404 Not Found error pages are often the most visited pages on a site. Yet, they do nothing to help visitors find information or to encourage them to stay on your web site. In this tutorial we look at how to use cPanel to set up a custom 404 Not Found page and how to make it look the same as the rest of your Mambo (or Joomla) web site.

This tutorial is the second in the series on how to create a custom 404 error page within Mambo. Here, we look at how to set up IIS to send the correct header responses and how to tell it to use your custom 404 as the default 404 page.

In this tutorial we look at the risks of leaving your server's directories exposed and how to turn off directory listing using htaccess for both privacy and security.

Some simple tips that apply to all Mambo sites for improving performance. A must read for any administrator of a Mambo web site.

This tutorial explains FTP and how to use it to transfer your Mambo files to your server or change Mambo file permissions once the files are uploaded to the server. Links are provided to popular FTP clients.

My guide to .htaccess has been very popular on both the Mambo and Joomla! forums. Due to popular demand, I am reprinting it here for you.
.htaccess files are "distributed configuration files" and provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. What you can put in .htaccess files is determined by the AllowOverride [...]

In this tutorial we look at how to turn off MySQL Strict Mode. By default, MySQL5 is enabled with strict_mode ON.
Mambo currently does not fully support MySQL5.x in strict_mode (this is on the roadmap and will be dealt with when we move to database portability so Mambo will run on other database servers, not just [...]

This tutorial shows you how to determine Absolute Path for your Mambo web site.
When uploading from a local testing server to a web server the absolute path also needs to be updated.
The absolute path is the directory where Mambo is located on the server hard drive.
This small PHP script will report the actual absolute path.
Make [...]

How do you go about finding out your version of PHP, or other server applications running on your server? Here's how…
If you need to check which version of PHP your site is running on, or what your session.save_path is, whether register_globals are on or not, or any other server information about your site, create a [...]

This tutorial deals with "session save path" warning messages that you may encounter in setting up your Mambo CMS website.
session save path Unwriteable
orsession save path Not Set
Session.save_path is a PHP directive which needs to be set in your PHP configuration settings (the php.ini file). It is unusual to encounter problems with this in a shared [...]