Comments on: How to Enable Legacy Mode in Joomla! 1.5

By: Bas

Bas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:25:08 +0000

If you can’t access the backend administration anymore because legacy is turned off, you can edit it in the database.
Go to _plugings, scroll to System – Legacy, and change the value of ”published” to 1.
Then it should work again.

By: Tooshy

Tooshy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:49:28 +0000

Thank you, you resolved for me an error that really bugged me for days and I managed to knew that it was because of templated but didn’t know what to do until I read your article.Really thanks alot again

By: Jason Hotham

Jason Hotham — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:31:51 +0000

Hi I’ve just come across this while doing my rounds search for a solution to this problem. Working on clients site, I found on my local machine switch on and off the legacy mode is a breeze. Especially when you need to be in legacy mode just to install certain plugins. When i went online i found the plugin line for the legacy plugin was greyed out. It was so odd. What a waste of time I had trying to resolve the issue, because I tried another browser which I had to login to of course, there it was! It was ok, so i could enable the legacy mode! Then I realised it was greyed out again, but in the same browser this time, which was after I had installed the plugin that i needed to be in legacy mode for. So then I logged out and back in again and it was fine again. So then I could disable legacy mode again. How flipping wierd is that!

By: Mohammad Arif Hossen

Mohammad Arif Hossen — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:46:56 +0000

Thanks for your graphical tutorial.

By: Les

Les — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:02:11 +0000

thanks a million – great advice!

By: prompol

prompol — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:31:40 +0000

I can not see the pulgin -legacy in plugin manager. how to install it without interfear the existing web template (retry install sample dat)? Thank you inadvance.

By: Hevn

Hevn — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:19:15 +0000

Great, it saved a lot of work for me…

By: vishwa

vishwa — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:30:21 +0000

Your Extension appears to be written for an older version of Joomla!. You must enable the System – Legacy Plugin in the Plugin Manager if you wish to complete this task.

thanks .!

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Super Make Money Methods — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:12:36 +0000

Thank you for your post. i have this problem and now it is fixed ! Great help for me and save me lot of time.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:53:12 +0000

With the error message…
“Direct Access to this location is not allowed.”
I Cannot open the admin backend! Your post started out down that track but then gave no info about how to set 1.0 compatibility in this situation. I assume there are db changes that can be done?

By: dunlet

dunlet — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:22:50 +0000

Thx.

Forgot it in the run
Now i can get back to my arcade site ;D

By: Henk

Henk — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:02:09 +0000

Thanks for your information. It’s great !

By: b

Tue, 05 May 2009 10:42:15 +0000

for those who have problems with the fact that the System-legacy appears grey and not clicable:
access the plugin manager not from the install plugin-> plugin tab but from the top menu:
top menu > extensions (drop down) > plugin manager
there it should be selectable

By: Antanas

Antanas — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:34:46 +0000

Thanks for this, i nearly gave up on joomla coz of this.

By: Eliana M.

Eliana M. — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:14:13 +0000

thanks…. a lot.

By: tdog

tdog — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:11:52 +0000

thanks very much