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[billrust Friend billrustJoin date: March 2011Posts: 121Downloads:35Uploads:13 Thanks: 15 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

#163210

I have tried this 3 times now, and gotten the same results each time. This, after a week of trying to manually install and configure this template have me at my wits end!

Before you look at the site, please know I have an html splash page up in the root, so no one can see the site unless they know to add /index.php. This is the only way I know how to work on my site without people seeing the pages.

Site is here – http://www.themiamivalley.com/index.php
Joomla 1.6 – JA Methys Template, Quickstart

ONe or more of the components or modules is not installing, the image rotator and the area below the rotator. If these need to be manually added and configured let me know what else there is I need to do please.

Thanks,
Bill

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#388118

Take a look at the below screenshot from your Joomla back end and you will see that many folders that are required to be writable by the script are not writable. You will need to correct this for the script to work. Try enabling the Joomla ftp layer or adjust the permissions/ownership of your files/folders

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[billrust Friend billrustJoin date: March 2011Posts: 121Downloads:35Uploads:13 Thanks: 15 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

#388120

<em>@phill luckhurst 236398 wrote:</em><blockquote>Take a look at the below screenshot from your Joomla back end and you will see that many folders that are required to be writable by the script are not writable. You will need to correct this for the script to work. Try enabling the Joomla ftp layer or adjust the permissions/ownership of your files/folders

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Hi Phil, thanks for the quick reply!

I installed this using the quickstart, and would have thought the install script would have changed the necessary permissions. I will go make all of them writeable, but can you tell me please, once I do that, what else will I need to do to bring the install to a completed working state?

Run the installer again once I have changed permissions?

Thanks,
Bill

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#388125

No, once permissions are correct the script should work. Currently it is trying to create files and folders but is unable to, hence the error messages.

When you run a script such as a Joomla install permissions are set by your server. It all depends on how your server is setup as to whether the settings will work. In this case when you have ftp’d the files to your server the ownership of those files will be whatever your server decided the ownership should be for the ftp account. The script may have a different ownership group so it does not have the correct permission to do anything with those files. It is there for security reasons but can be a right royal pain in the butt especially if you do not have a good host that will help out at times like this.

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[billrust Friend billrustJoin date: March 2011Posts: 121Downloads:35Uploads:13 Thanks: 15 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

#388127

<em>@phill luckhurst 236405 wrote:</em><blockquote>No, once permissions are correct the script should work. Currently it is trying to create files and folders but is unable to, hence the error messages.

When you run a script such as a Joomla install permissions are set by your server. It all depends on how your server is setup as to whether the settings will work. In this case when you have ftp’d the files to your server the ownership of those files will be whatever your server decided the ownership should be for the ftp account. The script may have a different ownership group so it does not have the correct permission to do anything with those files. It is there for security reasons but can be a right royal pain in the butt especially if you do not have a good host that will help out at times like this.</blockquote>

I gotcha, that makes perfect sense! When I FTP up, evidently everything gets set to 755 or lower, and that’s the case here. Ok good deal.

I made all those folders writeable, and it all seems to be working Ok now.

Thanks Phil, you have been a great help, and my frustration level is now back at “minimum”…lol

Bill

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#388139

Pleasure,

As for your landing page there is no need to do that. In Joomla you can simply put the site in offline mode. You would then have to login to see your site. Once you have the cookie on your local machine other will not be able to see it but you will, they will just get whatever offline message you decide to display.

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