and here is how

<blockquote>
  <p>testimonialtext</p>
</blockquote>
<div></div>
<p>name | <span>company</span></p>

then the css for the css file

.testimonial {
    margin: 0;
    background: #B7EDFF;
    padding: 10px 50px;
    position: relative;
    font-family: Georgia, serif;
    color: #666;
    border-radius: 5px;
    font-style: italic;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #ECFBFF;
    background-image: linear-gradient(#CEF3FF, #B7EDFF);
}

.testimonial:before, .testimonial:after {
    content: "\201C";
    position: absolute;
    font-size: 80px;
    line-height: 1;
    color: #999;
    font-style: normal;
}

.testimonial:before {
    top: 0;
    left: 10px;
}
.testimonial:after {
    content: "\201D";
    right: 10px;
    bottom: -0.5em;
}
.arrow-down {
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    border-left: 15px solid transparent;
    border-right: 15px solid transparent;
    border-top: 15px solid #B7EDFF;
    margin: 0 0 0 25px;
}
.testimonial-author {
    margin: 0 0 0 25px;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color: #999;
    text-align:left;
}
.testimonial-author span {
    font-size: 12px;
    color: #666;
}

You need to use this instead on the top line of your htaccess is preferable.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Try this

libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php

Look for the following

// Determine if the request was over SSL (HTTPS)
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && (strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) != ‘off’)) {
$https = ‘s://’;
} else {
$https = ‘://’;
}

Change

$https = ‘://’;

to

$https = ‘s://’;

First check what disk drives do you have. Usually disk drives on Linux are named /dev/sda (first HDD), /dev/sdb (second HDD) or something similar.
You can get a list of disk drives in system using this command

fdisk -l | grep ‘^Disk’
The output should be something like this:

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
So those are two 500 GB hard drives…

If you execute command like the one below you’ll get more detailed preview of your hard discs and their partitions:

fdisk -l
Output should looks like this:

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1c7e861c

Disk /dev/sdb doesn’t contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0×00080071

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14 104448 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 144 1048576 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 144 60802 487232512 83 Linux
You should notice that second hard disk (/dev/sdb) has no partition and that probably means that it’s un-partitioned yet.

So let’s make the partition on /dev/sdb by executing

fdisk /dev/sdb
and then use following in the prompt
- “n” for new partion
- “p” for primary partition
- “1” for the first partition
- “Enter” / “Enter” for the first AND last cylinders (automatically use the entire disk)
- “w” to save what I have done

That has created and saved new partition and it will be called /dev/sdb1 (first partition on /dev/sdb). Next step is to format it.

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
On newer distributions (CentOS 6.3 for eg) use this command to format a new partition.

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
If you want to use this hard disk for backup make /backup folder or if you want to use it to store more sites make new home folder called /home2

mkdir /backup
mkdir /home2
Now just mount the backup partition or the new home partition

mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
mount /dev/sdb1 /home2
Now you can use the additional hard drive for cPanel/WHM backups or storing new sites. cPanel should automatically detect /home2 and should ask you whether you like to setup new account on /home or at /home2.

If you want the partition to auto mount on server (re)boot edit fstab file located at /etc/fstab and add one of following lines at the bottom of it depending if you for /backup folder or the line below for /home2 folder:

/dev/sdb1 /backup ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /home2 ext3 defaults 0 0
Note: After adding one of these lines press add one more empty line below since fstab requires the new line symbol at the end of every config line. Before you issue the following command, be aware that this re-mounts ALL Filesystems, and will more than likely disconnect most other users

To make sure this mounts automatically, issue the following command:

mount -a
If you got no errors – your mount worked, try df -h once more to see if everything is fine

Yes its a great cms but it can be slow. Here are a few tips to increase speed and maximise your google page speed score.

1. The cache plugin, yes a plugin. Search for it i assure you its there just not widely documented. This will cache permanently all your pages, great if you dont update the site much.

