Remove the Joomla! meta generator tag

In order to remove the Joomla! generator tag <meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" /> from every page of your Joomla 1.5.x website, you need to alter one line of PHP in the following file to help boost security by hiding Joomla! advertising on your site:

public_html/libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php

Change the following code found at approximately line 83

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$strHtml .= $tab.'<meta name="generator" content="'.$document->getGenerator().'" />'.$lnEnd;

To:

83
 
//$strHtml .= $tab.'<meta name="generator" content="'.$document->getGenerator().'" />'.$lnEnd;

The double forward slash comments out the line that inserts the meta generator tag from the header of your website.

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