How to install jomsocial?

singularity42

I've gone through new docs, old docs, multiple methods. None of them work. Honestly, the documentation provided is pretty terrible.
Anyone have a link or actual instructions on how to get jomsocial installed in joomla?

Ninja

singularity42
Hi. Possible you missed the doc
https://documentation.jomsocial.com/wiki/Traditional_Installation

First time installation. JS install like any other Joomla extension. If you are facing any error during install kindly provide the error screenshot we also provide one time free installation service of Jomsocial over a fresh Joomla site.

singularity42

Ninja Thanks for the reply, here is what I get:

https://i.imgur.com/NsFerJE.png

Ninja

singularity42
Hi
As per error the issue is not from JomSocial, it appear the tmp folder on your site is not writable.
Can you make sure the permission is correct and edit fields in first post to submit the site login http://prntscr.com/1e788u5

singularity42

Ninja
It is currently set to 777

drwxrwxrwx. 5 root root 199 Jul 18 21:43 tmp
The current instance is running locally, so I cant share a login.

Ninja

singularity42 Hi
As per error the issue is due to permission of tmp folder not allow to move the file.
You can put the site live so i can have a look On localhost its not possible to check since the site not reachable.

singularity42

Ninja
Look at the code output. My tmp folder is set to 777, fully writable. Do I need to set chown to something else?

Ninja

singularity42
Hi
It's not clear as site on localhost can be permission issue or PHP values from current error either package you are using is not correct or permission. Kindly put the site online so I can check it

singularity42

Ninja - Is there anyone else that can assist? I am not going to provide local access to an unsecured site. There must be better support outside of forums? Or something else you can suggest? php setting were validated in joomla, directories are set to correct chmod. What else can I try?

Ninja

singularity42
Hi
Its not about anyone, to check the cause of issue i need site access, this is normal when something not working and you will ask fix it, question is how as there is no access. Since its working fine for all possibly the issue is your installed Joomla version or local server.
Have you tried any other extension to install?

singularity42

Ninja - The folders are all showing unwritable by joomla:

https://i.imgur.com/JWFGxqQ.png

The user and group is set to the apache user:

[root@bots-vm components]# egrep -iw --color=auto 'user|group' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
# User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
# It is usually good practice to create a dedicated user and group for
User apache
Group apache
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
      LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio

chown is set to apache user and chmod is set to 755 recursively

[root@bots-vm html]# ll
total 628
drwxrwxr-x.  5 apache apache    246 Jul 18 21:36 admin
drwxrwxr-x. 11 apache apache    159 Jul  9 22:41 administrator
drwxrwxr-x.  2 apache apache     44 Jul  9 22:42 bin
drwxrwxr-x.  2 apache apache     24 Jul  9 22:42 cache
drwxrwxr-x.  2 apache apache    169 Jul  9 22:42 cli
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   2224 May 28 09:36 community.xml
drwxrwxr-x. 21 apache apache   4096 Jul 28 21:02 components
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   1977 Jul  9 22:46 configuration.php
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache 541561 Dec  2  2020 fpa-en.php
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   3708 Jul  6 06:14 htaccess.txt
drwxrwxr-x.  5 apache apache    118 Jul  9 22:42 images
drwxrwxr-x.  2 apache apache     64 Jul  9 22:42 includes
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   1420 Jul  6 06:14 index.php
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   8695 May 28 09:36 install.community3.0.php
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   4274 May 28 09:36 install.community.php
drwxrwxr-x.  4 apache apache     54 Jul  9 22:42 language
drwxrwxr-x.  4 apache apache     31 Jul 18 21:36 languages
drwxrwxr-x.  5 apache apache     70 Jul  9 22:42 layouts
drwxrwxr-x. 12 apache apache    266 Jul  9 22:42 libraries
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache  18092 Jul  6 06:14 LICENSE.txt
drwxrwxr-x.  2 apache apache      6 Jul 30 11:19 logs
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   2231 May 28 09:36 manifest.xml
drwxrwxr-x. 30 apache apache   4096 Jul  9 22:42 media
drwxrwxr-x. 27 apache apache   4096 Jul  9 22:43 modules
drwxrwxr-x. 19 apache apache   4096 Jul  9 22:43 plugins
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   4821 Jul  6 06:14 README.txt
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache    748 Jul  6 06:14 robots.txt.dist
drwxrwxr-x.  3 apache apache    127 Jul 30 11:18 site
drwxrwxr-x.  5 apache apache     68 Jul  9 22:43 templates
drwxrwxr-x.  5 apache apache    199 Jul 18 21:43 tmp
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   1970 May 28 09:36 uninstall.community.php
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 apache apache   1859 Jul  6 06:14 web.config.txt

Why are they unwritable still?

Ninja

singularity42
Hi
These should be writable. You can use akeeba admin tool to fix permission issue or from server only.
Also the installation issue will be same for all extensions as the problem is from server side permissions.

singularity42

I followed the steps below, then set the user to deamon recursively. All works now.

https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=967045#p3547566