2. If your site gets updated a lot or has lots of every changing content you might want to cache your homepage only, using the same method above but with a modified joomla plugin now with an added timeout, homepage only and full browser caching homepagecachepluginjoomla (21)

3. Activated Progressive caching in your global config with a timeout of around an hour.

4. Install google page speed on your server if you have a vps or dedicated, heres how.

5. A plugin to compress your html, i personally dont use it for css,js compression. You can also activate htaccess gzip via this but sometimes makes it worse, have a play HERE

6. Drop the following in your HTACCESS file

(if you see error 500, try the following, remove the deflate line and test again, if not put it back and remove the header set expires line)

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
Header set Expires “max-age=29030400, public”
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A600
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A604800
ExpiresByType text/css A604800
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType text/plain A1200
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A2592000
ExpiresByType video/x-flv A2592000
ExpiresByType application/pdf A2592000
ExpiresByType text/html A600

There may be times when you need to override the Joomla! MVC Component to add new functionality or to completely customise the component. The MVC component can be completely overridden by using the same class names that are used in the component. This is achieved by loading a system plugin before the component is dispatched by the application.

In this example we are wanting to keep the referrer redirection on the joomla login to redirect back to where you were and keep general logging in going to a page of your choice such as a my account page for your component.

To do this simply install this plugin mvcoverride (37)

Activate the plugin

Using a templating method

Override Base Component Controller

TEMPLATE_NAME/code/COMPONENT_NAME/CONTROLLER.php

Override Another Component Controller

TEMPLATE_NAME/code/COMPONENT_NAME/controllers/CONTROLLER_NAME.php

Override Models

TEMPLATE_NAME/code/COMPONENT_NAME/models/MODEL_NAME.php

Override Views

TEMPLATE_NAME/code/COMPONENT_NAME/views/VIEW_NAME/VIEW_NAME(.FORMAT).php

TEMPLATE_NAME/code/com_users/models/login.php copied from components/com_users/models/login.php

We then enter our own redirect url for none referred users on line 66

Normally it is $data['return'] = 'index.php?option=com_users&view=profile';

but we change to $data['return'] = 'whateverurlyouwant';

And hey presto we are done.

Well mod_pagespeed is the answer.

This guide will help you set this up on a Cpanel server, currently tested with centos 6 and WHM 11.34.1 (build 12) with Easy Apache 3

Firstly you will need to SSH in to your server and run the following

wget http://prajith.in/scripts/mod_pagespeed-cust-opts.tar.gz

or

wget http://chris-potter.co.uk/scripts/mod_pagespeed-cust-opts.tar.gz

then run

tar -C /var/cpanel/easy/apache/custom_opt_mods -xzf mod_pagespeed-cust-opts.tar.gz

Thats it surprisingly easy wasn’t it, now you can run

/scripts/easyapache

or

Login into WHM and go to EasyApache Update (preferably)

When rebuilding apache and php etc you will have your usually exhaustive options list.
It will show you the Mod_Pagespeed included in it and you can install it by checking the box. Go ahead and select deflate too if not already selected.

This will take a while go make a brew…………..

Ok back to it, now the fun starts.

First Restart Apache and check your site so see whats going on. Load time should be vastly improved and google page speed score too but there might be a few issues.

The global config for mod_pagespeed can be found in /usr/local/apache/conf/pagespeed.conf and it will have a few defaults in there.

Add these filters in Pagespeed.conf (path: /usr/local/apache/conf/pagespeed.conf)

ModPagespeedRewriteLevel CoreFilters
ModPagespeedEnableFilters combine_css
ModPagespeedEnableFilters combine_heads
ModPagespeedEnableFilters combine_javascript
ModPagespeedEnableFilters convert_jpeg_to_webp
ModPagespeedEnableFilters convert_png_to_jpeg
ModPagespeedEnableFilters inline_preview_images
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_css
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_javascript
ModPagespeedEnableFilters inline_css
ModPagespeedEnableFilters inline_javascript
ModPagespeedEnableFilters outline_javascript
ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images
ModPagespeedEnableFilters insert_img_dimensions
ModPagespeedEnableFilters remove_comments
ModPagespeedEnableFilters extend_cache
ModPagespeedEnableFilters remove_quotes
ModPagespeedEnableFilters make_google_analytics_async
ModPagespeedEnableFilters move_css_above_scripts
ModPagespeedEnableFilters move_css_to_head
ModPagespeedEnableFilters prioritize_visible_content
ModPagespeedEnableFilters resize_mobile_images
ModPagespeedEnableFilters sprite_images
ModPagespeedEnableFilters defer_javascript
ModPagespeedEnableFilters detect_reflow_with_defer_js
ModPagespeedEnableFilters lazyload_images

