Joomla Install Extensions Manually Using Rsync/SSH
I’m very surprised how few solutions (How To Guides) there are out there for this issue. If you don’t use FTP to upload to your server (for security reasons), here’s how to install extension in Joomla using SSH(Rsync). That tells me the Joomla community is largely OK with FTP and getting hacked because of it. (there are certainly no shortage...