Can anyone shed some light my way as to why SMF 1.1 RC2 is not accepting any mods via the Package Manager? It's happening to me on 2 different hosts (Pair.com & Lypha.com).
The initial install went fine via the SMF FTP server, then it choked on the security upgrade and gave me same error below, but after 3 days the Package Manager worked and installed fine. I thought I got lucky and tried to install a mod, but no luck. Same error below.
Does anyone know what is happening? Someone suggested if I had access to my /tmp folder and I don't see that, not even in my root. Both web hosts are Unix based.
Thank you!
This is the error I'm constantly getting:
"You cannot download or install new packages because the Packages directory or one of the files in it are not writable!
But everything is writable, all files triple-checked and CHMODed correctly.
just a thought, but maybe your giving too much permission?
I'm only giving the permissions as explained in the SMF docs. Nothing more.
I have other SMF boards that work fine, but for some reason on the 2 webhosts I mentioned, the Package Manager is not working and giving the error I shared.
Bummer.
Thanks.
Mark
Hi
I get the error:
You cannot download or install new packages because the Packages directory or one of the files in it are not writable!
but I have chmod'd 777 -R the Packages directory
any ideas?
cheers
Mark
You also need to adjust permissions for the files in it, namely installed.list and server.list (1.0.x only).
I managed to get it to work:
I work on a virtual server, and I changed the Package manager to use the virtual server root user, not the website root user
hope this helps
Mark
Lainaus käyttäjältä: mark fresh - heinäkuu 12, 2006, 11:45:48 AP
I managed to get it to work:
I work on a virtual server, and I changed the Package manager to use the virtual server root user, not the website root user
hope this helps
Mark
DO you mind explaining a bit how exactly can I accomplish that? I had this problem as well but my host (running Linux) took care of the problem. To this date I still don't know what he did.
OK, I have a virtual server that I have admin rights to. The Virtual Server company* has the root rights to the server but for all intents and purposes my admin is my root. I set up a virtual host and point a domain at it's folder, the folder is owned by 'user x' who can FTP to it and all the basics.
For some reason, I had to give the package manger the admin details for it to work, I guess 'user x' didn't have the right permissions. Anyway it worked.
I hope that helps
*DSVR http://www.dsvr.co.uk (http://www.dsvr.co.uk)