SAVE AND RESTART APACHE, do via SSH to view any errors

HTACCESS STUFF FOR MOD_PAGE SPEED

Rememember to remove the # at the start of anything you want to use.

ModPagespeedDomain sets the domain to use page speed
If you want to turn it off for development use the #dev# line

#STARTmodpagespeed
#ModPagespeedDomain http://www.domain.co.uk
#dev# ModPagespeed off
#Disable pagespeed on this folder#
ModPagespeedDisallow */administrator/*
#Disable pagespeed on this file#
#ModPagespeedDisallow */jquery-ui-1.8.2.custom.min.js
#Disable particular filters#
ModPagespeedDisableFilters lazyload_images
#Enable particular filters#
#ModPagespeedEnableFilters insert_image_dimensions,rewrite_domains,convert_jpeg_to_webp,co
#ENDmodpagespeed

IF YOU CHOSE TO ADD DEFLATE OR YOU ALREADY HAVE IT

Give this a try in your htaccess file

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
Header set Expires “max-age=29030400, public”
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A600
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A604800
ExpiresByType text/css A604800
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType text/plain A1200
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A2592000
ExpiresByType video/x-flv A2592000
ExpiresByType application/pdf A2592000
ExpiresByType text/html A600

Rackable Systems 2U Servers x3

Single Opteron Dual Core 4GB Ram, 2x 160GB SAS RAID 1 running webmin, ruby project system and bind dns

Twin Opteron Dual Cores 8GB Ram, 4x 160GB SAS RAID 0+1 running cpanel/whm for application development. Running daily,weekly,monthly backup retention to s3 buckets mirrored.

Single Sempron hacked to dual core 8GB Ram, 2x 640GB Spinpoint SATA II drives in RAID 1 running windows xp (backup, terminal server etc)

Twin Opteron Dual Cores 8GB Ram, 4x 160GB SAS RAID 0+1 running rysnc to clone first cpanel/whm server incase of failure

APC Smart-UPS 750VA USB RM 2U 230V running agent to first cpanel server to shutdown on low battery, 5 mins left on battery.

Plans to add further ups or network shutdown for rack

Images to follow once im done also there is a guide here which shows you how to setup cpanel behind another server on an internal ip

So here is the scenario i wanted to move our dev infrastructure in house servers, racks, raid etc all sorted nice and easy. Have two IP’s as i have a 150MB fibre line but one ip is for voip and other is for web so im on one external ip.

The front facing server is centos6 64 bit running webmin and ruby on which our project system is built. but i prefer to develop on cpanel.

The cpanel server is on an internal ip. the issue is to get the domains, ftp, ssh, cpanel and whm port redirections to work via the webmin server.

So here is how i did it.

(because the domains are subdomains of the host name the names of the conf files are different to doing this with a normal virtual host)

so the hostname is for example servername.domainname.com

WHM

call the file whm.subdomainname.conf

<VirtualHost internalip:80>
ServerName whm.servername.domainname.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://internalip:2086/$1 [NC,P]

</VirtualHost>

CPANEL

<VirtualHost internalip:80>
ServerName cpanel.servername.domainname.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://internalip:2082/$1 [NC,P]

</VirtualHost>

Restart apache point the cpanel.servername.domainname.com and whm.servername.domainname.com a records to your outside ip with your domain/dns provider.

Test and works like a charm. Will also verify cpanel licence no problem so your compliant.

So now i want a domain on cpanel for development so i setup an account on cpanel called dev.domainname.com

i would use this for joomla or wordpress for example.

call the file subdomainname.conf