Generally, the ways to check the Joomla versions would be the same for any version of it. Below would be the example for Joomla 3.x and 2.5.x

Joomla 2.5.x

From Joomla application administrative dashboard:

• Log in the backend of your website.
• Go to Site → System Information: this screen contains all system information you may need, the Joomla! version currently running, and also PHP, database versions and so on.

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 1. ‘Administrator” back end access

2. Once you have login at the main dashboard page at your left panel you will see “CONFIGURATION” click on “Global“.

3. Once you are inside the “Global Configuration” page click on the “Server” Tab. At the bottom right corner you will see “Mail Setting” section.

4. At the “Mail Settings” section click on the “Mailer” drop down and select “SMTP“.

5. Once you’ve click on the drop down you will see more settings appear and as our server required “SMTP Authentication” Please click “Yes”

6. You will see more option appear on the “Mail Settings” section as per below:-

7. Enter all the information listed below and click “Sent Test Mail” than once successful click “Save”

a. “From Email”

b. “From Name”

c. “SMTP Hosts”

d. “SMTP Username”

e. “SMTP Password”

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Joomla Force HTTPS(secure browsing using SSL)

Note: we used Joomla 3 in this tutorial, for Joomla 2.5, it’s the same.

Step 1: configure your configuration.php file

Open your configuration.php file

Find the following line:

var $live_site =”;

Replace with:

var $live_site = ‘https://www.your-domain.com’;

Next, open .htaccess file then add the following code to the bottom of the file.

1. RewriteEngine On
2. RewriteCond %{HTTPS} OFF
3. RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

Step 2: enable Force SSL in your Joomla site

In the Admin Panel, navigate through System >> Global Configuration or simply click the Global Configuration button.

Access Global Configuration in the back-end setting

Within the Server tab, in the Server Settings section, there are 3 Force SSL alternatives that you can select, namely:

• None: SSL will not be enabled in your Joomla site.
• Administrator Only: connections to your administrator will be on HTTPS.
• Entire Site: connections all over your website will be on HTTPS.

Configure Joomla Force SSL

Hit the Apply/Save button. You are done now! So let’s check your site now.

Joomla Force SSL is enabled

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