Joomla

Joomla is a CMS system based on php.

History

• to get Joomla's version from the filesystem:

egrep '(\$DEV_LEVEL|\$RELEASE)' libraries/joomla/version.php 

• Mambo 1
• Joomla 1.0
• [...]
• Joomla 1.0.21
• Joomla 1.5
• [...]
• Joomla 1.5.26
• Joomla 1.6
• Joomla 2.5

tricks

Themes

• view site with different template:

http://www.site.com/?template=rhuk_milkyway

JUpgrade

• upgrading from 1.5.22 to 1.7: need some dependencies:
  • php5-curl

password recover

• this will add a user admin2 with password secret , just change it as soon as you log in again into it

SQL code for use with Joomla 1.6.xxTemplate:JVer 2.5.xTemplate:JVer 3.0.xTemplate:JVer

INSERT INTO `jos_users`
   (`name`, `username`, `password`, `params`)
VALUES ('Administrator2', 'admin2',
    'd2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKHx6dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199', '');
INSERT INTO `jos_user_usergroup_map` (`user_id`,`group_id`)
VALUES (LAST_INSERT_ID(),'8');

SQL code for use with Joomla 1.5.xxTemplate:JVer

INSERT INTO `jos_users`
   (`name`, `username`, `password`, `usertype`, `gid`, `params`)
VALUES ('Administrator2', 'admin2',
    'd2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKHx6dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199',
    'Super Administrator', 25, '');
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_aro`
VALUES (NULL, 'users', LAST_INSERT_ID(), 0, 'Administrator2', 0);
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map`
VALUES (25, '', LAST_INSERT_ID());

SQL code for Joomla 1.x passwd: "admin".

UPDATE mos_users SET password = '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3' WHERE username='admin'


INSERT INTO `jos_users` VALUES 
    (161, 'Administrator3', 'admin3', 'abc@defg', '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3',  
    'Super Administrator', 0, 1, 25, '2005-09-28 00:00:00', '2005-09-28 00:00:00', '', '');# 1 row affected.
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_aro` VALUES (111,'users','161',0,'Administrator3',0);# 1 row affected.
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map` VALUES (25,'',111);# 1 row affected.