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Site Parameters

Server-specific configuration files

Files which modify the way your server behaves when serving your site may cause site loading issues when restoring to a new host. Use the options below to reset them to Joomla! defaults.

Directories fine-tuning

FTP Layer Options

Some shared hosts make it impossible for PHP to write to files and directories uploaded by FTP. If you are on such a host and have used FTP or Kickstart's Upload by FTP extraction option you want to configure and enable the FTP layer.

Enable the FTP layer