This publication or tutorial is intended to assist you on how to populate your virtuemart shipping rate and carrier by updating your database. The benefit of using this method is that you can save time and precious man-hours in contrast of manual update through your JOOMLA  Virtuemart back-end. The method use cPanel access to your phpMyadmin and replacing existing virtuemart information inside your database. In order to use this method, you should at least:

1. Have direct access to you cPanel/Helm or other web hosting control panel which may allowed you to edit your own database;
2. Have the required SQL files that contain the information to update the database;
3. Backup all your servers' content including your database;
4. Know what this tutorial is all about and what you are doing.

As all of us have already known, joomla (in term of website backup)was built and performed on 2 basic components that are mutually related namely; (1) Database, and (2) Joomla CMS (Joomla Files and Folders). In the event of web files getting corrupted, virus attack, problem during installation of Joomla extension, being hacked or other kind of malicious attacks, manual backup and restoration of these two component could probably your remaining last hope. This Joomla support publication will show you how to do it manually yourself.

As for general guide, a basic in website management for joomla based website is the installation of joomla on your live server. This tutorial will guide you on the principal knowledge on the installation of joomla which can be applied to previous and later version of JOOMLA 1.5.xx.

Joomla Installation on live server doesn’t vary much compared to if you installed you joomla on localhost environment. Luckily, installation on live server seems to be easier to be done and will take less than 5 minutes to finish.

The common hack happened to JOOMLA based website is javascript iframe injection or Iframe hack. Although not serious in term of damage inflicted to the website, precautionary steps should be taken seriously. The nature of the attack is not just on platform based/dinamic(ie. Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, etc.) website, it also attack a static website.

Recovering from iframe injection will cost time and money. Therefore, this JOOMLA tutorial will show you how to remove and repair your JOOMLA 1.5 after being hack by iframe injection.