Lime
Introduction
Lime is the Default of the Webservers, if someone types seaoffate.net or www.seaofate.net this is the webserver that will be listening. It will also be listening to lime.seaoffate.local and seaoffate.local. It may also be able to have lime.seaoffate.net but that is not certain as it may not be on the cloudflare DNS yet. The Content Management System is Joomla for this server.
Joomla
Joomla has been setup and has the backup extension Akeeba Backup, the convert form and gantry with helium. JCE Editor is also available. Helium appears to work well but it will take some time to learn to get the best out of it.
Email obviously was not going to work on a ISP DHCP internet connection so I did not even try to set one up. I looked around for a free email relay service and the first one found that looked Ok and was likely to be free was Brevo. There are undoubtedly others that would offer the same but lots looked like they were going to charge money for something that I was not too concerned about, a sort of nice to have but not at any cost.
Brevo
Brevo offer a free tier of their webservices that allows 300 outgoing emails per day more than anything that I am likely to need unless the website become wildly popular but I can't see that happening any time soon. What Breva offer amongst there marketing services is a mail relay. From what I can gather they like to offer a free tier for either developers or new users to try out their marketing services. I think their is a phone type service from them as well also free but the SMS has a charge, not much of a charge though, something under £3.00 per 100 SMS to UK, maybe worth a look at some point in the future. there is a possibility of sending whatsapp from them as well but also as a chargeable thing. If I ever need to get to do some sort of marketing campaign Brevo has a lot of tools to get my words out. For now they offer what I need and that is an email relay.
Configuring Joomla to Send Email
Although the Brevo gateway was setup and port 587 was allowing traffic out of my network Joomla stubbornly refused to connect to the Brevo relay, there must be something about the security settings because with the feedback from Joomla on debug was that it was failing to authenticate. I did get Google's AI, Gemmini to write a PHP script to send an email using Brevo's connection details from outside of Joomla and that worked no problem so there must be some include line somewhere that i am missing and it joomla is including some SSL/TLS setting that are not working. Oddly Wikimedia also would not email out either although it should have been able to as well and that further reinforces the point that there is some SASL security setting that is blocking web apps but not PHP directly. Joomla forum tried to help but could not understand why it would not work either so a new direction was needed. Since PHP can connect to Brevo there is no firewall rule missing or anything like that so I tried installing Postfix.
