Joomla 3: How to Track User Login History and Activity (IP Address/User/Action/Date)

Joomla 3: How to Track User Login History and Activity (IP Address/User/Action/Date)

Joomla 3.9 introduced user action logs, a Joomla core feature that tracks registered site users actions such as logins, backend activity, and more. User action logs are useful for tracking forensic activity over a period of time. By default, user action logs only track Joomla based actions and do not track actions of 3rd party components...

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Fix: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL.

Fix: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL.

You may receive the following error quickly (re-rendering the page it disappears) if trying to browse a Joomla 3 based web site.   Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL.  





The error is related to not being able to connect to the MySQL site database. This can...

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How To: MediaWiki Enable SEO Friendly URLs Remove Index.php

How To: MediaWiki Enable SEO Friendly URLs Remove Index.php

Enabling SEO Url’s in MediaWiki is simple. This guide will walk you through doing so in an Apache webserver configuration.1. Open LocalSettings.php located in your media wiki document root.2. Add the following lines of code:





$wgArticlePath = "/$1"; $wgUsePathInfo = true; $wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse = false; 3. Create a .htaccess file. Simply create a new text file...

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Fix: Akeeba Database Restoration Error: COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci

Fix: Akeeba Database Restoration Error: COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci

Using the latest version of Akeeba Backup, you may receive the following error while trying to restore your database: Database restorationAn error occurred while restoring the database. The error message can be found below. Click on the × button at the top right of this dialog message to close it and return to the database restoration...

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Fix: Database Connection Error (2): Could not Connect to MySql

Fix: Database Connection Error (2): Could not Connect to MySql

When you render a Joomla hosted website, you might see the following message indicating either you reached the maximum SQL connections or your SQL Database has crashed or become unavailable.  Database connection error (2): Could not connect to MySQL.   Here are some things that COULD have happened to cause this error: A table in your database memory...

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