Recently one of my websites got hacked, luckily I had just taken a complete copy of the website files to my local drive and was able to re-upload the copied files.  However when I did the site was a bit of a mess and it took me 3 days and nights to update components, plugins and get everything working in harmony again.  I HATE HACKERS!

Due to this very annoying breech of my Joomla Security I decided to go on the hunt for additional security to make my websites more bullet-proof and also to understand how hackers got through the basic security for joomla.  I found tonnes of interesting info and compiled the following list that would make my joomla websites more secure but it seemed alot of work to manage and keep up-to-date, so I then went further to find a component to do the majority of the work for me and I found one Admin Tools.  I’ll get into Admin Tools further in my post but firstly here is the list of items recommended to keep your joomla website secure.

Joomla Installation is actually quite an easy process!

Once you have the correct tools and follow my joomla installation guide correctly. In this post I cover the tools required to install joomla along with a video tutorial of the installation process.