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.

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It is safer to assume that there is high probability of making mistakes while installing your joomla 1.5 website in localhost environment. Should this happen, then it is important that you should be equipped with the right knowledge or technical information to work around the problem and restart with fresh installation of joomla 1.5 CMS in your localhost environment without any hitch.

Therefore, in this tutorial, we will go through a detail instruction on installing your joomla website the second time after failed initial installation.

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Joomla is a Content Management System software which depends heavily on database for its operation. A database is a pre-requisite component before we install JOOMLA on localhost and luckily the setting is easy and straight forward.

In this tutorial, we are going to install JOOMLA 1.5 on top of previously installed WAMP server in tutorial ‘Localhost Development’. At the end of the tutorial, you should be able to learn on how to:

• Setting up a database
• Installing and setting up JOOMLA 1.5 website

Installing and setting up you first JOOMLA website should be easy if you follow this tutorial thoroughly and your localhost website should be running and kicking by the end of the tutorial. This tutorial is separated in three sections for ease of understanding.

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When developing a website, it is useful and crucial to develop it on your localhost(your PC) prior transferring to a real server (web hosting). Although not a necessity, learn to manage a localhost website is a great starting point before you can get on your hand on real web and server environment.

Initially, you will need to setup a localhost environment before you can install and start developing your website. This tutorial will guide you on how to setup your first localhost environment.

In this tutorial, you will learn on:

• Setting up a localhost environment

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