This was a full website rebuild, replaced the outdated site with with a fresh Joomla installation, imported users and content from database, installed a RocketTheme template, and extensions, Gantry Framework, Community Builder, and CB Subs to manage users, membership and subscriptions to allow paying users to access premium content.
This job involved installing a new site built by another web developer on the clients hosting, removing vulnerable extensions, replacing hacked core Joomla code with overrides, updating the Joomla version, along with the template and all extensions, implementing additional site security measures, along with automated daily site backups.
This consisted of; replacing a compromised WHM/Cpanel VPS web server, building and configuring a new VPS, installing and configuring Plesk, a firewall, and virus scanner, configuring Apache, Nginx and PHP, mailservers, nameservers, DNS, transferring infected sites, malware removal updating the Joomla version on 18 sites, along with all of the templates and all extensions, implementing additional site security measures, along with automated daily site backups.
This project involved installing a Joomla site backup from Windows hosting on Linux hosting which presented all kinds of problems which were resolved, the work included;