One of the reason for Joomla to generate message of “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded …” is with the max_execution_time settings in php.ini of web server’s root folder.

This setting can be confirmed using the following method:

Administration > Site > System Information > PHP Information > max_execution_time

If that is set to 30 seconds,then you may get the above error when installing extension via Joomla Installer.

To resolve this issue, edit the php.ini file and set max_execution_time to 60 or 90 or 120.

Once you did the changes, restart your web server will do.

Just search the Internet and found the following steps to hide your friends from your profile page in MSN

1. Sign in to profiles with your Windows Live ID.
2. Click on Privacy settings, then Advanced.
3. Under Profiles and search, click on Basic information.
4. Under Friends list, move the slider to Just me and click Save.

Telnet client is a tool useful for network trouble shooting. However, Telnet client is not install in Windows 7 by default. To install Telnet client in Windows 7, follow the following procedures:

1. Select “Programs And Features” from Control Panel
2. Select “Turn Windows features on or off”
3. Check Telnet Client
4. Hit OK

With this setting, you should be able to use Telnet client on your command – Cmd.

Having your wordpress site in your local PC will serve as a backup for the site. It also enable you to test new features in it before implemented in the production site.

Following are some steps for performing this task.

1. Using phpMyAdmin, export the database of your site. Replace the URL of original site to new URL in the exported SQL file.

2. Copy the whole wordpress directory of your site to local directory. Normally it is at:
c:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress

3. In your local server, create a new database to be used by the site. If possible, use the same database name as in your production server. You may like to refer to wp-config.php for information of the user ID & password. Configure uers access to the database using “Privileges” function of phpMyAdmin.

4. Restore the database to your local server by using the Import feature of phpMyAdmin.

5. Configure the wp-config.php file

//unless you have changed the setting, else the default will be as follow
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); //change this to the name of the database you have created earlier
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); //no password by default. Change this if you have added password during installation
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); //99% you won’t have to change this

6. To make the permalink work properly, you will need to regenerate the permalink structure in the Permalink setting page in wordpress. Click “Permalinks” under “Settings” in the wordpress configuration page. Next click on “Save Changes” will do!

Good luck!

Sometimes when importing database into MySQL, you may face with the error message of “You probably tried to upload too large file. Please refer to documentation for ways to workaround this limit.”

To resolved this issue in phpMyAdmin, you will need to increase the limit parameters in php.ini. For example, in my test site:

max_execution_time = 120 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds (def. 30)
max_input_time = 180 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data (def. 60)
memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (def. 128mb)
upload_max_filesize = 128M ; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files. (def. 2mb)
post_max_size = 16M ; (def. 8mb)

Sometimes when importing database into MySQL, you may face with the error message of “#1153 got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes”

To resolved this issue in phpMyAdmin, simply increased max_allowed_packet to 16MB in MySQL configuration file: my.ini. For example:

#max_allowed_packet = 1M
max_allowed_packet = 2M

If you happen to change the MySQL database password of Joomla, you will need to update this password information into the var $password in configuration.php in the root of your Joomla! website.

var $password = ‘new password’;

User of Joomla site hosted in Bluehost may face the issue of “Could not instantiate mail function” if Joomla is not configured properly.

To overcome this problem, under Joomla Global Configuration, PHP Mail Settings, SMTP username and password information are required in order for email to function properly in Bluehost hosting environment.

To create SMTP account, simply login to Buehost Control Panel, select Email Account from Mail setting.

After installing the Joomla! version 1.7 on xampp, the following messages was generated on my site:

Strict Standards: Accessing static property JCache::$_handler as non static in D:\xampp\htdocs\joomla\libraries\joomla\cache\cache.php on line 420

Following was solution posted on Joomla! Forum:

Open Joomla admin
go to global configuration and server
please change error reporting to SIMPLE (instead of none, as mentioned there).

It solved the issue so far. See more info on the discussion on this issue on Joomla Forum.

After maintaining few pages related to computer network, Cisco Systems and networking, I have decided to consolidate all these sites into this new domain — iPCNetworking which will focus on all issues related to these areas. Hope that by having this consolidation, I can have more time to focus on the contents for this site.

Hope you like it!