This is a safety tip to make it a little more difficult for anyone with development knowledge to mess around with your Joomla site. The idea is to move the configuration.php file to a place different from its normal location and to rename it so it is harder to find.
To move the configuration.php file and rename it do the following:
1. Move configuration.php to a safe directory outside of public_html and rename it whatever you want. I will use the name joomla.conf in this example.
2. Create a new configuration.php file containing only the following code:
[sourcecode language='php']
<?php
require( dirname(__FILE__)b.’/../joomla.conf’ );
?>
[/sourcecode]
