While it is easy to detect what version of Joomla a site is running, it is not as easy to detect what revision a site is running. By this, I mean that you can easily tell if the site is running 1.0.x or 1.5.x. It is not as easy to detect if a site is running 1.5.8 vs 1.5.9. As much as I would love to share the ins and outs of detecting revisions, that would be very bad to make publicly known. Why, you ask? Well, if you can read this, so can hackers. Joomla! is not perfect. Like any software, there have been security flaws that have been dealt with. For those administrators that have not kept up with the upgrades like they should have, it would give hackers an upper hand on which sites to target.
Okay, now onto the good stuff! The easiest way to determine if a site is using Joomla! or not is to view the source code of the page.
By default, all Joomla! 1.5.x sites will have the following in the head of their site:
<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" />
And, Joomla! 1.0.x sites will have the following:
<meta name="Generator" content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." />
This method is not full proof as I know a lot of people that remove it.
The second easiest way to determine if a site is using Joomla! or not is to type "/administrator" in the address bar after the URL.
Site using Joomla! 1.5.x should have a header that looks similar to this:
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