let me know which is better for you.

Thanks.

Saturday, 10 November 2012 16:55 CST

nicholas
2.b. The location of the subdomain on disk is indifferent. It all matters which URL you use to access the subdomain. If the URL is http://www.plumbers.nemmar.com then you just need to leave a slash in the directory. If you access it as http://www.plumbers.nemmar.com/subsite2 then the directory must read /subsite2. If you access it as http://www.plumbers.nemmar.com/abc-directory/subsite2 then the directory must read /abc-directory/subsite2. I believe you get the picture.

4. No, you don't need it. It's a personal preference. It does exactly what it says. If someone tries to access http://www.example.com/index.php it will redirect them to http://www.example.com (without the index.php). It's just there to make the URL pretty.

can you pro-rate the expiration date and price so that both my AT Pro and AB Pro subscriptions will renew on the same day each year?

No. That would require making a manual payment order to you which would be payable by bank transfer only. The bank transfer charges are 30-50 Euros and I would charge an extra 5 Euros for the manual payment (this is to cover the hassle of having to calculate the exact fair price based on all of your subscriptions, the discounts you'd get and so on – a good 20 minutes of manual work). Besides, we do send you an email 30 and 15 days prior to your subscription's expiration, it's not like you're going to forget :) What's more, if you do renew early you get a discount (30% or 15%, depending on how early you renew) and you don't lose a single day of your subscription time.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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