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[fixyourtech Friend fixyourtechJoin date: October 2014Posts: 48Downloads:2Uploads:0 Thanks: 8 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

#160700

Site:
http://fixyourtech.com/

I am unable to install any plugins or components.
I am using joomla 1.6.

<blockquote>JFile: :write(/home/fixyourt/public_html/tmp/install_4d67cd2b745f0/admin/admin.authyubikey.php): Error Unknown whilst opening a file
Unable to write entry</blockquote>

Thanks in Advance

-Zasch

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

#378480

Please check your file permissions for the tmp folder. The error is tating that the script cannt write to that folder.

[fixyourtech Friend fixyourtechJoin date: October 2014Posts: 48Downloads:2Uploads:0 Thanks: 8 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

#378489

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

#378492

And therin lies your answer. It looks like the extension is copied to the tmp director then where does it go when it is being Installed? How does a module get written to the modules directory if that directory is unwritable? Please chmod all those directories so they can be written to by the script and you should be good to go.

[fixyourtech Friend fixyourtechJoin date: October 2014Posts: 48Downloads:2Uploads:0 Thanks: 8 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

#378497

Yes giving all those directories 777 is the only way to make them writable since I am on a shared server.
I also had to turn off ftp file layer which is very buggy.
Obviously this is a security risk, but luckily i have admin tools pro which can change permissions back and forth with a few clicks.

Thanks A bunch :laugh:

-Zach

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

#378505

Try 755 instead. If you have the facility then change the ownership of the folders rather than going for 777. If you don’t know about ownerships and what the three figures actually mean we have a nice guide over at coppermine – http://documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/en/install_permissions.htm#chmod

As you can see if you can “CHOWN” the files and folders to something the server has full permissions for then if the first digit is set to a 7 then the script will be able to write to it.

For example on a server I use runing the command “chown -R www-data.www-data /www/myfolder” will put all the files and folders in www/myfolder to be owned by and in the group for www-data. The www-data on this server is a special group that is set for any files written by scripts on the server. The -R part means the ownerships will be set recursively.

[fixyourtech Friend fixyourtechJoin date: October 2014Posts: 48Downloads:2Uploads:0 Thanks: 8 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

#378514

i don’t have ssh access, it is a shared server.
that said the folders are always 755 when I am not installing and changing stuff.

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

#378516

Then you could try enabling the Joomla ftp layer. That should get around the problem.

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