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labels:

- 'Stage-Alpha'

- 'Type-Auth'

summary: Joomla authentication module

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Introduction

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This module allows you to authenticate against an Joomla database.

Configuration

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SQL connection paramaters are identical to those of [SQL

storage](https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_storage_sql) except for an

additional 'prefix' parameter that defaults to 'jos\_'.\_

    authentication = "joomla"

    sql = { -- See documentation for SQL storage

        driver = "MySQL";

        database = "joomla";

        host = "localhost";

        username = "prosody";

        password = "secretpassword";

        prefix = "jos_";

    }

Compatibility

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Prosody 0.8+