How to display more than 20 items in Joomla Admin
Dec/110
There is a default of 20 line items set in many Joomla backend administration menus – including articles, modules, plugins and the extension manager. This ‘lines per page’ can be changed but it’s not stored next time you login. Here’s how to permanently get Joomla to remember how many lines you’d like to see.
Global configuration > Site settings > List Length
This screenshot is for Joomla 1.5:
Here’s the same setting in Joomla 1.6, 1.7 and beyond. Click to enlarge.
For more on Joomla, see www.2020media.com/joomla
Installing PHP on IIS
May/091
The fastest and easiest way to install PHP on IIS is using Microsoft’s Web Platform installer. It completely automates setting up IIS, FastCGI and the latest version of PHP from the php.net site. To install it, just click this button:
Also included in the installer are ready packaged popular web applications currently including:
Drupal, DotNetNuke, Photo Gallery, Wiki, SilverStripe CMS, Umbraco and WordPress.
Now we just need Microsoft to add MySQL and we’re sorted!
Enable PING on Windows Server 2008
May/090
On your Server machine, at a command prompt, type the following
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
If you want to turn it off again later, type the following
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable



