How to remove meta tag “generator” in Joomla?

Waqas Kamran — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:39:04 +0000

Joomla uses following “generator” meta tag in HEAD for identification. You might be interested in removing it for security reasons.

In this article you will learn two methods (easy and difficult) so you will be able to change it or simply remove it.

Method One:

Put following code in your template before or after the tag start

setGenerator(’Anything you want to set’); ?>

Method Two:

The file you want to edit is called head.php and is found here:
/libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php

you will want to find the following code (~line 167):
$strHtml .= $tab.’getGenerator().’” />’.$lnEnd;

you can turn it off by simply commenting the line with // at the beginning:
//$strHtml .= $tab.’getGenerator().’” />’.$lnEnd;

Recommended Method:

Method One is recommended. Because if you use method two then your changes will be gone, each time you upgrade your Joomla to newer version.

Have fun with Joomla!

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