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So you've just installed a new component, module or plugin, or made some other change to your site's PHP code. You've enabled it on the Joomla backend and configured its settings just right. Then you browsed to your web site's home page and found that there is only a blank page displayed, a white screen with nothing else. Don't panic, you just have a PHP error.

Upload module - Failed. There is already a file called /home/folder/www/modules/blah_blah_blah.php - Are you trying to install the same CMT twice?

This is an error I have run into several times with Joomla 1.0.x. You go to install a module, apparently one you've already installed previously. I've been frustrated with this before, and I know many others have as well. It's a very simple problem (which highlights a bug in Joomla's module handling, but will probably never be fixed in the 1.0.x version of the CMS) and luckily it has a simple solution.

It can be very easy to add quotes or an apostrophe to the title of a new article, but don't do it! For example, I could have made the title of this article Don't Use Quotes or Special HTML Characters in Your Article Titles but I resisted using that apostrophe. Several plugins and components process the data stored in the title, title alias, meta description and meta keywords and do not always account for quotes or special characters so it is a good idea to avoid them. 

This problem is inherent from the earliest versions of Joomla! and are related to the handling of the Itemid. This solution should work for any Joomla! website that displays the error because there aren't proper menu links to the specific content. There are many open tickets throughout the net in regards to this problem, this should work in some cases.

Many websites put Google Adsense or other forms of advertising directly in their forums. It's often a good idea to put ads directly before or after specific forum posts but it can be hard to write the code to place the ads correctly. Fireboard makes it easy by placing module positions within the forum component. Here's how you can place Adsense ads directly in your Fireboard forums.