cannot install packages!

[neer2005]

hey i have smf 2.0 RC3 installed on my site at hxxp:insaneiph0ne.co.cc [nonactive] and whenever I attempt to install a package it is succesful but then nothing happens and I know that its not installing any because I have tried more than 1 package. Any help please? Thanks - neer

[navarretemarce]

I had the same problem too... but solved now. The package manager of SMF 2.0 seems to be really temperamental.
Please check your php configuration... it is mod_secturity off?
Also check for file ownerships and permission.
What mod are you trying to install?

[neer2005]

i was trying to install curve mobile mod, simple portal, proxy block....
can you please explain to me what mod_security is?
and Im pretty sure all the permissions in the packages folder are 777 same with the temp folder

[Kill Em All]

Ask your host to see if they have mod_security enabled. They will know what you mean.
Having problems with mod_security?

[navarretemarce]

Check also your error log and post it here...
You can also try as follow...
1.- Uninstall all mods
2.- Delete the uploaded mods
3.- Try with only one simple mod..
4.- Upload it via FTP *NOT form the admin panel*
5.- Look at the mod praser and take note of the files that the mod needs to modify.
6.- Take note of the actual permission of this files. Especially those located at your-site.com/sources
7.- Change the permission of those files to 777.
8.- Install the mod.
9.- Works?
9.- Return the files permission to its original.

Let us know how goes  .

[Kill Em All]

Those are a lot of unnecessary steps navarretemarce. Just start with step 3.

edit: as a general rule, all folders should be CHMOD to 755 and all files should be CHMOD to 644.

[navarretemarce]

Thanks  Kill Em All,
by sure many of the steps may be unesesary... are there only for extra security.
I think that uninstalling the mods before make sense.
In case of during this "phantom" installation some files were modified, that may ensure that this changes are reverted.

[Kill Em All]

Well quite a few mods also doesn't uninstall cleanly. So the chances of having a mod that don't is quite likely, in which reintalling that mod will cause problems again.