[Qgis-community-team] joomla-version

[Otto Dassau]

Hi (Stephan), 

I just found that we (probably) get in trouble using joomla 1.5, because the
"new" server only provides PHP 5.0.4 and this causes various problems as far as
I found on several web pages. 

e.g.: The joomla 1.5 installation guide says: "Do not use PHP 4.3.9, PHP 4.4.2
or PHP 5.0.4" -> http://help.joomla.org/content/view/1938/310/ 

For joomla 1.0 everything seems to be fine. As far as I found out the server is
a fedora core 4, php 5.0.4, mysql 4.1.20. This is like joomla 1.0 not new but
stable, so it might fit very well? ;-).

So if you don't mind too much, I would propose to use latest 1.0 version for the
web pages, because this would be secure, cause less work and probably trouble,
especially because there are other projects (GRASS,GDAL,...) using the
ressources, too.

If you agree (especially Stephan), I would be happy and can start to prepair
everything :). Otherwise I can of course contact the SAC and try to find another
solution. But they already told me, that thei support for our server is pretty
limited and small from their side.

kind regards,
 Otto

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:57:08 +0200
Stephan Reber <stephan.reber at sr-gis.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have searched for information about the two joomla versions. The main
> security problems of joomla in general are extensions and wrong
> settings. This is indepedant from the used version. Here is a overview
> of the points about security and the support I found.
> 
> Joomla1.0:
> 
>     * long time experience with security problems
>     * stable
>     * many extensions with experience about their security
>     * only security patches for a certain time (depends on how long 1.0
>       is widely used, there isn't a deadline yet)
>     * there is no update to newer versions of PHP and MySQL in the future
> 
> Jooma1.5
> 
>     * new security architecture (short time experience)
>     * stable
>     * fewer extensions (unsecure?)
>     * support for a longer time
>     * PHP5 works good, PHP4 may cause some problems (performance, stability)
>     * there will be support of newer versions of PHP and MySQL
>     * with the update to 1.6 (in the last quarter of 2008) there will be
>       a access control list and only support of PHP5.2+.
> 
> I hope, this will help us with the decision. I tried to be neutral,
> though I argumented for the newer version in my last emails. But it is
> not so important for me which version we use, as long as the website
> works fine.
> 
> Regards
> Stephan
> 
> 
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